Dr. Namwinga Chintu MD, MMed, MTrop Paed

Consultancy Role to support country level increased uptake of Technical Assistance for Combination HIV Prevention

Eligible Countries Bangladesh, Pakistan, the Philippines, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Jamaica, Guyana, Cameroon, Mali, Angola, South Sudan, Ghana)

Responsibilities

• Designed mechanisms for 11 countries identify and develop Technical Assistance that addresses most critical HIV prevention gaps, catalyzing access to prevention services, sustainability and acceleration of GC7 implementation
• In Eligible countries supported development of 11 catalytic technical assistance areas covering PrEP scale up ( including Long Acting PrEP, review of National HIV Prevention polices and strategies, HIV Prevention national assessments gap analysis and time bound work plans, HIV Prevention and sustainability road maps, strengthening community structure for HIV amongst others. More than 40 high country level follow up activities for HIV prevention were identified an catalyzed including High level meetings to commit to prioritizing HIV Prevention, National and Global Fund Investments.
• Serve as liaison between UNAIDS Global Center, UNAIDS Regional Support Team and UNAIDS Country Offices to insure effective implementation provide support for global strategies to translated at country level through effective technical assistance proposals that link to catalyzing Global Fund investments
• Core team member responsible for shaping and co-developing a renewed UNAIDS Global HIV Prevention Campaign Strategy and roadmap galvanizing and leveraging global and country partnerships to a call to action to reignite HIV prevention efforts.
• Member of WHO/ UNAIDS joint HIV prevention team driving global HIV prevention agenda and Global Aids Targets for 2030.
• Coordinate UNAIDS Country Offices, Global Fund recipients, USAID to support and accelerate implementation of HIV prevention activities to contribute towards achievement of the 95% prevention target in the Global AIDS Strategy and ensure equitable access to HIV Prevention
• UNAIDS focal Point for Global Fund Geneva HIV prevention team on TADG
• Provide expertise to the oversight and review of country-level technical assistance , identifying the most critical areas for collaboration under Global Fund grants with specialised organizations in the area of HIV prevention particularly around key populations fostering private public partnerships.
• Manage the relationship with other technical support providers under the Technical Assistant mechanism matching technical support needs of PRs/SRs/SSRs with the providers in collaboration with UNAIDS Technical Support Mechanism
• Curates and provides relevant technical resources on HIV prevention to countries and ensures dissemination to partners receiving support for GC7 prevention HIV activities through TADG
• Contribute and review of specific components UNAIDS Global AIDS Monitoring Report
• Analysis of Global Prevention Coalition Data and Global HIV/AIDS Monitoring to identify country level HIV prevention gaps and potential Technical Assistance areas and best practices to inform acceleration of implementation of HIV prevention at country level
• Aligned regional teams on best practices and standard operating procedures, driving consistency across all geographies.
• Oversaw budget planning and financial tracking for worldwide initiatives, maintaining fiscal responsibility throughout all stages of project execution.

Global Coordinator Global Fund Condom Strategic Initiative-Program Adviser (Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Zambia )
Department Program Innovation Prevention Treatment and Pediatrics
Responsibilities
Coordination and Partnerships
• Coordinate principally with the Global Fund, UNFPA, UNAIDS, PEPFAR, WHO, Global HIV Prevention Coalition, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the South to South Learning Network to build capacity in new generation comprehensive HIV prevention integration and condom programming.
• Coordinator Global HIV prevention and Condom Technical Working Group that drives global prevention agenda around condom programming. Global stakeholders include PEPFAR, UNFPA, WHO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, NGO’s and Civil Society.
• Conducted Stakeholder mapping and coordination for increased investments in condom programming.
• As part the Global Prevention Coalition Secretariate (GPC), identify Technical Assistance needs of 33 highest HIV burden GPC countries,

• Developed guidance documents and tools such as Global Prevention Road Maps, Condom Needs Estimation Tool user guide and other guidance to accelerate country actions and investments to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.
• Build partnerships with high level government stakeholder’s to ensure strong country applications to the Global Fund and support increased domestic financing in relation to HIV prevention particularly for key populations.
  • Member of combined UNAIDS/WHO Headquarters HIV prevention group to strengthen and streamline collaboration.
  • Review Global Fund Country Funding requests from Global Prevention Coalition countries.
  • Provided Technical Support to eligible countries to develop and implement HIV Prevention Roadmaps
  • Support integration of HIV prevention and condom programming within and across 4 primary pillars of 2025 prevention Strategic Initiative countries and GPC countries.
  • Participate and contribute as needed to Global Fund Situation Room that guides Global Funds HIV Prevention agenda.
  • Provide strategic input to UNAIDS Program Coordination Board and to UNAIDS Executive Directors Office as requested.

