Manager, AIDS Campaign Team for Africa
The World Bank
Dr. Zewdie, an Ethopian national, is the principal spokesperson for the World Bank’s participation in global action against HIV/AIDS. She plays a lead role in developing, implementing, and evaluating World Bank projects involving HIV/AIDS and also serves as the head of the AIDS Campaign Team for Africa (ACTafrica), a multi-sectorial unit created to mainstream HIV/AIDS into the Bank’s operations in the Africa region. Before joining the Bank in 1994, Dr. Zewdie was deputy regional director of the AIDS control and prevention project of Family Health International in Nairobi, Kenya. She will be speaking on the issues surrounding the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the potential impact on food production in Africa.