User:Clairemwagner/Agnes Binagwaho

Agnes Binagwaho MD, M(Ped) is a Rwandan pediatrician and serves as Minister of Health of Rwanda. From October 2008 to May 2011, she served as the Permanent Secretary of the the Ministry of Health of Rwanda. Dr. Binagwaho is currently Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine in Harvard Medical School. She chairs the Rwanda Country Coordinating Mechanism of The Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. From 2002-2008, Dr. Binagwaho was Executive Secretary of Rwanda's National AIDS Control Commission. During that period she has served as the Chair of the Rwandan Steering Committee for the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief; was responsible for the management of the World Bank MAP Project in Rwanda; served on the country’s High Commission on Aid Policy put a link see MINICOFIN ; co-coordinated the United Nations Task Force of Millennium Development Goal Project for HIV/AIDS and Access to Essential Medicines under the leadership of Jeffery Sachs, for the Secretary General of the United Nations ; and, from 2006-2009, co-chaired the Joint Learning Initiative on Children and HIV/AIDS, an independent alliance of researchers, implementers, policy makers, activists, and people living with HIV. Dr. Agnes obtained her medical training in Belgium and France and specialized in emergency pediatrics, neonatology, and the treatment of HIV/AIDS in children and adults. She serves as a member of several boards, foundations, and journals combating AIDS and infant mortality, including the African Advisory Board of the Steven Lewis Fundation, the advisory board of the Friends of the Global Fund Africa and the advisory committee of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, the editorial board of Journal of Health and Human Rights, the editorial board for the Public Library of Science. Dr. Agnes is a served as member of the steering committee for the Multi-Country Support Program on SSR/HIV/AIDS, an advisory body of the Royal Tropical Institute of Amsterdam, Netherlands. She is also a founding board member of the Tropical Institute of the Community Health and Development in Africa, based in Kismu, Kenya. "Dr. Agnes is focused on research in the intersection of health and social and political sciences. Her studies and publications aim to improve access to prevention, care and treatment for HIV/AIDS and other diseases. She actively fights for children’s rights and promotes gender equity in Rwanda and around the world.  She is at the vanguard in the fight against HIV/AIDS, striving to find effective methodologies to advance interventions to diminish and eliminate the burden of the disease. Dr. Agnes currently resides in Kigali, Rwanda.