• Position UNAIDS inequalities agenda at the centre of UNAIDS efforts to implement the global strategy in the region, emphasizing human rights interventions at scale.• Provide programmatic, policy, strategic and technical advice on integration, and scaling up, of community-led responses in National AIDS plans within a focus of human rights and gender equality and scaling up of domestic investments in social contracting. • Convene regional networks of PHIV, key populations, and other affected populations with regional decision makers and facilitate meaningful engagement of PHIV, key population, and other affected community networks in decision making mechanisms.• Support and strengthen alliances amongst civil society organisations and communities and mediate/facilitate their engagement towards elimination of punitive legal frameworks, stigma, discrimination, sexual and gender-based violence and, towards protection of rights of people with HIV, key and vulnerable populations, as well as women, adolescent girls and young women in all their diversity.• Identify and promote good practices from within the region and from other regions to benefit the response in countries in the region through appropriate representation of UNAIDS position on gender equality, human rights, community engagement and youth engagement and leadership.• Liaise with the Global Fund, PEPFAR and other multilateral and bilateral partners to ensure coordination and consistency of cooperation to countries, including crisis situations.

• Accountable for the planning, implementation and management of the multi-country maternal, child and adolescent health – Integrated Health Systems in Latin American and the Caribbean (IHSLAC) Project 2016-2020 – funded by Global Affairs Canada (US$ 14,250,000).• Ensure that strategic approaches and programming directions are in consistency and respond to PAHO’s values, mandate, technical policies, strategies and PAHO’s Strategic Plan 2014-2019 and ensure alignment with Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy.• To strategically and technically advise Country Office Representatives (11 countries), Regional Directors, Technical Regional Advisors and, Country Office staff to keep inter-programmatic, multi-stakeholder, inclusive, pro-equity, gender-responsive, culturally sensitive, human-rights-based approaches to programming and implementation of grant funds in support to governments. Accordingly, orchestrate the development and, approve annual work plans and budgets.• To conduct technical and financial monitoring to ensure effective and efficient use of grant funds to achieving results. This includes the devise of monitoring and analysis tools that allow timely and consistent measurement of tangible products achieved at local level, of contribution to changes at national and regional policy level and, that allow sound reporting in compliance with donor commitments.• To coordinate and orchestrate development and implementation of a visibility and advocacy plan to show-case results, best practices and innovation as products of direct contribution of grant funding. Advise PAHO’s Assistant Director, lead and coordinate mobilisation of additional resources.• To represent PAHO as principal liaison officer between Global Affairs Canada and the PAHO’s Office of the Assistant Director as well as in all other instances including, national government authorities (in support to country offices) and actors in the global health development community.

• Accountable for the development, design, planning, implementation and management of UNICEF Mozambique HIV/AIDS Country Programme; • Accountable for ensuring that UNICEF Mozambique HIV/AIDS programme guides National and Provincial policy, programmes and Monitoring & Evaluation frameworks with an emphasis on gender, age disaggregation and gender disparity. • To direct, lead and manage a group of professional and support staff to develop, manage and administer the sectoral or inter-sectoral programme, with a view to the mainstreaming HIV across all aspects of the country programme.• To manage UNICEF Mozambique `HIV/AIDS` programmatic area, with a strong focus on PMTCT and HIV treatment for children and adolescents. • Accountable for internal leadership and coordination, within UNICEF Mozambique, for development of the Second Decade of life approach including all relevant programmatic areas namely, HIV Primary Prevention, PMTCT, Paediatric treatment and Child Protection. • To represent UNICEF in all external instances including the UN technical working group on HIV/AIDS, the HIV Partners’ Forum and the health SWAP.

•Technical assistace and capacity building: Provide technical support, and advice, to the SADC Secretariat on the development of SADC wide policy on critical areas relating to prevention of HIV infection in children (including Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission) and of the care and support of children infected with HIV (including paediatric HIV treatment) and affected by HIV, in the context of an integrated approach to strengthening health services; •Partnership and Coordination: Manage relationships around children and HIV and AIDS between the SADC Secretariat and UNICEF, and, contribute to a coordinated approach with the UN Regional Aids Team for Eastern and Southern Africa, RATESA. •Knowledge Management: Support the development and expansion of the knowledge base available to the SADC Secretariat, and through the Secretariat to SADC member states to ensure that best practices, relevant research findings, innovative approaches, lessons learned, and current policies and guidance are available to, and accessed by the Secretariat and Governments of the Member States.•Advocacy: Working with the staff of the SADC Secretariat, develop and disseminate a SADC advocacy toolkit on PMTCT, paediatric AIDS/TB care, treatment and support and care of vulnerable children, and the linkages between these objectives and with other priority diseases, such as malaria. Act as UNICEF voice for children’s issues and concerns around HIV and AIDS within the SADC Secretariat.

