Sibongile Ndlela-Simelane

Sibongile Ndlela-Simelane was Minister for Health for Eswatini from 2013 to 2018 under the government of Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini. During her time as minister she led calls for lessons from southern Africa's HIV response to be applied to malaria. She also commissioned on World TB Day in 2017 a national drug resistance survey.

Quotes

• Each border in southern Africa has different challenges. However, malaria parasite movement through mobile and migrant populations remains a key challenge for all of us. The new Global Fund grant will support us in working together to tackle this critical cross-border issue.
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• Fast Tracking ending AIDS will require reaching the hard-to-reach through decentralization of services to where people are using the Gogo centres in every chiefdom, ensuring that no one is left behind.
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• Changing cultural behaviour is very complex, so we decided to use the aspects of the Swazi culture and the roles of chiefs that could be beneficial. We have had chiefs as champions, who have come forward as living with HIV and encouraged people to test, and to access HIV prevention and treatment.
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