Christopher Akolo

Dr. Christopher Akolo (MD, MSc, FWACP), is an infectious disease physician, currently with FHI 360 as the Technical Director, HIV Department and Technical Director with the PEPFAR/USAID-funded Meeting Target and Achieving Epidemic Control (EpiC) project currently being implemented across over 31 countries globally. He has over 29 years of clinical experience, including over 20 years’ experience with implementation of HIV prevention, care, and treatment programs in resource limited settings and provision of HIV services to key populations (KP), especially men who have sex with men and female sex workers. Within the past 16 years, he has supported the U.K. Medical Research Council’s HIV research program in The Gambia, worked as a clinician with the HIV Unit/Jefferiss Wing of St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London, served as the Technical Advisor clinical mentoring and medical education with the Institute of Human Virology (IHV) at the University of Maryland Baltimore, and has been part of several global teams, including those that revised the current WHO STI Guidelines, WHO KP Guidelines, and the current WHO guidelines on isoniazid preventive therapy. His areas of interest include KP programming, antiretroviral therapy, HIV treatment failure, PrEP, TB, STI services, operations research, and stigma reduction within health facilities.