Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje is a Health-System-and-Development Projects planning, implementation/management and monitoring/evaluation consultant, Researcher, Change Agent/Advocate and Writer in Public-Private Partnership (PPP), HIV/AIDS, Health Sector Reforms, Blindness Prevention, Nutrition, Aging, Policy Analyses and Pro-poor concerns. His projects and dozens of publications include Public-Private Partnerships For Sustainable Community-Based HIV/Aids Advocacy; Public-Private Partnership and Nigeria's Development; HIV/AIDS Care: beyond ARVs & advocacy; The Poverty War in Nigeria; Nigeria’s Economic Reforms in Social Context; Health & Human Rights; The Global Fund & HIV/AIDS Control in Nigeria; Preventable Blindness & National Economic Productivity; Diabetes on the Prowl; Approaches to Reduce Vitamin A Deficiency in Lagos; Alzheimer’s Disease on Our Shores; African Woman’s Rough Road; NEPAD: hope or hype?; Averting a Water Crisis in Nigeria; etc. Ever active in some health and development forums, Uzo’ is Projects/Programs Director & Trustee, Afrihealth (Inc. NGO); Member, International Advisory Board, AIDSCare Watch; Key Correspondent, Health and Development Networks; Columnist, Daily Sun newspaper; Founder/Moderator, ICASA 2005 Forum; Trustee, Future Hope Community Project, Imo State; President General, Imo State Towns Development Association Lagos; President, ISTDA Cooperative, Thrift & Credit Society Ltd Lagos; etc. He was Conference Coordinator and later Secretary, National Steering Committee, Nigerian National Health Conference 2006; National Consultant to UNAIDS/ILO/UNDP on ‘Public Private Partnership and HIV/AIDS in Nigeria’; Programs Manager, 14th International Conference on AIDS & STIs in Africa (ICASA 2005); and Clinical Services Director, Adirivision Clinics Ltd. His contributions are in the media/Internet, and etc. CV: http://www.iaen.org/pronet/index.php?view=detail&id=15113