Liesl Lintvelt (LLB) is an admitted attorney in the High Court of South Africa that has extensive experience in litigating on personal injury and medical negligence claims. Seeing first hand the devastating effect that HIV/Aids has on the every day lives of people, she is very excited to be part of an organization that truly makes a difference in the fight against the epidemic.
René Kenosi is a qualified chartered accountant who provides internal audit, risk management, corporate training, and management consulting services. She is a former Chair of the Independent Board for Auditors, and has served on many Boards and Audit committees and the Advisory Council for the Minister of Home Affairs.
Having worked at Far East Rand Hospital, Voortrekker Hospital and the NHLS Cytology unit as a Medical Officer, Dr Moyahabo Mabitsi has worked in Public Health Programmes in different positions within Anova for the past eight years. She has a sound knowledge of the public health system in South Africa, particularly the primary health care system. She has been involved in implementation of TB/HIV/PMTCT policies/guidelines at Primary Health Care level; this included the rollout of the NIMART programme in Johannesburg District in 2010. In her roles as TB Technical Advisor and manager of Anova’s Johannesburg District PEPFAR programme, she has provided capacity building for DoH clinicians, and facilitated the provision of TA to sub-district and District level DoH management on implementations and review of TB/HIV and related programmes. In her current role, Dr Mabitsi provides oversight on implementation of the APACE program activities across Anova supported districts; Mopani, Capricorn, Sedibeng and Johannesburg districts. In this role, she provides leadership to, and is supported by Anova District Program Managers in the four Districts.
Susan Kekana (Degree in Nursing) is Anova’s Executive Government Liaison. She held Senior Management positions at both the Gauteng Department of Health and the City of Johannesburg. She is one of Anova’s most senior and respected managers and has mentored many of our younger managers. Susan brings to the Board a wealth of experience in the public health sector.
Helen Struthers (MSc, MBA, PhD) is the CEO of Anova and an Honorary Research Associate in the Division of Infectious Diseases & HIV Medicine, Department of Medicine at UCT. Previously she worked in the mining sector, but has worked and conducted research in the health sector since 2001 focusing on mitigating the impact of the HIV epidemic.