•To provide national AIDS authorities with technical assistance and advocate based on evidence, towards building up on HIV policy towards horizontal, integrated and effective approaches to scaling up prevention of vertical transmission of HIV and paediatric AIDS services including, introduction of task-shifting strategies and community-based approaches. •To provide direct input into the HIV National Strategic Plan, National protocols for prevention of vertical transmission and paediatric AIDS and National HIV M&E plan. •To strategically provide support to government at national and sub-national level in the planning, implementation and monitoring of prevention of vertical transmission of HIV and paediatric AIDS services including coordination and facilitation of participation of civil society including the national network of PLHA. •To contribute, from an HIV perspective, to the formulation and development of ACSD program goals, strategies and approaches for UNICEF’s plan of cooperation and Country Program Document (CPD).•To lead and manage the HIV section including, the preparation of annual work plans, allocation and management of project funds, preparation of annual and donors reports, guiding and supervising professional and support staff in the section, liaising and coordinating with other sections under the ASCD, Education (HIV Prevention) and Policy (Child Protection) programmes. •To represent UNICEF upon government at high level, bilateral and multilateral actors and ensure UNICEF’s active contribution and action within the UN Joint Program for HIV in Angola.

•To technically assist in the design, planning, implementation and follow-up of HIV projects. •To advice on medical and programmatic HIV project goals, activities and implementation strategies. •To conduct assessments and evaluations of HIV projects and report, accordingly. •To supervise, advise and contribute to the management of HIV projects ranging from 20 to 130 staff. •To orchestrate and provide methodological tools for Operations Research initiatives. •To represent the organisation upon government authorities, WHO, UNAIDS, USAID, CDC, EU and other implementing agencies and organisations. •To organise and supervise HIV workshops and participate in major international meetings.•To advice major decision-making concerning the organisation’s HIV Policy.

Assisted in the data analysis of the DTLR funded ‘Our Transport, Our Science, Our Health’ project. I contributed to community meetings; in methodology; and research papers of the project for publication in academic journals and other accessible media. Reviewed research papers and abstracted key parameters required for epidemiological estimates of under-five mortality due to malaria, diarrhoea and neonatal mortality. Entered data abstracted in a computerised database previously developed in Epi-Data.

•I lead an HIV needs assessment in Lagos, Nigeria including a health facility assessment. •I defined the main lines of appraisal in terms of access to education, prevention and care & support services by high-risk groups.•I was in charge and managed a small assessment team. •I represented the organisation and mediated agreements with government authorities. •I recommended on general lines of HIV service intervention including project proposal drafting.

•I contributed to the planning, strategy definition and budgeting of a palliative care programme for PLHAs. •I led the implementation of the project and established M&E collection and analysis tools. •I managed a team of 26 employees within the programme, including physicians, nurses and counsellors. •More than 40 terminally ill patients benefited from the services some of whom were referred for ART. •I represented the organisation upon major hospital authorities and established referral links for ART. •I led HIV/AIDS and palliative care trainings for doctors and nurses working in the hospice.

•I coordinated and supervised medical activities and stock of consumables in 3 Rural Districts in the Province of Cabo Delgado. •I provided direct medical attention. •I ensured daily data collection and reporting to the central base in the Province Capital. •I represented the organisation upon Local Health Authorities and achieved productive collaborative relationships. •I was successful in maintaining an enthusiastic working atmosphere.

•As a physician in a semi rural setting, I provided direct medical attention: outpatient, OB/GYN, Mother & Child Health, emergency room; control of sexually transmitted infections; coaching of medical students undertaking rural rotation.

•As an intern physician in a major city hospital, I provided medical attention to patients attending outpatient and inpatient care at OB/GYN, surgery, orthopaedics, paediatrics, and internal medicine departments. Also, I provided primary health care at a rural health centre, including reach-out Care, prevention and control of tropical diseases activities.