Manju Chatani, Senior Program Manager

Manju joined AVAC in 2009 as a Senior Program Manager with a focus on partnership management and capacity strengthening. Currently, she oversees the HIV Prevention Research Advocacy Fellowship, supports the Women's HIV Prevention Tracking Project, and is also AVAC's liaison to several partner groups and collaborative projects.

Manju has worked in the HIV field and in e-advocacy for over 15 years now. She co-founded the African Microbicides Advocacy Group in 2003 - a network that advocates for more HIV prevention options for African women - which she coordinated till 2008 and is currently a Steering Committee member. Prior to that, she worked with Health & Development Networks, an organization she co-founded, facilitating information-sharing amongst the international civil society involved in AIDS work. She has worked as community mobilizer in Ghana, programme manager in South Africa and Thailand, networking manager in Switzerland and a HIV case-manager in Hawaii. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals and she has a Master's degree in Public Health. Manju is from Ghana and currently resides in Northampton, MA in the US.