Community-Led Monitoring Steering Committee

Beatrice Ajonye

Beatrice Ajonye is the National Coordinator for the PEPFAR Community-Led Monitoring Program at the International Community of Women Living with HIV Eastern Africa (ICWEA). With over eight years of experience in health rights advocacy for women, girls in diversity, and marginalized groups, she is deeply committed to community-driven research, policy analysis, and advancing health equity.

Beatrice holds a Master’s degree in refugees and migration studies and a Bachelor’s degree in business administration and management (accounting and finance), both from Uganda Martyrs University. She is also an alumnus of the Harm Reduction Academy by Alliance for Public Health Ukraine and has received certifications in monitoring and evaluation, gender and human rights, and intellectual property rights, focusing on access to affordable ARVs in Africa.

Her career milestones include leading advocacy efforts at the Uganda Harm Reduction Network, influencing the development of Uganda’s first Harm Reduction Guidelines, and overseeing a Global Fund project impacting 65 districts. Currently, at ICWEA, she manages the PEPFAR-funded Community-Led Monitoring programme, which coordinates CLM efforts across 80 districts, 322 health facilities and 50 key population drop-in centres. Beatrice is an active member of multiple national and international working groups dedicated to community-led health initiatives and policy development.

David Kamkwamba

David Kamkwamba is a seasoned development journalism and broadcasting specialist with over 30 years of global experience in advancing the role of media in social transformation. Holding a Master’s degree in development communication, he has seamlessly transitioned into advocacy, leveraging his expertise to amplify voices for equitable health services.

As the founder and Executive Director of the Network of Journalists Living with HIV (JONEHA), established in 2013, David leads efforts to champion quality health service delivery. JONEHA envisions a society where accessible, high-quality healthcare is a universal right. Through community-led monitoring, evidence-based advocacy, and innovative media strategies, the organization empowers journalists and their audiences to hold duty bearers accountable and drive meaningful change.

David is an accomplished health advocate and a trailblazer in initiatives serving marginalized communities. He is among the pioneers of community-led monitoring practices in Malawi. He played a pivotal role in establishing Malawi’s first Development Broadcasting Unit, utilizing a development-through-radio approach, and introduced media tools like Radio Listening Clubs to empower people with disabilities in Uganda. In 2010, he introduced the country’s first Stigma Index, a groundbreaking study led by and for people living with HIV. His contributions extend to co-authoring publications and spearheading transformative programmes that continue to impact underserved populations.

Harry Madukani

Harry Madukani is a seasoned project management expert and researcher with a decade of experience working with civil society organizations and the Government of Malawi on HIV and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) initiatives. He currently serves as Programs Manager for the Coalition of Women Living with HIV and AIDS (COWLHA) and provides technical assistance to the Global Fund on community health issues in Malawi. Harry is also an active advocate for the development and adoption of an HIV vaccine in Malawi.

Harry specializes in project design, implementation and monitoring, including training data collectors for community-led monitoring (CLM), data analysis and evaluation. His consultancy work spans strategic planning, resource mobilization, communication strategies, investment cases, baseline studies and end-of-project evaluations. Additionally, Harry has contributed to developing tools for TB screening and testing under CLM initiatives and has conducted research on resource tracking for HIV community-led responses, advanced HIV disease and TB from non-biomedical perspectives.

Mtisunge Mikaya

Mtisunge Mikaya is a dedicated health and rights advocate specializing in project management, monitoring, evaluation, results and learning (MERL). She has extensive experience in evidence-based advocacy focused on enhancing HIV, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and tuberculosis (TB) services. Currently, she serves as the National Coordinator for the community-led monitoring (CLM) project at the Malawi Network of AIDS Service Organizations. This initiative is designed to improve HIV and SRHR service delivery for people living with HIV, adolescent girls and young women, women living with HIV, and key populations, including female sex workers, men who have sex with men, and trans individuals.

In her role, Mtisunge empowers community members to collect and analyse data, propose solutions, engage duty bearers and monitor their commitments. As the project lead, she ensures robust systems are in place for monitoring health facilities. Her responsibilities include leading the development and review of data collection tools aligned with national indicators and PEPFAR priorities, training the CLM team in data collection, advocacy and commitment tracking, and building the capacity of community members to drive sustainable improvements.

Kenneth Mwehonge

Kenneth Mwehonge serves as the Executive Director of HEPS Uganda, bringing over 15 years of expertise in public health and policy advocacy. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in social sciences from Makerere University, a Master’s degree in social sector planning and management, and a certificate in leadership, organizing and action from the Harvard Kennedy School for Executive Education. Currently, he is pursuing a Master’s degree in public health at Suffolk University, UK.

Kenneth’s professional experience spans policy analysis and advocacy, project design and management, resource mobilization, coalition coordination and the development and implementation of advocacy campaigns. He has worked extensively with grassroots communities, as well as national and global stakeholders, to advance health initiatives and advocate for the rights of marginalized populations.

Notably, Kenneth is an AVAC Prevention Advocacy Fellows awardee. During his time as a fellow, he successfully designed and implemented a fellowship programme promoting universal access to viral load monitoring in Uganda (2014-2015). He is also a recipient of the Commonwealth Fellowship Program, through which he participated in a learning exchange with the National Health Service in Bristol, England, in 2012. In addition, Kenneth is an active member of the Fight AIDS Coalition.