Knowledge Management and Analytics

• Participate in reviewing and providing input to UNAIDS Global AIDS Monitoring report.
• Curated a catalog of technical resources on condom programming and related HIV prevention programming and ensures dissemination to partners in the Strategic Initiative
• Ensured availability and access of up-to-date technical resources to other countries through the Global Prevention Coalition partnership web site and networks.
• Collaborate with other members of the UNAIDS HIV Prevention Team, Global Fund and UNFPA, FHI 360, and others in disseminating good practices identified through the Strategic Initiative.
• Developed and managed Satellite Session at International Conference on AIDS and STI’s showcasing lessons learned from condom strategic Initiative

Program and Team Management
• Operationalize Condom Strategic Initiative a USD 4.2 million investment for improvement of condom programming in focus countries.
• Lead and build a strong team spread across 4 countries and two organizations through UN-UN agreement between UNAIDS and UNFPA
• Submit reporting requirements to Global Fund, International Steering committee and Global Fund Situation room
• Identified 44 technical assistance areas in 4 target countries that resulted in 60-70% increase in condom investments in across 4 countries and increase in domestic finances allocated to HIV Prevention
• Grants Planning Analytics and Reporting

• Grow and support a network of partners and senior leaders across Africa committed to women’s leadership and gender equality in health
• Successfully established WomenLift Health East Africa Hub in Nairobi, Kenya covering Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania
• Coordinated and led International Conference on AIDS and STI Satellite Session 2021- "A Gendered approach to ending AIDS in Africa"
• Spearhead engagement with African institutions, and high-level political engagement with UN Women and other stakeholders engaged in women leadership and Diversity Equity and Inclusion to increase women’s leadership in health globally
• Lead Partners to expand the voice and influence of African women leaders in health, to catalyze systemic change in organizations and support a movement around women's leadership in health
• Built and supported a Pan-African Leadership Council composed of senior leaders in different sectors (public, private, NGO) across the continent
• Working with the CEO, Board Members and other advisors, led efforts to identify and negotiate agreements with institutional partners that will support the WomenLift Health strategy and activities in the target geographies beginning with East Africa and expanding to Southern Africa and West Africa
• Independently lead efforts to integrate women’s leadership topics and speakers in planned African conferences and meetings
• Co-develop curriculum of Women Leadership Journey designed to provide talented mid-career women leaders in health a platform to expand the power and influence of talented women in Global health
• Cultivated high-performing teams by implementing leadership development programs.
• Enhanced team collaboration through regular communication, goal setting, and performance evaluations.
• Managed budgets effectively to ensure optimal use of resources while maintaining financial stability.
• Facilitated cross-functional collaboration for improved decision-making processes within the organization.
• Leveraged professional networks and industry knowledge to strengthen client relationships.
• Built a strong professional network by attending and presenting at global health conferences, fostering collaboration among practitioners in the field.

Covered Malawi, Uganda, Rwanda and Zambia)

Responsibilities

• Successfully led countries teams to participate effectively in national Technical Working Groups conversations on SRHR and capacity building across 4 focus countries
• Identified and developed SRH leadership capacity amongst impactful organisations through building capacity to lead and drive SRH programs at sub national and national level
• Built relationships with organisations working on SRHR in GHC’s operating countries, specifically focusing on organisation leadership and technical skills where needed in collaboration with the GHC Country Team in each country
• Support coordination of high-level advocacy meetings for the advancement of SRHR particularly amongst adolescents in focus countries
• Work with Global GHC Knowledge management to document and disseminate lessons learned in capacity building for leadership in SRH nationally and globally
• Donor management, communications, monitoring and resource engagement

Total annual Funding USD 27,000,000

• Reports to Vice President and Regional Director Southern Africa, PSI headquarters
• Maximal staff complement 406, expatriate staff 5
• Supervised entire country platform including Project Directors, Chiefs of Party to implement large scale Family planning and HIV prevention programs reaching youth and adolescent girls and young women

