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The following organizations represent the governing council of the ABDGN
Women's Health in Women's Hands Community Health Centre (Canada)
African and Caribbean Council on HIV and AIDS in Ontario ACCHO (Canada)
Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development (Canada)
The Black AIDS Institute (USA)
African Services Committee (USA)
AIDES (France)
LIGHT OF AFRICA NRW e.V.(Germany)
Caribbean Vulnerable Communities (Jamaica)
African HIV Policy Network (United Kingdom)
Governing Council Members
Wangari Tharao, Co-Chair
Wangari Tharao is the Program and Research Manager at Women’s Health in Women’s Hands CHC and a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Health and Behavioural Sciences Program. Wangari has been involved in the field of HIV/AIDS in various capacities including advocacy, health promotion and research for more than 15 years. She has served on various boards, working groups, advisory and review committees including the Ontario HIV Treatment Network’s (OHTN) Scientific Review Committee, OHTN’s Community Network Advisory Committee, Ontario Advisory Committee on HIV/AIDS, Ontario HIV Endemic Task Force and Ministerial Council of the Canadian Strategy on HIV/AIDS. She was involved in the planning of the UNAIDS Thematic Meeting on “People on the move – forced displacement and migrant populations” in 2009. She is currently the Co-Chair of the African and Caribbean Council on HIV/AIDS in Ontario (ACCHO), Interim Co-Chair of the Canadian HIV/AIDS Black, African and Caribbean Network (CHABAC), and Co-Chair of the Governing Council of the African and Black Diaspora Global Network on HIV and AIDS (AB-DGN)
Wangari also served on the Editorial board of the Canadian Women Studies Journal for five years.
Rhon Reynolds, Co-Chair
Rhon Reynolds has over 12 years public policy experience working in the voluntary/community sector with and on behalf of vulnerable and underserved Black and ethnic minority communities, migrant populations both in New York City and London. As such he worked in New York as a Policy Officer for Gay Men’s Health Crisis, Inc. and for the New York AIDS Coalition (NYAC) as its Director of Public Policy. In London he was employed as the Policy Development Officer at the National AIDS Trust to develop the African HIV Framework for better prevention, the Director of Social Analysis at the 1990 Trust a Human Rights NGO that works towards racial equality and most recently as the Head of Policy and Deputy CEO of the African HIV Policy Network.
He is currently lives and works in the Netherlands, where he is employed by the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative’s, Country and Regional Programs as an Advocacy Specialist. In this role he is responsible for monitoring and identifying policy initiatives by different European governments.
He is the Main NGO Delegate on the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board, he is a Trustee of the UK Consortium on HIV and International Development, a representative on the European HIV and AIDS Civil Society Forum, the Policy Working Group of the European AIDS Treatment Group and the Governing Council of the African and Black Diaspora Global Network on HIV and AIDS. He completed his graduate studies in Public Health Policy at New York University and undergraduate in Biological Science at Seton Hall University.
Kwaku (Paul) Adomako, Project Manager
Kwaku (Paul) Adomako is a first generation Canadian with both his parents from Ghana, West Africa. Kwaku completed a Masters of Science specializing in Gerontology at the University of Guelph, was the previous director of positive prevention at the British Columbia Persons with AIDS Society, and was the outreach coordinator for the Toronto Host Secretariat for the 2006 International AIDS Conference. Kwaku continues to work as a research coordinator at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health, St. Michael's Hospital, working with Dr. Janet Smylie on provincal, national and international Indigenous public health research projects. Kwaku has been a consultant with the African and Black Diaspora Global Network on HIV and AIDS (ABDGN) and coordinated their activities for the 2008 International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. Vienna 2010 is the third IAC conference Kwaku has worked and he is proud to be coordinating the activities of the ABDGN for this meeting, as well as on other initiatives linked to the growth of the network. Kwaku continues to value the development of partnerships and networks for improved health and health polices for vulnerable populations across multiple contexts around the globe.
