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AIHA’s Twinning Center Program is in Support of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) WASHINGTON, DC, March 30, 2007—The American International Health Alliance (AIHA) announced today that Amanda Gibbons, PhD, MPH, will assume new responsibilities as the Director of the HIV/AIDS Twinning Center, effective April 1. Dr. Gibbons succeeds Donna Anderson, PhD, who led the establishment and implementation of the Twinning Center in 2005. She recently retired in Denver, Colorado. Prior to joining AIHA as the Deputy Director of the Twinning Center in January 2006, Dr. Gibbons served as the Director of Operations for Axios Foundation, Tanzania. Prior to joining Axios, she was the technical advisor for Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS and acting Deputy Division Chief for the Technical Leadership and Research Division, Office of HIV/AIDS, United States Agency for International Development (USAID). She also served as liaison for the Office to MTCT and Care and Support partners at the White House, Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Management and Budget, UNICEF, and the World Health Organization. Dr. Gibbons earned a PhD in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Prior to returning to academics for her doctoral degree, she worked as a fellow with the National Immunization Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). At the Kentucky Department for Public Health, she trained TB nurses throughout the state, providing TB resources to local health departments, and translating for Spanish-speaking TB clients. Dr. Gibbons began her public health career with the Peace Corps in 1993 where she initiated a community nutrition project to combat malnutrition in Nicaragua. Dr. Anderson came to the Twinning Center from CDC where she served as chief of the Division of STD Prevention, National Center of HIV, STD, and TB Prevention’s Training and Health Communication Branch. For the past two years, she has been instrumental in introducing AIHA to the US government and other key stakeholders in the PEPFAR focus countries; navigating a new relationship with HRSA; engaging new US and African partners; establishing Twinning Center activities including the Volunteer Healthcare Corps; and managing programs to ensure they continue to deliver high quality service and are responsive to the partners, US government, and country goals and objectives. The HIV/AIDS Twinning Center develops and supports twinning partnerships and other volunteer-driven activities that strengthen human and organizational capacity to scale up and expand HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment as part of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. The Twinning Center was established by the American International Health Alliance with funding support from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the US Department of Health and Human Services. For more information on the HIV/AIDS Twinning Center, visit www.twinningagainstaids.org. Created in 1992 by a consortium of major healthcare provider associations and professional medical education organizations, AIHA establishes and manages programs and twinning partnerships between health-related institutions in the United States and their counterparts in Africa, Asia, Eurasia, and the Caribbean. For more information about AIHA, visit our Web site at www.aiha.com.