WASHINGTON, DC, NOVEMBER 30, 2005 - The American International Health Alliance (AIHA) announces the appointment of Sphindile Magwaza, MPH, as Africa country director of the HIV/AIDS Twinning Center in support of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
AIHA, through a Cooperative Agreement with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the US Department of Health and Human Services, and in collaboration with the International Training and Education Center on HIV (I-TECH) and Futures Group International, has established an "HIV/AIDS Twinning Center" ( www.twinningagainstaids.org) to support twinning and volunteer activities in targeted countries in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean as part of the implementation of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
Ms. Magwaza provides management and programmatic support for the implementation of the HIV/AIDS Twinning Center. As South Africa country director, she oversees regional office operations.
Before joining AIHA, Ms. Magwaza was HIV/AIDS advisor with the Embassy of Ireland in Pretoria. Other work experience includes research manager with Health Systems Trust in Durban and assistant lecturer in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town.
Ms. Magwaza holds an MPH from New York University and a bachelor's degree in nursing from the University of Cape Town.
The new South Africa regional office, scheduled to open in December, will be located at 1250 Pro-Equity Court, Pretorius Street in Hatfield, Pretoria. Ms. Magawaza can be reached at smagwaza@aiha.com.
Created in 1992 by a consortium of major healthcare provider associations and professional medical education organizations, AIHA establishes and manages twinning partnerships between health-related institutions in the United States and their counterparts in Africa, Asia, Eurasia, and the Caribbean. Since its inception, AIHA has supported more than 120 partnerships linking dedicated volunteers in the United States with communities, institutions, and individual colleagues overseas in a concerted effort to improve health service delivery in countries with limited resources. Operating under various cooperative agreements and grants from US and international donor agencies including the United States Agency for International Development (USAID); the US Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA); the World Health Organization (WHO); the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; and Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), AIHA, its partnerships, and complementary programs represent one of the US healthcare sector's most coordinated responses to global health issues.
Support for the HIV/AIDS Twinning Center is provided by HRSA, a leading provider of HIV/AIDS care and treatment services to underserved populations in resource-poor settings in the United States and, more recently, throughout the world. For more information about AIHA, visit our Web site at www.aiha.com.
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