Georges Tiendrebeogo

Georges Tiendrebeogo is a medical doctor and a specialist in social pediatrics, tropical medicine and public health. He works as a Senior Advisor, HIV AIDS at KIT (Royal Tropical Institute) Development Policy & Practice and he has over seventeen years of experience with strengthening STI/HIV/AIDS programmes and networking in Africa (Senegal, Togo, Benin, Mali, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Central Africa Republic, DR Congo, Kenya, Madagascar, Uganda, Nigeria, Eritrea, South Africa, Malawi, Namibia) and the Caribbean/Latin America (Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Brazil), Asia (China, Thailand) and Europe (Netherlands, France, Belgium, Switzerland).

Dr Tiendrebeogo has extensive experience in policy development, strategic planning and evaluation. His expertise includes capacity building, social mobilisation and service organization; development of evidence and theory-based behaviour change communication strategies; backstopping and evaluating the projects and programmes of multilateral and bilateral donors, as well as those of national, NGO/CBO and faith-based organisations. He has published several reports on HIV/AIDS prevention and impact mitigation including subjects such as sex education, voluntary counselling and testing, mainstreaming, care and support.

Dr Tiendrebeogo contributed to the UNAIDS Local Response Initiatives and numerous national and regional HIV/AIDS programmes supported by organizations such as UNDP, European Commission, World Bank, and USAID. He was a core team member of the UNAIDS Five-Year Evaluation, the DFID-supported evaluation of the impact of HIV/AIDS on livelihoods in Benue State, Nigeria, and he led the Namibian Medium Term Plan External Review. He became member of UNAIDS’ M&E and Country Response Information System resource network, and the International Technical Exchange Network of the Hope for African Children Initiative in 2004. He is acting on behalf of UNAIDS as consultant to the Office of the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for the Great Lakes region since 2004 [Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS into the agenda of the International Conference on Peace, Security, Democracy and Development, Humanitarian and Social aspects in the Great Lakes region].

Currently Dr Tiendrebeogo started a PhD research into HAART [adherence] in Burkina Faso and Mali within the project 'Development of ART adherence-enhancing interventions in Burkina Faso and Mali' funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.