Anurita Bains

Anurita brings more than 15 years of experience in international development and health. In the various positions she has held in the past decade, she has provided advice, strategic direction and analysis at senior levels of policy-making on public health and development, with particular expertise on and interest in women’s health and rights. Currently, she is the regional advisor on HIV/AIDS for Unicef’s East and Southern Africa regional office. Before that she was the country director of the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Rwanda, where she and her team provided strategic, technical and policy support to that country’s government in areas of HIV/AIDS, health financing, human resources for health, and nutrition.