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Chief of Party
Dr Tichaona is a physician and public health professional with 15+ years of experience implementing HIV/TB prevention and C&T projects, and collaborating with various stakeholders to develop national policies, strategies, guidelines, and tools for ART, MNCH integration, and TB control.
Technical Director
Tafadzwa Priscilla Sibanda is a registered medical practitioner and Community Physician (Public Health) Specialist. She has a wealth of experience acquired in 15 years from working at all the different levels of care in the public health sector in Zimbabwe with both the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MOHCC) and the Non-Governmental Organization sector.
Finance and Operations Director
Prisca is a Chartered Accountant and holder of MSc Strategic Management with over 12 years of experience working as a senior finance professional in various organizations in Research and NGO sector.
Strategic Information, Evaluation and Learning Director.
Dr Khulamuzi Nyathi is the Strategic Information, Evaluation and Learning Director at ZHI ACCE project. He is a public health specialist, with a demonstrated track record of working in the medical, administrative management and capacity building of human resource for health, building Epidemic Preparedness & Response mechanism whilst maintaining Critical Basic Services Provision.
Chief of Party
He is a physician and public health professional with 15+ years of experience implementing HIV/TB prevention and C&T projects, and collaborating with various stakeholders to develop national policies, strategies, guidelines, and tools for ART, MNCH integration, and TB control. He joined the Ministry of Health and Child Care in 2006 as the Deputy National ART Coordinator and was instrumental in the scale up/rollout of ART in the public sector In Zimbabwe. He later joined EGPAF in 2009, were he rose through the ranks, from Technical Officer for HIV C&T to Country Manager. He joined Zimbabwe Health Interventions in October 2021 as the Chief of Party for the USAID funded PEPFAR HIV prevention, care, and treatment project. As Chief of Party he provides overall direction, thought leadership and management to the Project. He led the implementation of the HIV prevention, care, and treatment program to increase the availability, and to improve the quality, of care and support services for persons living with HIV. Through his work, Dr. Tichaona has contributed to Zimbabwe being an early adopter of novel solutions and innovations such as point-of-care CD4 (POC CD4), including Omega VISITECT AHD CD4, POC Early Infant Diagnosis and POC viral load, nurse-lead ART initiation, and decentralization of ART to primary health care facilities and DSD. He has vast knowledge of Zimbabwe’s health system, having worked at all levels of the health cascade. Dr. Tichaona is a member of several national, regional, and global TWGs/committees (e.g., eMTCT national validation committee, WHO Child and Adolescent TB working group, AHD TWG). He has many peer-reviewed publications and won the 2015 International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa ‘Best Abstract Award.
Technical Director
Tafadzwa Priscilla Sibanda is a registered medical practitioner and Community Physician (Public Health) Specialist. She has a wealth of experience acquired in 15 years from working at all the different levels of care in the public health sector in Zimbabwe with both the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MOHCC) and the Non-Governmental Organization sector. She thrives on ensuring that the population is provided with high quality and patient-centred care in a safe and conducive. In her last assignment she served as the National Medical Director for AHF Zimbabwe and led the team that supported the MOHCC ATP in the establishment of Centres of Excellence for HIV Prevention care and Treatment within the public health sector in Zimbabwe with emphasis placed on providing comprehensive integrated care under one shop. Tafadzwa is very good at networking and has collaborated with Ministry of Health and Child Care representatives as well as other implementing partners. She has also served in several National HIV Care and Treatment Technical working Groups (TWG) including Third Line ART TWG, Advanced HIV Disease TWG and Differentiated Service Delivery TWG. Tafadzwa is very passionate about local use of routinely available data for strengthening quality of both clinical care and programme performance. She is actively involved in operations research with several presentations at national and international conferences as well as publications in peer reviewed journals.
Finance and Operations Director
Prisca is a Chartered Accountant and holder of MSc Strategic Management with over 12 years of experience working as a senior finance professional in various organizations in Research and NGO sector. She has experience in auditing, compliance, systems set up, internal controls assessments and leading highly efficient finance and operations staff. She has managed stakeholder relations and clean audits during her 12 years of work in the Research and health NGO sector. She has assisted organizations in coming up with systems that are efficient and effective in managing donor funds leading to growth of the organizations. She has worked in programs and projects supporting the Ministry of Health and Child Care in close collaboration with various funding agencies like USAID, NIH, UNICEF, EU, and BURNET – AUSAID since 2009. She is an active member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Zimbabwe and Women Chartered Accountants Network in Zimbabwe (WeCAN -Zimbabwe)
Strategic Information, Evaluation and Learning Director.
Dr Khulamuzi Nyathi is the Strategic Information, Evaluation and Learning Director at ZHI ACCE project. He is a public health specialist, with a demonstrated track record of working in the medical, administrative management and capacity building of human resource for health, building Epidemic Preparedness & Response mechanism whilst maintaining Critical Basic Services Provision. He has over 18 years’ experience working at all tiers of the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) from rural health facilities, to district, provincial/city and national levels and commands an excellent working knowledge of Zimbabwe’s health management systems. He holds a Masters Degree in Public Health, one Diploma in HIV Management, and another in Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing as well as being a medical doctor since year 2004. He has collaborated on thought leadership, knowledge sharing and technical assistance to the MoHCC as a Results Based Financing Health Specialist for the World Bank and Government of Zimbabwe co-funded Health Sector Development Support Project seconded to the Programme Coordination Unit by Cordaid. Prior to that he worked as the Assistant Director of Health Services in the Personal Health Branch of the City of Bulawayo’s Health Services Department
