Dr Eleanor Namusoke-Magongo

Eleanor Namusoke-Magongo is a paediatrician and child health specialist with 13 years of experience leading teams to design, implement, monitor and evaluate HIV programmes for children and adolescents. She led the development of the national third-line antiretroviral therapy programme in Uganda and the national clinical systems mentorship toolkit. She is leading the national work for optimizing antiretroviral therapy for children and adolescents in Uganda.

Her research interest is HIV drug resistance and how it affects health outcomes for children and adolescents living with HIV. She is a member of the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa scientific committee. She is very passionate about integrating implementation science into HIV programmes to bridge the knowledge-practice gaps. She is a member of the Adolescent HIV Prevention and Treatment Implementation Science Alliance, a global alliance funded by the National Institutes of Health and Fogarty International Center.

She initiated and led the coordination of the First Paediatric and Adolescent HIV Learning Collaborative, a meeting that fosters South–South learning among African health ministry managers of HIV programmes for children and adolescents and their respective country partners. She also initiated and is leading the organization of the First International Paediatric HIV/AIDS Symposium in Africa, a scientific meeting that will precede every ICASA conference starting in 2021. She is a member of the WHO HIVResNet Steering Group.