July 2, 2003

The AIDS crisis and President Bush's trip to Africa:
contact details for spokespeople: July 2003

Olayide Akanni
Email: larayide@yahoo.co.uk
Tel (Nigeria): +234 802 3037 998
Journalist and member, Steering Committee of Pan African HIV/AIDS Treatment Access Movement (PHATAM); member, Treatment Access Movement (TAM/Nigeria).
Areas of expertise: Access to treatment; health impact of intellectual property rights agreements in Nigeria; Stigma and human rights; regional treatment scale up efforts

Rolake Nwagwu
Email: rolakenwagwu@yahoo.co.uk
Tel (Nigeria): +234 803 303 5895
Focal person, Treatment Action Movement (TAM/Nigeria), a civil society movement to spearhead activities on access care and treatment on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other related infectious diseases in Nigeria.
Areas of expertise: national and international campaigns to increase access to AIDS care and treatment

Dr. Chris Ouma
Email: chriso@actionaidkenya.org
Tel (Kenya): +254 (0) 733 616 055 or + 254 2 440 440
ActionAid Kenya, Head of Health Programs
Areas of expertise: impact of trade agreements on access to medicines, delivery of treatment and care in resource poor settings

Milly Katana
Email: katanam@infocom.co.ug
Tel (Uganda): +256 41 222 540 or +27 72 297 8057
Board member of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Board; Advocacy officer, Health Rights Action Group, Uganda; Co-founder, Pan African HIV/AIDS Treatment Access Movement (PHATAM)
Areas of expertise: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Uganda prevention efforts, including condom promotion; scaling up access to antiretroviral treatment in sub-Saharan Africa

Sipho Mtathi
Email: sipho@tac.org.za
Tel (South Africa): +27 72 424 7180 mobile or +27 21 364 5489 office
Treatment Literacy Coordinator, Treatment Action Campaign; Steering committee member, Pan African HIV/AIDS Treatment Access Movement (PHATAM)
Areas of expertise: national and regional treatment literacy efforts;

Rosette Mutambi
Email: heps@utonline.co.ug
Tel (Uganda): +256 41 270970
Coalition for Health Promotion and Social Development, Uganda Coalition for Access to Essential Medicines
Areas of expertise: access to essential care and treatment; the health impact of trade agreements in Uganda

Sophia Mukasa Monico
Email: smukasamonico@globalhealth.org
Former executive director, TASO, Uganda; AIDS Program Officer, Global Health Council
Areas of expertise: Condom use and the success of Uganda's prevention efforts

For more information contact Asia Russell: +1 267 475 2645 or asia@critpath.org