Former Head of HIV, Christian Aid. Now in the HIV Department of WHO in Geneva
Dr Rachel Baggaley is a medical doctor who has focused on HIV since 1990, when she began treating injecting drug users in south London. From 1992 to 1998, she worked in Zambia with Kara Counselling and Training Trust, setting up voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) services and care and support services for people with HIV, before moving to WHO to work on VCT and prevention of mother-to-child transmission. From May 2002-2010 she was the head of the HIV unit at Christian Aid, an international NGO supporting around 300 community-based organisations working on HIV in developing countries. She is a member of the UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development, an honorary research fellow at the London school of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and is now based in Geneva working in the HIV Department at WHO.
Maria Zuurmond Freelance Consultant, and research associate within the Faculty of Children and Health, Institute of Education (University of London) (more)
