Ashraf Coovadia MB ChB(ZAMBIA), DCH(SA), FCPaed(SA)

Prof Ashraf Coovadia, director of ESRU Head of Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital (Previously Coronation) and University of The Witwatersrand (Wits) is involved with provincial and national departments of health and has established campaigns and programs that resulted in improvements of government policies and procedures. He continues to serve as an advisor on the Paediatric Antiretroviral expert panel that assists the NDoH with developing and implementing paediatric treatment guidelines. He does this in his capacity as part of the steering committee of the Child and Adolescent Committee of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society. He played and continues to play a key role in the revision process of the PMTCT policies and will remain a technical advisor to the NDoH on PMTCT and Paediatric HIV. He is also a member of several different councils, committees and societies to be at the forefront of driving changes and improvement in policies for all HIV-infected women and children.