IBE-Africa: Making Epilepsy a Health Priority in Africa - WHA Resolution 68:20

Youth with Epilepsy across Africa Speak Out!

20 October 2020,  14:00 - 15:00 Eastern African Time

 

Call on Health Ministers to support WHA Resolution 68:20 on epilepsy Speaker: Her Excellency Dr Joyce Banda, Former President of Malawi International Bureau for Epilepsy Africa Ambassador
Call on Health Ministers to support WHA Resolution 68:20 on epilepsy Speaker: Her Excellency Dr Joyce Banda, Former President of Malawi International Bureau for Epilepsy Africa Ambassador

Flyer - IBE-Africa Webinar: Making Epilepsy a Health Priority in Africa - 20 October 2020

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Program

Key Note Address:
Why are governments in Africa turning a blind eye on epilepsy?
Speaker: Dr Wawa Wamundila Disability Rights Watch Africa
Zambian Human Rights Commission

Golden Light towards the WHA Resolution 68:20
Speaker: Ms Nina Mago
IBE Golden Light Award Winner Purple Bench Uganda

Putting the WHA Resolution 68:20 on Mt Kilimanjaro
Speaker: Mr Frederick Beuchi Epilepsy Lives Matter, Kenya

Panel Discussion (30 mins): Why the Global Epilepsy Plan matters for Youths with Epilepsy in Africa?
Moderator: Comfort Mussa, Cameroon, IBE Epilepsy Journalise Award Winner 2014

Petition (20 mins): Youths with Epilepsy Petition to 24 Ministers of Health and Parliamentary Health
Committees in Africa to support the World Health Assembly (WHA) Resolution 68:20

IBE-Africa Region

The International Bureau of Epilepsy Africa Region (IBE Africa) with 26 chapters in the region has two projects currently running, supported by the BAND Foundation
Promising Strategies Program and Making Epilepsy a Health Priority in Africa

Visit our website: www.epilepsyafrica.org