Ndivhuwo Rambau

Ndivhuwo Rambau is a dedicated HIV activist, experienced researcher and skilled project coordinator, currently contributing to the Ritshidze programme in South Africa. Ritshidze, which means “saving our lives” in TshiVenda, is a community-led initiative developed by people living with HIV and activists to hold the South African government and aid agencies accountable for improving HIV and TB service delivery.

Ndivhuwo holds a Master’s degree in demography and population studies from the University of Witwatersrand. She has extensive expertise in managing projects, designing and implementing monitoring and evaluation systems, and conducting project evaluations, including data capture and analysis.

At Ritshidze, Ndivhuwo leads a team of activists working to enhance the quality of HIV and TB services in the public health sector. Through a community-driven clinic monitoring system, the programme is implemented quarterly at over 450 clinics and community healthcare centres across 27 districts in eight provinces of South Africa. By empowering people living with HIV to assess clinic services, identify challenges, propose evidence-based solutions and advocate for their implementation, Ndivhuwo ensures that the data collection efforts of the project are effectively managed and contribute to meaningful change.

Moses Talibita

Moses Talibita is a recognized leader in Uganda’s public health sector, specializing in law, education and advocacy. As a legal consultant, he focuses on enhancing civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) frameworks and improving the legal environment for civil society organizations. He also serves as a legal compliance officer for the Uganda National Health Consumers Organisation and lectures on environmental and public health law at Nkumba University.

In 2023, Moses coordinated the Global Health Advocacy Incubator project in Uganda, driving budget advocacy that increased funding for the National Identification and Registration Authority and advanced CRVS inclusion for non-state actors. A 2022 fellow with the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, he represents civil society organizations on Uganda’s National Tobacco Control Committee, contributing to tobacco regulation.

Moses is a PhD candidate in natural resources management at Nkumba University, where he also earned his Master's and LLB degrees.

Kenneth Ngure

Kenneth Ngure is an Associate Professor of Global Health and Dean of the School of Public Health of the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya. He is an Affiliate Associate Professor of the Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Visiting Scientist at Kenyatta National Hospital and, recently, a visiting Professor at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health. He is also a member of the Expert Committee on Clinical Trials of the Kenyan Pharmacy and Poisons Board. 

Kenneth is a member of the Behavioral Research Group of the Microbicides Trials Network (MTN), the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Network (IMPAACT), the Socio-Behavioral and Structural Working Group of the HIV Prevent Trials Network (HPTN), and Office of HIV/AIDS Network Coordination (HANC) Cross-Network Behavioral Science Consultative Group (BSCG). He is Pillar 1 co-lead for Microbicide R&D to Advance HIV Prevention Technologies through Responsive Innovation and eXcellence (MATRIX). These groups are directed towards the development of new biomedical strategies to prevent HIV.

Kenneth is an HIV prevention expert, having been a site investigator in the landmark Partners PrEP trial, which was followed by the Partners (PrEP) Demonstration Project and, more recently, the Partners Scale-UP Project. He is also a member of the PrEP Technical Working Group of the Ministry of Health, Kenya. Recently, Kenneth co-chaired a protocol (MTN-034) to evaluate the safety of and adherence to a vaginal matrix ring containing dapivirine and oral emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate in an African adolescent female population. He is co-lead on a randomized trial that tests how HIV self-testing might support PrEP delivery among men and women in Kenya (R01MH113572) and is currently leading the behavioural component of several other multinational studies that are looking into simplifying PrEP delivery.

Kenneth has over 25 years of public health leadership experience gained in diverse HIV and AIDS research settings in central, eastern, southern and western Africa. This includes working as a Program Director for the Organization of African First Ladies Against HIV/AIDS (OAFLA – Kenyan Chapter) and consulting for organizations that include the World Health Organization. He was recently re-elected to represent Africa on the Governing Council of the IAS, where he also sits on the Executive Board. Kenneth has authored or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed conference abstracts and 160 peer-reviewed manuscripts.

Siobhan Malone

Siobhan Malone is a senior program officer on the HIV and tuberculosis team at the Gates Foundation. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Georgetown University in 1997 and her Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2003.

Since joining the Gates Foundation in January 2005, Siobhan has worked across the foundation’s HIV portfolio. She concentrated initially on upstream HIV product research and development, including HIV vaccines and multi-purpose prevention technologies. She now focuses on strengthening downstream HIV service delivery.

Siobhan has worked to bridge the foundation’s HIV and family planning programme strategy work, especially as it relates to adolescent girls and young women. Between 2017 and 2019, she was based in Tanzania, coordinating and planning investment strategies from a country-led perspective.

Before joining the Gates Foundation, Siobhan worked at the HIV Vaccine Trials Network on recruitment, retention and community engagement. In 1998 she received a Fulbright grant to work in Cote d’Ivoire with the National AIDS Control Program and a non-governmental organization on AIDS prevention activities among women’s empowerment groups. She has also conducted human papillomavirus research in Dakar, Senegal.