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Keneilwe Lynette Mabote has been a TB Advocate for over a decade, working in Africa, Latin America and South-East Asia. She has a legal background with an LLM in Intellectual Property. Lynette lives and breathes community engagement and grass-roots advocacy strengthening and is currently a part-time Consultant and the Global Advocacy Advisor for the Treatment Action Group Lynette Mabote, Consultant (TAG). and the Global Advocacy Advisor for the Treatment Action Group (TAG), USA
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Dr. Anton Pozniak is a Consultant Physician in HIV Medicine at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and Professor in the Department of Clinical Research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine UK. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1996 and a life member of the British HIV Association in 2014. He is the Immediate Past President of the International AIDS Society and has served as Track B Anton Pozniak, Chelsea and programme committee member for AIDS 2006, Westminster Hospital, UK & IAS AIDS 2010 and plenary speaker at AIDS2008. He Immediate Past President, Switzerland was a member of the Conference Coordinating Committee for IAS2017 and AIDS2018.
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Gilles Van Cutsem is a humanitarian medical doctor and epidemiologist who currently serves as a senior HIV & TB Adviser and International AIDS Working Group Lead for Médecins Sans Frontières’s Southern African Medical Unit and as an Honorary Research Associate at the Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research of the University of Cape Town. His work with Doctors without Borders (MSF) in sub-Saharan Africa spans over two decades, most of it caring for people with HIV and TB in Gilles Van Cutsem, South Africa, but also coordinating various other Doctors Without Borders, emergency responses. He has also supported various South Africa MSF activities on COVID-19 in South Africa. He holds a Medical Doctor degree from the University of Louvain, a Diploma of Tropical Medicine from the Institute for Tropical Medicine in Antwerp and a Masters in Public Health and Epidemiology from the University of Cape Town.
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James Malar works for the UN hosted Stop TB Partnership in Geneva. He works in the Country and Community Support for Impact Team where he leads on human rights and community engagement.
James Malar, Stop TB Partnership, Switzerland
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Dr Cuc H. Tran, Epidemiologist at Division of Global HIV & TB, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), United States. She has over ten years of public health training and experience in tuberculosis, influenza, rabies, Zika, and STIs. Over the course of her career, she has obtained a total of $2.2 million of funding and worked in seven countries. Currently, she is the point of contact for Cuc H. Tran, Centers for TB activities in Eswatini and Vietnam. Her work also Disease Control and focuses on TB infection among migrants and TB Prevention (CDC), USA preventative therapy among persons living with HIV.
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Dr. Medina-Marino is a public health researcher, with a particular interest and growing research portfolio focused on Men’s Health in the context of TB, HIV and mental health. He received his PhD in from the California Institute of Technology and is currently completing his MPH in Epidemiology at the University of Cape Town. He is Head of Research for the Foundation for Professional Development, Andrew Medina-Marino, Senior Investigator and co-Lead of the Men’s Health Desmond Tutu Health Division at the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation at Foundation, South Africa the University of Cape Town, and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania. Prior to moving to South Africa, Dr. Medina-Marino was an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer for U.S. CDC.
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Maurine Murenga is a passionate advocate for the health, development and human rights of women and girls living with HIV and affected by TB from Kenya. Driven by her lived experience, Maurine founded the Lean on Me Foundation. Maurine is a former Board Member of the Communities Delegation on the Board of the Global Fund, represents communities on the TB Stakeholders Association of TB Alliance and chairs the Steering Maurine Murenga, TB Committee of Women 4 Global Fund. More Women, Kenya recently, Maurine co-founded TBWomen, the global network of women in all their diversity who are affected by TB and are working toward a gender transformative TB response.
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Additional resources: Turning threats into opportunities: how to implement and advance quality TB services for people with HIV during the COVID‐19 pandemic and beyond: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jia2.25696 @iasociety /iasociety @iasociety [email protected]