Alexandre Menezes,

Alex Menezes has been an AIDS advocate with Grupo Pela Vidda Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, since 1993. He was involved in organizing several national and international community focused AIDS vaccine meetings and other advocacy and educational activities in the field. Before moving to the US in early 2002, he was a member of Brazil's National AIDS Vaccine Committee and part of the CAB for the HVTN site in Rio de Janeiro. Originally trained as a psychologist, Alex has two master's degrees in communications, one from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a second one from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He currently works for IAVI's Country and Regional Programs Department.