Michel Kazatchkine

Michel Kazatchkine is a French physician best known for his work in international AIDS treatment issues. Since February 2007 he has been director of the The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

Professional history

Kazatchkine graduated medical school at Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital in Paris then studied immunology at the Pasteur Institute. He first treated AIDS patients in 1983, and by 1985 had founded a clinic in Paris specializing in AIDS treatment.^[1]

Kazatchkine directed the French National Agency for AIDS Research between 1998-2005. He is a member of Médecins du Monde and one of the founders of Nova Dona, which is an non-profit organization giving services to drug users in Paris.^[1]

In 2005-6 Kazatchkine served The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria as a vice chair, then he became director of the same organization in 2007.^[1]

Starting in 2004 Kazatchkine became Chair of the World Health Organization's Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee on HIV/AIDS. At the same time he also began serving as a member of the WHO's Scientific and Technical Advisory Group on tuberculosis.^[1]

In February 2005 Kazatchkine became France's HIV/AIDS and communicable diseases global ambassador.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} "MICHEL KAZATCHKINE". theglobalfund.org. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. http://www.theglobalfund.org/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=6021. Retrieved 7 July 2011. 

External links

• Kazatchkine gives a speech on inequality of AIDS treatment in the decade since 2000
• speech at a meeting of the United States Council on Foreign Relations
• statement on corruption