ITPC is led by a Global Team
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Solange Baptiste
Executive Director
Solange Baptiste is ITPC’s Executive Director. She leads community activists and allies across the globe to deliver ITPC’s mission to enable people in need to access optimal and affordable HIV treatment. Solange brings over 15 years of global program management, advocacy and monitoring and evaluation experience to ITPC. She earned a B.S. in Biology from Tuskegee University and her Sc.M. in Population and International Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Before joining ITPC, she worked on health and development projects across Latin America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia that allowed her to gain a depth of knowledge in social and political epidemiology, health financing, health education and community systems strengthening.
Based in Johannesburg, South Africa | Email: sbaptiste@itpcglobal.org
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Wame Jallow
Director of Global Programs and Advocacy
Wame Jallow is ITPC’s Director of Global Programs and Advocacy, overseeing and leading all of ITPC’s programs. Jallow has led HIV projects funded by USAID/PEPFAR, DFID, Global Fund, International AIDS Society (IAS), Robert Carr Fund (RCF), EU, et al. Her wide range of expertise includes resource mobilization, policy development, advocacy, community dialogue, community and health systems strengthening, and costing analysis.
Based in Gaborone, Botswana | Email: wmosime@itpcglobal.org
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Collen Ngundu
Director of Finance
Collen Ngundu has over 20 years of experience in global finance and operations, managing complex and regional multi-year and multi-million-dollar donor-funded development programmes in Africa, accountable for financial and governance oversights of entities in South Africa and several of African countries. Collen has qualifications in developing and implementing financial controls and process, operational policy, process, and system efficiency design as well as information technology, grants management, human resources, and corporate support including corporate governance, risk management and procurement & contract management. Before joining ITPC, Collen worked with US government implementing partners, DFAT, SDC, the Global Fund and local NGOs in the recent past. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma-Public Financial Management -University of London (CeFiMS, SOAS), and a bachelor’s degree- Business Administration Major-Accounting from Solusi University, Bulawayo Zimbabwe.
Based in Johannesburg, South Africa | Email: cngundu@itpcglobal.org
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Othoman Mellouk
Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines Lead
Othoman, an orthodontist by profession, currently leads ITPC’s works on overcoming intellectual property-related barriers to access to medicines. Before joining ITPC, he worked for the Association de Lutte Contre le Sida (ALCS) in Morocco, where he participated in the development of the first prevention program targeting men having sex with men in MENA. From 2002 to 2010 he was the chair of the Marrakech city branch of ALCS, and was in charge of international relations of ALCS. He is one of the most active advocates for access to treatment in the MENA region with a particular focus on the question of intellectual property rights and their effect on access to treatment. He has published several articles and reports about access to medicines in Morocco and the MENA region and has been involved in research on monitoring access to treatment progress with the Treatment Monitoring and Advocacy Project of ITPC.
Based in Marrakech, Morocco | Email: omellouk@itpcglobal.org
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Alain Manouan
Community Monitoring Lead
Alain is ITPC’s Community Treatment Monitoring Project Director. Alain brings 25 years of extensive experience in the international development sector and has been involved in the HIV response for around two decades. Alain’s areas of expertise include HIV and health programing, leadership and program management, program analysis and evaluation, Alain has worked for the United Nations programs, the NGO sector and governments. Before joining ITPC, Alain worked for International HIV/AIDS Alliance as Regional Manager for Africa. He has a Master Degree in Geography with a specialization in Populations Study from the National University of Cote d’Ivoire, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Leadership Practice and Responsibility from Lancaster University.
Based in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire | Email: amanouan@itpcglobal.org
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Bactrin Killingo
Treatment Education Co-Lead
Bactrin is ITPC’s Treatment Education Co-lead. A medical doctor by training, he has been involved in community HIV treatment education and advocacy for the past 10 years. As a palliative care practitioner, Dr. Killingo has been involved with resource-poor communities facing insurmountable challenges with regard to access to essential HIV medicines and has mobilized communities to advocate for increased access to HIV related services. In addition, he has been instrumental in empowering communities with the knowledge and skills needed to mobilize resources and take charge not only of the small projects they run but also of their own health.
Based in Meru, Kenya | Email: bkillingo@itpcglobal.org
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Tracy Swan
Treatment Education Co-Lead
Tracy Swan has been working on public health and social justice issues since 1990, when she began doing HIV-related work; in 1998 she also became a hepatitis C activist. She has worked on a range of issues, including improving drug development and access to medicines. Ms. Swan has been an outreach worker, headed an HIV counseling and testing program; designed an HCV education and case management program; done direct service work and treatment education at community health centers, hospitals, syringe exchange and addiction treatment programs, correctional facilities and homeless shelters. She has worked for Treatment Action Group and the Medicines Sans Frontiers Access Campaign, served as a community representative to the FDA antiviral advisory committee and the AIDS Clinical Trials Group, and as a member of US and WHO hepatitis C treatment guidelines panels.
Based in Brooklyn, USA | Email: tswan@itpcglobal.org
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Leonard Moyo
Grant and Compliance Manager
Leonard Moyo is ITPC’s Grant and Compliance Manager. He is passionate about creating positive change in the lives of communities, and he serves in the grants management and compliance functions for the UNTAID Grant. Before joining ITPC, he worked on finance and grants management in Southern Africa, East Africa and South Asia and this has allowed him to gain a depth of knowledge in grant management, finance, compliance and design and strengthening of internal controls. Leonard brings over 19 years of finance, accounting and grant management experience to ITPC. He is a Certified Chartered Accountant and holds an Msc in Professional Accountancy from the University of London.
Based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Email: lmoyo@itpcglobal.org
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Helen Etya’ale
Program Coordinator
Helen joins ITPC as Program Coordinator to support its work, across all programs, enabling access to treatment for those in need. Originally from Cameroon and Switzerland, Helen is passionate about challenging social and health inequities and has worked in the field of international development and global public health for over eight years. Prior to joining the ITPC, Helen worked with such organisations as the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance, Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology and the Journal of the International AIDS Society. Helen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from Calvin College and a Masters in Public Health from Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health.
Based in Gaborone, Botswana | Email: hetyaale@itpcglobal.org
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Ilene Boshielo
Finance and Admin Assistant
lIene Boshielo implements sound accounting principles to maintain the organization‘s accounts while upholding donor, ITPC and legal requirements. Her passion is to advocate and assist those who are in need of affordable HIV treatment through giving support to the ITPC Global Team.
Ilene has a strong background in financial accounting and financial management. Before joining ITPC, she worked at the private sector on project accounting, business unit management and gained exposure in formulating, implementing and effective functioning of internal controls.
She has a BCom Accounting Sciences degree from the University of Pretoria and is currently completing her postgraduate Diploma in Applied Accounting (CTA) at the University of South Africa.
Based in Johannesburg, South Africa | Email: iboshielo@itpcglobal.org
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Mercy Motasi
Executive Assistant
Mercy is the Assistant to the executive team at ITPC. She primarily supports the Executive Director but on a whole, ensures the smooth running and communication for our virtual team as well as in our Botswana and South Africa office. She holds a B-Tech degree in Language Practice from the Central University of Technology Free State. Mercy has 12 years’ experience as an Executive Assistant. Prior to joining the ITPC Team Mercy worked as a Personal Assistant/Executive Assistant for Sanlam, PwC and GlaxoSmithKline.
Based in Johannesburg, South Africa | Email: mmotasi@itpcglobal.org