Strategic Responsibilities

• Set organizational goals and priorities .Led development 3 year organizational strategic plan through internal consensus building and stakeholder engagement
• Lead and drive organization's Senior management team to, identify funding opportunities, mitigate program risks and develop policies that support engaged, highly motivated and satisfied staff
• Primary liaison between PSI/SFH and Zambian Government relevant stakeholders, multinationals and donors
• From global strategy develop and translate country level strategies that are relevant and impactful in HIV and reproductive health
• In regional PSI Anglo African space drive agenda that ensures relevance, effectiveness of programs and replication of best practices that put communities and vulnerable populations at the center of programs
• Participate in global HIV and reproductive health agenda by leading research that advocates for policy change
• Speak, lead and coordinate international and national dissemination meetings
• Lead and co-develop agendas for National and International Technical working groups on HIV prevention and reproductive health
• These include HIV self-testing consortium, Zambia, Zimbabwe South Africa, VMMC consortium and research advisory group, Scale up of DMPA-SC advisory group
• Lead the Leadership Team of 8 Departmental Directors to set priorities achieve goals to remain a relevant national and international partner and organization
• Identify key priority areas including new program areas funding opportunities to match as well as participate and lead proposal writing
• Engage and coordinate PSI Zambia Board of Directors
• Prepare board and audit reports
• Global Fund Country Coordinating Mechanism member representing NGO’s
• Program Leadership Representation and Technical Support
• Provide technical and strategic oversight to 4 health service delivery projects across Zambia in Maternal health, HIV prevention and sexual reproductive health in the Zambian public sector as an implementing partner to the Zambian government
• Designed operational Research in HIV Self Testing, VMMC and SRHR that generated evidence to inform international technical working groups
• Adapt WHO guidelines to local country context and translate policy into practice
• Support Development of national scale up plans
• Identify and develop research including publications of peer reviewed articles around combination prevention Family planning and reproductive health including capacity building in these areas
• Innovation and new business development- Identify areas for new innovations related to implementation of young girls and women, maternal child/ sexual reproductive health combination prevention activities
• Ensure that SFH/PSI remain innovative and relevant partners in HIV prevention and reproductive health in Zambia
• Lead writing of innovative proposals to ensure programs remain sustainable
• Provide technical guidance to global proposal writing teams program implementation, evaluation and research and program evaluation teams
• Including participation on National and international technical working groups
• Resource mobilization

Achievements Highlights

• Raised $ 30,000,000 of which approximately $ 11 million was unrestricted in funding Developed and designed sub regional best practices for VMMC demand generation (Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa) using human centered design approaches and community engagement that increase circumcision among most vulnerable groups
• Key lead in the design and initiation of the HIV Self testing in Africa multi country project- Initially implemented in Zambia, Malawi and Zimbabwe with Zambia leading as flag ship program that has made testing more widely available in Africa in particular to young men where there is a testing gap
• Advocated for updating of Zambia’s national guidelines to include HIVST and participated in forecasting for HIVST and its inclusion in PEPFAR Country operating plan
• Critical international member of steering group member responsible for development and finalisation of global WHO guidelines for HIV self-Testing. HIV self-testing now available in more than 40 countries globally.
• Advocated for change in policy for community health workers to administer injectable contraception in Zambia
• Led project that increased modern contraceptive prevalence rate by over 3% per annum in resource poor settings in Zambia
• Key member in forecasting for HIV and family planning commodities
• Advocated for introduction and use of 3rd generation female condom for use amongst young women in Zambia as a female initiated and led contraceptive method
• List of Peer reviewed publications attached *

Management of Financial Resources

• Primary signatory for all financial agreements and grants between SFH and donors
• Funders include US Government, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, US Department of Defense
• UK Department for International Development (DIFD), and Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) amongst others
• Responsible for overseeing Finance Department and that the environment is conducive to implement fiscal responsibilities and requirements
• Signatory on organizations audited reports
• Review all budgets organization wide and plan re budgets or realignments in collaboration with program and finance staff when need arises
• Administrative supervision of the Internal Audit Department
• Elevated brand awareness via impactful public speaking engagements at conferences and other events related to the organization's area of focus.
• Managed budgetary resources efficiently to ensure optimal allocation of funds for program activities and objectives.
• Efficiently managed multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining quality standards set forth by the organization.
• Adapted global initiatives to local contexts, ensuring cultural sensitivity and relevance in all programming efforts.
• Led a diverse team of professionals in executing projects aimed at addressing key community needs and priorities.
• Leveraged partnerships with governmental agencies for greater policy influence on issues relevant to the organization''s mission.

