Dr Alex Coutinho
Dr.
Coutinho graduated from Makerere Medical School in 1983, and worked
with the first cases of AIDS Nsambya Hospital from 1983-85. From 1986-89
Dr. Coutinho lectured at Makerere Medical School. He then worked
in Swaziland in 1989, where he started one of the first care programmes
for people living with HIV. He also established the first occupational
health programme for people living with HIV in the private sector in
Swaziland. He completed an MPH from the University of Witwatersrand in
2001 and returned to Uganda that same year. From 2001-07 Dr. Coutinho
served as the Executive Director of The AIDS Support organization (TASO)
in Uganda. At TASO he was responsible for the scale up of TASO services
for 100,000 clients living with HIV of whom 20,000 were
on antiretroviral therapy. Dr. Coutinho is currently the
Executive Director of the Infectious Diseases Institute in
Kampala Uganda, the Vice Chair of the Board of the InternationalPartnership for Microbicides, a member of the SIDA Africa Regional Advisory Group, and a member of the Global HIV Prevention Working Group.
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