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Good to be here. I am Dr Mrs Igbokwe from Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria.

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Hello everyone, Adaora Isabella ANYICHIE - Odis, PhD Public Health student. I a connecting form Lagos, Nigeria

Hello everyone. Glad to be here. Deguene Fall, Regional Gender Advisor, UNICEF Regional Office for West & Central Africa, based in Dakar.

Great to hear from all the panelist. Hirut from Chemonics International

Hello all, I am Charles Maas, MD, MPH, a pediatrician from Sacramento, California.

Hello everyone, Glad to be here. Oluwafunke Dosumu - Founder DCENTURYVIBES GLOBAL INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION. (A voice of the century). Abuja, Nigeria.

@ Marie Ba. Very well said. Thank you for reminding us the importance of language diversity as well.

Yes Prudence, the positive change starts from you and i

Pregnant women should also be supported in their work places and then pregnant women shouldn't be denied jobs because they are pregnant. Pregnancy is not a diseases.

Thank you Karna

Exactly Lia, we have reclibrated to virtual meetings. It saves cost, time and the planet.

So true

@Adaora Anyichie

Thank you Dr Lia

Thank you!

Yes family planning is complication due to diversity of our religions for Catholics and Muslims. Merci Marie.

Thank you @Fredrick for raising the importance of designing interventions focussed on inclusive health services with strengthening the capacity of health care workers. What is the preferred approach with improving inclusive health services for other underserved populations including pregnant unmarried adolescents and transactional sex workers?

Thank you Fredrick for your insight. Here in Lagos Nigeria most buildings do not have means for people in Wheel chair to enter places like Hospitals, Churches, Offices, hotels etc in their wheel chair. Then women in wheel chairs are abused too...very sad.

Information is powerEquality in Health Care is important even to the disabledAdvocacy for enforcement of laws that promote disability inclusion.Thank you Fredrick

@Marie Ba. Thank you very much for your excellent insights and for bringing the perspective of some francophone countries. I hope you will be able to speak in French in the next summit and there will be simultaneous translation to the main working languages of the continent.

Collaboration is key.

In the next meeting lets also consider having sign language interpreter to at least have inclusivity

Fully agree on the sign language interpretation. Thank you for raising it.

Merci Fidelia. Une traduction de ma reponse a la 1ere question

Lorsque nous parlons de diversité et de solidarité en matière de santé, je considère l’accès à des soins de santé et à des informations de qualité comme un droit de l’homme, qui ne devrait donc pas dépendre de l’économie, du sexe, de l’âge, des croyances religieuses ou d’autres circonstances sociales. Lorsque nous parlons de diversité, nous parlons de construire notre voix collective et d'apprendre où et comment partager cette voix - ce pouvoir - pour le plus grand bénéfice.- Il est donc important, je pense, de reconnaître que notre table s’est agrandie et diversifiée, mais beaucoup plus peut et doit être fait. Je pense que des forums comme ceux-ci visent à s'attaquer là où nous échouons. Nous devons apprendre des jeunes femmes et hommes et les inclure à notre table non pas en tant que représentants ou symboles

mais en tant que véritables partenaires. N'oublions pas d'avoir des hommes et des garçons également autour de la table. Faire de ce problème une question réservée aux femmes est parfois un mauvais service à la cause et nous avons besoin de l'adhésion de toutes les parties.- Il existe également un besoin de diversité et de solidarité dans le domaine de la santé mondiale pour permettre à des voix plus authentiques de mener des conversations en tant que vecteurs et facilitateurs. Les femmes et les filles devraient pouvoir regarder de l'autre côté de la table et voir des gens qui les regardent vraiment et qui les regardent vraiment, leur ressemblent et surtout comprennent leurs expériences.Il nous faut egalement prendre en compte la langue qui peut representer une barriere et qui exclu des pays et experiences de representants francophones qui ont leur mot egalement a dire et d'importantes contributions a faire

@Traci Thank you for raising the importance in having diversity and inclusion in leadership, strong point

Thank you TraciRepresentation matters

Thank you Traci

Many thanks to all the Panelists and to the Moderator. It was great session and it is a pleasure to meet you all virtually and to learn from you. Thank you Minister Lia for honoring us with your presence and contributions.@ Marie Ba: you are an AMAZING ROLE MODEL from Francophone Africa in particular. Thank you for standing for us.

Thanks to all the panelists and thank you Traci

I've learnt a lot

Thank you to all the panelists. This conversation is very critical especially at this time. I am so happy that you all brought various aspects of diversity to the discussion. Amina Aminu Dorayi, Country Director Pathfinder International. Nigeria

Many thanks to all the Panelists and Traci!!!!

I'm challenged

Thank you so much, this was invaluable!