Chief of Party Partnership for Integrated Social Marketing and Country Representative: USD 63 million 5-year project

Responsibilities

Provide programmatic and administrative oversight

Of a large service delivery and social marketing project focusing on delivery of nationwide services to improve youth access to HIV prevention, maternal reproductive and child health. Project services included Voluntary Male Medical Circumcision, HIV counseling and testing, distribution and marketing of male and female condoms

Responsibilities

• Support uninterrupted provision of family planning services through use of dedicated family planning providers, provide over 40,000 women per year with long acting reversible contraceptives
• Build capacity of public and private sector through training to deliver family planning services
• Prevent maternal mortality through training and distribution of misoprostol post-partum and post abortion to prevent haemorrhage
• Use of Social Marketing and Human Centered design approaches to prevention childhood diarrhoea and mortality through marketing and distribution of water purification and SRHR products
• National training of health care providers to scale up screening for cervical cancer and integration of Cervical cancer screening in HIV and primary care clinics
• HIV testing and counselling of 250,000 individuals a year across SFH sites and public health facilities in 10 provinces of Zambia
• National training of health care providers to scale up screening for cervical cancer and intergartion of Cervical cancer screening in HIV and primary care clinics
• Sale and distribution of over 25 million male condoms per year and over 300,000 female condoms
• Male Circumcision- Responsible for over 300,000 male circumcisions.A contribution of 60% towards national numbers

Administrative and strategic Responsibilities

• Primary liaison between local USAID and PSI/SFH
• Program design implementation and evaluation
• Provision of fiscal oversight
• Management Total work force 400 employees
• Responsible for engagement and supervision of key personnel

Achievements

• Developed innovative social marketing strategies targeted at youth, couples, mothers and young women to improve uptake of services within communities and through franchise driven private sector models.

Centre for Infectious Disease Research In Zambia (CIDRZ)

Total CIDRZ annual funding USD 35,000,000

Reports Directly to Director/ Chief Executive OfficerStaff compliment 900

Expatriates 36

Responsibilities

• Strategic Direction
• Set goals and priorities for CIDRZ as implementers of large-scale programs and research to fulfill its aims and objectives and remains an important global and national influencer developing replicable and relevant strategies to end AIDS
• Lead and manage culturally diverse Senior Leadership Team and programmatic teams in supportive environment that encouraged collaboration and innovation
• Engage with international donors, stakeholders and multilaterals and the Zambian Ministry of Health at highest level to support national plans in the areas of Maternal and Child Health, Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis Primary Care
• Resource mobilization submission of innovative proposals
• Develop Request for Proposals and manage subawardees
• Collaborate with key stake holders UNICEF, UNAIDS, DFID, UNFPA and implementing partners to ensure efficient use of funds through cross cutting activities
• Actively engaged in PEPFAR COP processes and providing evidence to guide Zambis’s COP
• Programmatic Leadership and Representation
• Principal liaison and advisor to the Ministry of Health in area’s related to the reduction of MDG’s; particularly 4,5 and 6 in Zambia
• Principal liaison with International donors particularly where I served as principal investigator
• Principal Investigator responsible for research development and engagement of international institutions to foster multicounty research
• Representation of research findings at global and national fora
• Support development of policies (ART, PMTCT HIV testing, TB) through ensuring strategic CIDRZon all key Ministry of Health Technical Working Groups responsible for policy development and guidance
• Participate in global technical working groups to influence the global HIV and Maternal Child Health and SRHR agenda
• Through careful and deliberate collection of programmatic data, engage regional and International stakeholders on innovate ways to improve health outcomes and identify areas requiring health systems strengthening
• Provide strategic technical direction to ART, PMTCT, TB, Primary care and Research departments. Technical directors were direct reports
• Provide strategic oversight and guidance to the Zambia AIDS Clinical Trial Group site and the ACTG 5221 -Timing of antiretroviral therapy for HIV-1 infection and tuberculosis
• Provide technical assistance at a global level through participating as a technical consultant and advisor to WHO, UNICEF and to participate in global learning and experience sharing through participating as a key note speaker at several reknown international conferences (see conference attended/ Key note speeches)

