Présidents du Comité directeur international (CDI)

Lillian K. Mworeko

Lillian K. Mworeko is the Executive Director and founding member of the International Community of Women living with HIV Eastern Africa (ICWEA), a regional advocacy network run by and for women living with HIV.

With over 20 years of experience, Lillian is a gender, human rights and women’s rights defender who is passionate about women’s priorities and aspirations. She has a long history of advocating for increased SRHR choices for women, including family planning and female-controlled HIV prevention tools.

Together with UN Women, Lillian co-leads the household and community setting technical working group of the Global Partnership to Eliminate All Forms of HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination. She is also a member of the WHO Global Validation Advisory Committee for eMTCT of HIV and syphilis.

She previously served as a board member of IPM after having previously served on the independent data and safety monitoring board of IPM 032, an open-label extension study of the Dapivirine ring; as a member of the community rights and gender advisory group for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the Global Community Advisory Board for the ECHO trial.

She is a founding member of Uganda Network of AIDS Services Organisations (UNASO), the National Forum of PLHIV Network in Uganda (NAFOPHANU) and Together Against AIDS Positive Association (TAAPA).

Lillian has received numerous honors, including the 2019 CHANGE Courageous Changemaker Award, the 2016 Uganda HIV&AIDS Leadership Award, the 2015 Justice Makers Award and the 2014 ICW Inaugural Sisterhood Award.

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