From freeze to forward: Ensuring HIV commodity access and service delivery in a changing funding landscape

Solange Baptiste is Executive Director of ITPC. She leads community activists and allies across the globe to deliver on ITPC’s mission to enable people in need to access optimal and affordable HIV treatment through education, demand creation, community-led monitoring and interventions to make medicines more affordable. Solange has over 15 years of global programme management and advocacy experience and specializes in monitoring and evaluation. She has a depth of knowledge in social epidemiology, health financing and community systems strengthening through her work on USAID and PEPFAR health and development and other bilateral and multi-country initiatives across Africa and Asia. She earned a Bachelor of Science in biology from Tuskegee University and her Master of Science in population and international health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Solange is committed to ensuring that the voice of affected communities contributes to and influences the decisions and policies that affect their lives.

Solange Baptiste is Executive Director of ITPC. She leads community activists and allies across the globe to deliver on ITPC’s mission to enable people in need to access optimal and affordable HIV treatment through education, demand creation, community-led monitoring and interventions to make medicines more affordable. Solange has over 15 years of global programme management and advocacy experience and specializes in monitoring and evaluation. She has a depth of knowledge in social epidemiology, health financing and community systems strengthening through her work on USAID and PEPFAR health and development and other bilateral and multi-country initiatives across Africa and Asia. She earned a Bachelor of Science in biology from Tuskegee University and her Master of Science in population and international health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Solange is committed to ensuring that the voice of affected communities contributes to and influences the decisions and policies that affect their lives.

 Tione Chilambe has 25 years  in the public health systems development and Management. She is currently the  Head of Coordination and Capacity Building at the National AIDS Commission. Her work focuses on Public Health programs design, implementation and financing. She is responsible for coordination at National level as well as sub-national decentralized community systems, multisectoral partnerships and capacity building for interventions  which include Community Led Monitoring (CLM), Systems integration, AGYW, PLHIV sectoral coordination and other multi-sectoral efforts.  She comes with a global understanding of health with an added advantage of having worked in both in global south as well as north.    She holds a Bachelors of Social Science (Econs) from the University of Malawi, Chancellor College and  a Masters in Public Health (Global Health) from the Boston University’s School of Public Health.

Fellow of British Broadcasters in Sustainable Development Communication and a health advocate with a master's in development Communication, covering over 30 years’ experience in development journalism and broadcasting across the globe.

Currently serving as Executive Director of the Network of Journalists Living with HIV (JONEHA), which he founded in 2013. The vision of JONEHA is to be an effective media advocate for quality health services, while its mission is to ensure access to quality health care services for all. JONEHA accomplishes this by mobilizing and empowering journalists and their audiences to engage duty bearers based on evidence generated through data collection, analysis, and advocacy. JONEHA utilizes Community-led monitoring and media products as tools for identifying issues affecting quality health service delivery, thereby facilitating advocacy.

As an accomplished development journalist, health advocate, and pioneer of many initiatives affecting the lives of marginalized communities, including the establishment of the first Development Broadcasting Unit in Malawi using the development through radio approach. He also initiated media use (Radio Listening Clubs) in empowering people with disabilities in Uganda. David is among the pioneers of the current Community Led Monitoring practice in Malawi. In 2010, he introduced the first Stigma Index in Malawi, a study for and by people living with HIV. He has co-authored and published.

Solange Baptiste is Executive Director of ITPC. She leads community activists and allies across the globe to deliver on ITPC’s mission to enable people in need to access optimal and affordable HIV treatment through education, demand creation, community-led monitoring and interventions to make medicines more affordable. Solange has over 15 years of global programme management and advocacy experience and specializes in monitoring and evaluation. She has a depth of knowledge in social epidemiology, health financing and community systems strengthening through her work on USAID and PEPFAR health and development and other bilateral and multi-country initiatives across Africa and Asia. She earned a Bachelor of Science in biology from Tuskegee University and her Master of Science in population and international health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Solange is committed to ensuring that the voice of affected communities contributes to and influences the decisions and policies that affect their lives.

Fellow of British Broadcasters in Sustainable Development Communication and a health advocate with a master's in development Communication, covering over 30 years’ experience in development journalism and broadcasting across the globe.

Currently serving as Executive Director of the Network of Journalists Living with HIV (JONEHA), which he founded in 2013. The vision of JONEHA is to be an effective media advocate for quality health services, while its mission is to ensure access to quality health care services for all. JONEHA accomplishes this by mobilizing and empowering journalists and their audiences to engage duty bearers based on evidence generated through data collection, analysis, and advocacy. JONEHA utilizes Community-led monitoring and media products as tools for identifying issues affecting quality health service delivery, thereby facilitating advocacy.

