Addressing the TB screening, prevention and treatment needs of people living with HIV in the era of COVID-19

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
programme committee member for AIDS 2006,
AIDS 2010 and plenary speaker at AIDS2008. He
was a member of the Conference Coordinating
Committee for IAS2017 and AIDS2018.

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
(TAG).

Anton Pozniak is a Consultant Physician at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital , Honorary Professor (Clinical Research) at the LSHTM..

He is President of the European AIDS Trial Network NEAT ID.and Principal Investigator for a Test and Treat project in Tanzania.

He is a Guidelines panel member of the European AIDS Clinical Society, the BHIVA anti-viral HIV guidelines. He chairs the TB/HIV guidelines committee.

and  DSMB chair for MRC and PENTA HIV pediatric and adolescent studies.

He was President of the International AIDS Society from 2018-2020.

.He is on the board of the Charity CUAMM UK.

 

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
South Africa, but also coordinating various other
emergency responses. He has also supported various
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.

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.

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
TB activities in Eswatini and Vietnam. Her work also
focuses on TB infection among migrants and TB
preventative therapy among persons living with HIV.

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,
Senior Investigator and co-Lead of the Men’s Health
Division at the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation at
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.

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
Committee of Women 4 Global Fund. More
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.