David Stead MBChB, MPhil, FCP(SA)

Dr. David Stead is Head of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Department of Medicine at Frere and Cecilia Makiwane hospitals. Stead received a 2019 Rural Institutional Award from the Discovery Foundation to support and train district clinicians in the central Eastern Cape. He plans to put in place a rural training and support program for doctors over three years.

Dr. Stead has a deep academic knowledge of infectious diseases and HIV medicine. He also worked as the Principal Medical Officer in HIV services at the former GF Jooste Hospital, which provided HIV and trauma care to people living in the Cape Flats. He joined the Medicines Sans Frontiers team in Khayelitsha to start giving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment well before 2004.