As an accomplished development journalist, health advocate, and pioneer of many initiatives affecting the lives of marginalized communities, including the establishment of the first Development Broadcasting Unit in Malawi using the development through radio approach. He also initiated media use (Radio Listening Clubs) in empowering people with disabilities in Uganda. David is among the pioneers of the current Community Led Monitoring practice in Malawi. In 2010, he introduced the first Stigma Index in Malawi, a study for and by people living with HIV. He has co-authored and published.

 Tione Chilambe has 25 years  in the public health systems development and Management. She is currently the  Head of Coordination and Capacity Building at the National AIDS Commission. Her work focuses on Public Health programs design, implementation and financing. She is responsible for coordination at National level as well as sub-national decentralized community systems, multisectoral partnerships and capacity building for interventions  which include Community Led Monitoring (CLM), Systems integration, AGYW, PLHIV sectoral coordination and other multi-sectoral efforts.  She comes with a global understanding of health with an added advantage of having worked in both in global south as well as north.    She holds a Bachelors of Social Science (Econs) from the University of Malawi, Chancellor College and  a Masters in Public Health (Global Health) from the Boston University’s School of Public Health.

Solange Baptiste is Executive Director of ITPC. She leads community activists and allies across the globe to deliver on ITPC’s mission to enable people in need to access optimal and affordable HIV treatment through education, demand creation, community-led monitoring and interventions to make medicines more affordable. Solange has over 15 years of global programme management and advocacy experience and specializes in monitoring and evaluation. She has a depth of knowledge in social epidemiology, health financing and community systems strengthening through her work on USAID and PEPFAR health and development and other bilateral and multi-country initiatives across Africa and Asia. She earned a Bachelor of Science in biology from Tuskegee University and her Master of Science in population and international health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Solange is committed to ensuring that the voice of affected communities contributes to and influences the decisions and policies that affect their lives.

Fellow of British Broadcasters in Sustainable Development Communication and a health advocate with a master's in development Communication, covering over 30 years’ experience in development journalism and broadcasting across the globe.

Currently serving as Executive Director of the Network of Journalists Living with HIV (JONEHA), which he founded in 2013. The vision of JONEHA is to be an effective media advocate for quality health services, while its mission is to ensure access to quality health care services for all. JONEHA accomplishes this by mobilizing and empowering journalists and their audiences to engage duty bearers based on evidence generated through data collection, analysis, and advocacy. JONEHA utilizes Community-led monitoring and media products as tools for identifying issues affecting quality health service delivery, thereby facilitating advocacy.

As an accomplished development journalist, health advocate, and pioneer of many initiatives affecting the lives of marginalized communities, including the establishment of the first Development Broadcasting Unit in Malawi using the development through radio approach. He also initiated media use (Radio Listening Clubs) in empowering people with disabilities in Uganda. David is among the pioneers of the current Community Led Monitoring practice in Malawi. In 2010, he introduced the first Stigma Index in Malawi, a study for and by people living with HIV. He has co-authored and published.

 Tione Chilambe has 25 years  in the public health systems development and Management. She is currently the  Head of Coordination and Capacity Building at the National AIDS Commission. Her work focuses on Public Health programs design, implementation and financing. She is responsible for coordination at National level as well as sub-national decentralized community systems, multisectoral partnerships and capacity building for interventions  which include Community Led Monitoring (CLM), Systems integration, AGYW, PLHIV sectoral coordination and other multi-sectoral efforts.  She comes with a global understanding of health with an added advantage of having worked in both in global south as well as north.    She holds a Bachelors of Social Science (Econs) from the University of Malawi, Chancellor College and  a Masters in Public Health (Global Health) from the Boston University’s School of Public Health.

Solange Baptiste is Executive Director of ITPC. She leads community activists and allies across the globe to deliver on ITPC’s mission to enable people in need to access optimal and affordable HIV treatment through education, demand creation, community-led monitoring and interventions to make medicines more affordable. Solange has over 15 years of global programme management and advocacy experience and specializes in monitoring and evaluation. She has a depth of knowledge in social epidemiology, health financing and community systems strengthening through her work on USAID and PEPFAR health and development and other bilateral and multi-country initiatives across Africa and Asia. She earned a Bachelor of Science in biology from Tuskegee University and her Master of Science in population and international health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Solange is committed to ensuring that the voice of affected communities contributes to and influences the decisions and policies that affect their lives.