Phill Wilson
Phill Wilsonis President and CEO of the Black AIDS Institute. The Black AIDS Institute is the only national HIV/AIDS think tank focused exclusively on Black people. In addition, Phill currently serves as a member of the President’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA). Prior to founding the Institute, Wilson served as the AIDS Coordinator for the City of Los Angeles from 1990 to 1993, the Director of Policy and Planning at AIDS Project Los Angeles from 1993 to 1996. He was co-chair of the Los Angeles County HIV Health Commission from 1990 to 1995, and was an appointee to the HRSA AIDS Advisory Committee from 1995 to 1998. Further, Mr. Wilson was the coordinator of the International Community Treatment and Science Workshop at the 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th International AIDS Conferences in Geneva, Switzerland, Durban South, Africa, Barcelona, Spain, Bangkok, Thailand, and Toronto Canada.
Wilson was the co-founder of the National Black Lesbian & Gay Leadership Forum and the National Task Force on AIDS Prevention. He has been involved in the founding of a number of other AIDS service organizations and community-based organizations, including the Chris Brownlie Hospice, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the National Minority AIDS Council, the Los Angeles County Gay Men of Color Consortium, and the CAEAR Coalition. Phill was named one Essence Magazine’s top 25 most influential African Americans in 2008 and Ebony Magazine’s Power 150 in 2009. Mr. Wilson graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts in 1977 from Illinois Wesleyan University. He currently resides in Los Angeles, CA.
Rosemary Forbes
Rosemary is the Program Manger of the Canadian-based Interagency Coalition on AIDS and Development (ICAD), a collation of approximately 100 organizations and individuals interested in HIV/AIDS and development issues. Over the past 4 years, ICAD has worked closely with the African and Caribbean Council on HIV/AIDS in Ontario (ACCHO) on HIV/AIDS issues affecting the African and Caribbean Diaspora in Canada. Prior to her work at ICAD, Rosemary spent 15 years working in southern Africa.
Valérie Pierre-Pierre
Valérie Pierre-Pierre has worked in the non-profit sector for close to ten years. Her experience, at first in the field of education and later in HIV and AIDS, includes project management, monitoring and evaluation, communications, research, programmatic support and strategic planning. She played a key role in coordinating the monitoring and evaluation component and supporting project planning and implementation for a five-year ten-country community advocacy project to scale up prevention, while working at the International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO). Currently, she is the Director of the African and Caribbean Council on HIV/AIDS in Ontario (ACCHO), a provincial coalition of individuals and organizations dedicated to the response to HIV and AIDS in African, Caribbean and Black communities in Ontario, Canada. Valérie’s international experience includes having worked on a local community HIV prevention project in Cameroon. Her educational background is in urban planning, with a Master's degree in community and regional planning, with a focus on international development planning.
Amanda Lugg
Amanda Lugg has over 15 years of HIV/AIDS direct service and activism, the last 10 of which have been spent at African Services Committee, New York City where she currently serves as the Director of Advocacy.
Founded in 1981, African Services provides health, housing, legal and social services to more than 10,000 immigrants, refugees and asylees from across the African Diaspora each year, focusing on HIV prevention, testing, care and advocacy. African Services also operates three HIV testing and treatment centers in Ethiopia.
As well as representing African Services at numerous national and international fora, including on the Governing Council of the African and Black Diaspora Global Network on HIV/AIDS (ABDGN), Amanda also a sits on the Priority Setting and Resource Allocation Committee of the New York City HIV Planning Council and is an active board member and current Board Treasurer of Health GAP (Global Access Project).
Health GAP is a U.S. based organization dedicated to eliminating barriers to global access to affordable life-sustaining medicines for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Elizabeth Horlemann
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Joseph Situ
Joseph joined the French HIV/AIDS community based NGO AIDES in 2002 and became a full-time staff member in 2007. His main activities have focused on developing and implementing health promotion activities to prevent HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, and sexually transmissible infections (STIs) among most vulnerable groups, as well as providing psycho-social support for people living with HIV. Joseph was also closely involved in the drafting of the new French national plan on HIV/AIDS and STIs. Currently, Joseph coordinates AIDES health promotion initiatives with migrant communities at the French national level. He also coordinates the RAAC-Sida, a network that brings together more than 30 African and Caribbean NGOs that provide HIV prevention and support across France.
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