With U.S. global health funding under strain and long-standing support to African HIV programs facing new disruptions, the future of the HIV response is at a pivotal moment.
Clinics are closing in some settings, health workers are being laid off, and essential services risk being scaled back. Yet these challenges are also driving urgency and innovation. Across the continent, governments, communities, and civil society are accelerating bold, systems-level strategies to sustain and strengthen HIV service delivery — integrating prevention and treatment into broader health systems, developing new financing approaches, and advancing locally led solutions that can endure beyond donor cycles.
Building on insights from recent high-level convenings, including the IAS 2025 pre-conference in Kigali and the February Sustainable Prevention meeting in Lilongwe, this webinar will explore what sustainable, African-led HIV responses can and must look like in the years ahead.
Join Georgetown Law’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and The Conversation Africa for a timely conversation to explore country-led innovations in policy, financing, and service delivery, and what an African-led sustainable HIV response will look like.
Meet Our Panelists
Florence Riako Anam is the Co-Executive Director at the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+). She is a global advocacy leader in the HIV response. It matters to her that global policy and research decisions translate into action that directly impacts people living with and affected by HIV to enjoy the quality of life. Prior to GNP+ Florence worked at Médecins Sans Frontières and the International Community of Women Living with HIV. She holds a Master of Arts in Communications degree from the University of Nairobi and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Maseno University.
Dr. Charles B. Holmes is the Director of the Georgetown Center for Innovation in Global Health, a Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center, and serves as a Distinguished Scholar and Program Director at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Dr. Holmes is a physician who has held senior global health leadership roles in government, academia, and non-governmental organizations. He served as Chief Medical Officer and Deputy U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator for PEPFAR in the Department of State under Ambassador Eric Goosby during the Obama-Biden administration.
Dr. Stephen Ayisi-Addo is the Senior Public Health Specialist and Deputy Director Public Health of the Ghana Health Service. He is the immediate past Programme Manager of the National AIDS/STI Control Programme (NACP), Ghana. He is a member of the International AIDS Society and an academic mentor and adjunct lecturer of the School of Public Health, University of Ghana Legon.
Dr Beatrice Matanje has been the Chief Executive Officer for the National AIDS Commission (NAC) in Malawi since October 2023. She is a medical doctor, a public health physician with a medical degree in epidemiology and a doctoral degree in Global Health Implementation. She has over 15 years of experience in health program management leadership from mid to senior/executive levels. Prior to joining the NAC, she was the Medical Director for Partners In Health/PIH Malawi, an international NGO which is a leader in universal coverage (UHC) and global health equity.
Dr Landry Dongmo Tsague is the Director of Primary Health Care at Africa CDC. He has previously been the UNICEF Senior Health Adviser to the African Union and Economic Commission for Africa and served as the coordinator for the UNICEF partnership with Africa CDC. He has held various technical leadership roles with UNICEF, including Regional Health and HIV/AIDS Adviser for West and Central Africa and Chief HIV in Zambia and Rwanda. Before UNICEF, Landry served as Senior Technical Adviser with ICAP Columbia University in Rwanda and as Chief of Service for the PMTCT program in the Ministry of Health in Cameroon.