Anne Gathumbi

Program Manager - Health and Rights

Anne Gathumbi is a program manager with OSIEA and the Open Society Institute Law and Health Initiative. She is responsible for the organization’s work to promote legal initiatives to advance the human rights of East Africans living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. Gathumbi has more than 13 years experience working on justice and women's human rights issues in East Africa.

Gathumbi has served as a program officer both with Trocaire's East Africa Office and with the Legal Resources Foundation (pioneering a community paralegal program). She was a founding member of the Coalition on Violence Against Women, where she helped build a leading civil society network and spearheaded policy reform initiatives on women's rights issues. Gathumbi graduated from the University of Nairobi Law School and holds a postgraduate diploma in community development.

Related Information

What's Wrong with Paying Women to Use Long-Term Birth Control?
Brett Davidson and Lydia Guterman
February 21, 2011
blog BLOG  
A U.S. organization plans to pay HIV-positive women in Kenya to use long-term birth control, claiming it is the only way to prevent transmission to children. Four experts respond.

Too Controversial for Uganda
Anne Gathumbi
February 18, 2011
blog BLOG  
The brutal murder of Ugandan gay activist David Kato moved us to run a memorial tribute in local newspapers. Little did we know it would lead to a lesson in media censorship.

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