ASAP - Key Persons
Anandi is a community based consultant who adds value to ASAP's work by bringing in her expertise from programme development to knowledge sharing, through evidence based advocacy on HIV programming in the Global South.
Anaïs is a sociologist who combines extensive research and policy experience in work related to young people, gender equality, women's health and sexuality. She is back in Canada after several years spent between Malawi and Switzerland. She was recently awarded her PhD in Development studies for her dissertation about the love stories of young Malawians....
Edwige is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies and recently undertook research into civil society organisations working with marginalised populations during transitions to democracy in the Middle East and North Africa. Edwige brings fifteen years of experience working in HIV/AIDS and civil society policy development and...
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director, ASAP / Pretoria, South Africa
Hilary Nkulu is South African and lives in Pretoria, Gauteng Province where she has recently established ASAP's new South African office. Hilary is a highly skilled manager in the development sector working particularly on gender-based violence, HIV and other public health issues.
Hilary Nkulu is South African and lives in Pretoria, Gauteng Province and represents ASAP in Africa. She is a highly skilled programme manager with more than 12 years experience in the development sector working particularly on public health and social justice issues. Her technical competencies include design, implementation and evaluation of programmes in health, HIV and gender including gender based violence.
For ASAP she has substantial experience working with a range of clients, including the Global Fund Communities Delegation to the Board, PATH and UNICEF. For the Carr Fund she led the work articulation of the structure, administration and hosting, as well as refining and clarifying the results framework. She has experience of working with bilateral donors such as DFID where she spent over a decade overseeing programmes focusing on Gender, HIV and other public health and social justice issues, in Southern Africa. Hilary sits on a number of Advisory Boards for local NGOs working on HIV and Gender issues in South Africa.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Canadian / Dutch Pharmacist, Manager
Kevin is a Canadian/Dutch pharmacist, manager and educator who brings over 15 years of international experience to ASAP in the fields of global leadership, access to medicines, evidenced-based advocacy programming and community engagement.
Livia is a gender expert and worked with ASAP to organize the Stop TB Partnership's ‘TB/HIV Gender Assessments' workshop that was held in Nairobi in January 2015. She has a background in social anthropology and is passionate about social justice.
Martin is a social scientist and peer research consultant based in Malaysia who brings to ASAP his extensive research work, regional and international consulting experience and high-level contacts in Asia-Pacific HIV networks.
Martin-Mary is a passionate global health advocate based in Nigeria, strongly committed to working for marginalized people especially those in rural communities.
Martina Clark brings over two decades of international work experience on HIV and AIDS to the ASAP team. Through this work, she has traveled to about 90 countries, and has done HIV-related work in at least 50 of those.
Milly brings an intricate knowledge of Global Health to ASAP with years of experience of working with civil society as well as government departments in HIV prevention, care, advocacy and capacity building.
Nadine has spent 20 years working in HIV and global health with both United Nations and civil society agencies, as well as in academic institutions in Asia, Africa and her home country, Ireland.
Nomsa is a law student from Malawi. She is driven by a determination to leave this world a better place and to inspire others to do the same.
Paul brings his eight years of experience on the HIV & TB response in the Southern Africa region. Working at the heart of South Africa's politically charged HIV response - as an activist at TAC and AIDS Law Project, in government for South Africa's National AIDS Council, Health Department and within The Presidency.
Paul graduated from Wits University with a degrees in Politics and Philosophy. Prior to his recent relocation to Oxford Paul worked in South Africa's Presidency as part of a team of two advising the Deputy President's leadership of the country's HIV response.
His work began at TAC and AIDS Law Project as part of the civil society effort to press government into re-establishing the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC). After the country removed ‘Mbeki' and ‘Manto' Paul moved from activism into the Health Department to help build a new SANAC secretariat and support the new Health Minister and Deputy President to transform the AIDS response. This included conceptualising and initially leading South Africa's record-breaking national HIV counselling and testing campaign, through which 20 million people were tested for HIV and more than 1.5 million enrolled onto ART.
Outside of government Paul led the drafting of the first country-to-country PEPFAR agreement between the U.S. and South African governments, governing, for the first time, the then $580 million in PEPFAR annual development aid provided to South Africa. At the World Bank and at the WHO StopTB Partnership Paul authored and steered the signing of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Declaration on TB in the Mining Sector', signed by 15 Heads of State in August 2012.
Robin founded ASAP in 2010. She believes that there is a real opportunity to end the AIDS epidemic, and wants to bring her skills and that of her peers to meet that goal. She brings decades of experience: in leadership positions in government, international organizations and at community level.
Robin Gorna founded ASAP in 2010 to bring together talented individuals who have been deeply affected by AIDS - especially people openly living with HIV - to make change. She was committed to bringing together a wide range of skills, and an exceptional range of networks and personal contacts to have a deeper impact on the global response to AIDS, public health, and international development at international, regional and country level. Beginning with work in early treatment and action programmes at the Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) in London at the height of the epidemic in 1986, Robin went on to co-found the European AIDS Treatment Group, and co-chaired international conferences, including the 1998 World AIDS Conference and the 2001 Asia-Pacific AIDS Conference. She has published many articles and reports, as well as three books, including Vamps, Virgins and Victims: How can women fight AIDS? - one of the first to describe the impact of AIDS on women.She set up the first multi-sectoral team on global AIDS policy at the UK Department for International Development (DFID) in 2003 and later moved to Pretoria to lead DFID's health and AIDS work in Southern Africa.
In early 2015 she left ASAP to take up the position of Executive Director at the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. http://www.who.int/pmnch/
Shona is a dedicated activist, with over 20 years of experience promoting the health and rights for key populations. With a strong track record of successful work in community mobilisation, she works to empower people affected by rights violations and deprivation of access to health.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director, ASAP / New Delhi, India
Sue is based in New Delhi, India and has nearly 20 years experience working around the world. Sue's knowledge of global health issues is extensive, particularly regarding TB, HIV, reproductive health and family planning from the community to regional and global levels.