 Agnès Fiamma, MIPH, is the Director of the Africa and Asia Regional Field Office, University of California Los Angeles Program in Global Health. She holds a master’s in international public health from the University of Sydney, where she focused on HIV and maternal and child health. She has worked in South Africa for the past three years where she coordinates Project Accept, a randomized controlled trial (RCT) of community-based HIV voluntary counseling and testing services taking place in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Thailand. This project, funded by the US National Institute of Mental Health, aims to increase HIV testing and reduce the number of new HIV-infections as well as the negative impact HIV-related stigma in under-resourced community settings. She has also coordinated the scale-up of Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission services in Soweto, which continues to provide services to over 30,000 pregnant women per year. She is also working on the development of prevention services for HIV positive people on antiretroviral therapy in South Africa. In addition to her work in Africa, she collaborates on a community-based RCT in China integrating HIV/STI prevention and treatment through physician training. Her publications and presentations include the disclosure experiences of HIV–positive pregnant women; heterosexual anal intercourse and HIV risk among South African youth; and provision of mobile HIV counseling and testing services in rural and peri-urban communities in Zimbabwe.
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