Management of financial resources

• Primary signatory for all financial agreements between CIDRZ and donor organizations
• Additionally, responsible for ensuring that CIDRZ Grants and Finance Department is equipped to manage and execute its fiscal responsibilities
• CIDRZ receives over USD 35 million in grants from multiple sources including US Government (PEPFAR, CDC, NIH,) private funders Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Absolute Return for Kids and Multilaterals such as World Health Organization
• Responsible for administrative oversight of the Internal Audit Department and ensuring that audit queries are addressed by responsible departments/ managers
• Principal Investigator and therefore directly responsible for the programmatic and financial management of USD11.3 million per year 5 year PEPFAR funded “ Implementation of Programs to Improve the Prevention of Mother to child Transmission; the Care and Treatment of HIV and AIDS in Eastern, Lusaka, and western provinces of the Republic of Zambia Grant number CH11-1117
• This included support of TB diagnostics and screening - This program was responsible for over 350,000 adults enrolled into care and treatment, - Laboratory support: PCR testing for early infant diagnosis, CD4 testing, Viral load testing and monitoring, TB screening diagnostics including MGIT
• This grant contributed to roll out of Zambia’s first program to screen and treat cervical cancer the Cervical Cancer Prevention program which also now included HPV vaccine in girls
• Responsible for the oversight of a USD 2.6 million Saving Mothers Life initiative funded by President Obama’s Global Health Initiative to reduce maternal mortality and improve overall maternal reproductive health in 2 districts of Zambia

Achievements

• Pioneer of community led interventions for adherence and loss to follow up
• Demonstrated feasibility of good outcomes for largescale programs that placed adults and children on ART. Results presented at CROI
• Integral in policy change for removal of D4T from ART regimen
• Influence global PMTCT and ART agenda through participation on expert panels and international steering committees

• Responsibilities
• Participate in pediatric infectious diseases research (see publications)
• Improve and contribute to clinical care of pediatric patients through fostering collaborations between the University of Zambia, University of Alabama and Primary care clinics’ in the Lusaka Urban District
• Lecturer in international health and pediatrics and child health when in residence at UAB

• Lecturing and mentoring of undergraduate and postgraduate students both in the clinical and research fields
• Pediatrician at the CDC centre of Excellence in Peadiatric HIV care Lusaka Zambia

• Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ)
• Total grant USD 3,000,000 per year
• Responsibilities
• Country coordinator responsible for implementation and rapid scale up of Government supported PMTCT sites
• The program currently supported over 360 sites and cumulatively more than 800,000 pregnant women have been tested for HIV and approximately 70,000 women have received ARV’s for PMTCT prophylaxis since between 2001 and 2011
• Prepared innovative country operating plans that extended beyond counseling and testing and provision of ARV’s to infant feeding and follow up care
• Created sustainable systems linking PMTCT mothers and exposed infants to continued care treatment and infant feeding (including scale up of point of care CD4 count and PCR for early infant diagnosis)
• Participated in operational research on PMTCT and Pediatric ART
• Piloted TB screening in PMTCT settings
• Scaled up provider-initiated counseling and testing in both in and outpatient settings
• Facilitated scale up of pediatric ART services (currently supporting in excess of 50 pediatric sites) and strengthening continuum of care for the HIV exposed infant
• Provide technical expertise in peadiatric and child health including infant feeding both in clinical and research fields
• Participated in provision of clinical mentorship at pediatric ART sites
• Provided technical support to The Zambian Ministry of Health
• Advocated and collaborated with government and NGO’s (CDC UNICEF Global Aids program offices, EGPAF, PATH, Zambia National Food and Commission Nutrition) to scale up more efficacious PMTCT regimen and to formulate and implement Zambia’ Infant and Young Child Feeding Strategy
• Managed PMTCT funds received from CDC EGPAF and other grants
• Solicited and apply for of grants outside USG funding to supplement PMTCT program funding particularly in and around community sensitization related to linking PMTCT to follow up care
• As a member of the Leadership Team of CIDRZ, contributed to the strategic direction of the organization as well as advise the Director on a variety of issues pertaining to the general goals of CIDRZ

• USD 100,000 (Primary and, in proposal development)
• This grant focused on the training of health care providers and strengthening systems to support continuum of care for HIV Exposed Infants including infant feeding
• The grant funded 8 clinics
• Validating Rapid Syphilis Testing for Prevention of Mother-to-Child Prevention of HIV Programmes; Multi-country Pilot: Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, (Zambian, PI) 2007, 2009 USD 50,000 per year( primary and Technical Lead Zambia)
• In collaboration with the Sexually Transmitted Diseases Diagnostic unit of WHO and Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, this study will test the hypothesis that the introduction of rapid syphilis testing with rapid HIV testing is feasible for HIV programs, is cost effective and will improve the identification and treatment of syphilis in pregnant women
• This pilot will also explore the results of adding a rapid syphilis test to the package of PMTCT services on uptake of HIV testing for both pregnant women and their male partners

• Expert management of childhood illnesses
• Other Relevant Information
• Participated in Global Funds Global HIV Situation Room 2022-2024
• As Global Prevention Coalition Secretariate convened and coordinated Global Condom Technical working Group