World Fund Appoints Vuyiseka Dubula as New Head of Neighborhood, Rights & Gender
04 September 2023
The World Fund to Combat AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria could be very happy to announce the appointment of Vuyiseka Dubula as the brand new Head of the Neighborhood, Rights & Gender Division beginning on 9 October 2023.
Vuyiseka is presently the Lead, African Advocacy & Partnerships, on the Stephen Lewis Basis. She is the previous Director of the Africa Centre for HIV/AIDS Administration on the Stellenbosch College. She has been residing brazenly with HIV for extra twenty years and has been a frontrunner within the folks residing with HIV motion all through this time. Vuyiseka was Govt Director of the Remedy Motion Marketing campaign (TAC) from 2007-2013. She is presently a commissioner on the O’Neill-Lancet World Fee on Racism, Structural Discrimination and World Well being for 2022-2025 interval. She has served on the South African Nationwide AIDS Council and was a founding father of the Activist Centre for Schooling & Improvement in 2009. The Centre facilitates entry to increased schooling for girls residing with HIV and creates platforms for group activist leaders, significantly ladies, to replicate, write and file their tales.
“Neighborhood management is on the heart of the responses to HIV, TB and malaria,” stated Marijke Wijnroks, Head of the Strategic Funding and Affect Division of the World Fund. “Gender equality, human rights, well being fairness, and powerful group methods are crucial to attaining the World Fund’s stepped-up ambition. Following an intensive search course of, I’m delighted to say that we discovered the perfect particular person for this function. As an individual residing with HIV, Vuyiseka’s lived expertise and management type are properly aligned to what we’d like from this crucial function.”
Vuyiseka has obtained varied awards, together with the 2018 Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Legislation. In 2015, she obtained the World Management Award from Acacia World and in 2010, the John M. Lloyd AIDS Management Award. In 2004, she was acknowledged by the College of Oslo as a “brave chief.” In 2021, she was awarded a PhD for her work titled “Too Poor to Be Handled: Backside-up Advocacy by HIV-Optimistic Activists in Khayelitsha and Lusikisiki, South Africa.”
Vuyiseka is initially from South Africa and holds a PhD in growth research from the College of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. She additionally holds a postgraduate diploma and an MPhil in HIV/AIDS administration from Stellenbosch College. Her undergraduate research had been in well being and social sciences (utilized psychology) from the College of South Africa.
