Elzette Rousseau is a socio-behavioural scientist at the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation (DTHF) and a PhD candidate in behavioural medicine at the University of Cape Town. She has more than 10 years of experience implementing and evaluating community-based access to new HIV prevention biomedical technologies and adolescent co-created sexual health services and is part of South Africa’s National PrEP Technical Working Group. Currently, Elzette is co-investigator of Fast-PrEP a bridge-to-scale implementation science project providing a choice of PrEP products (oral, vaginal and injectable PrEP) delivered to >20 000 adolescent and young people through differentiated models including mobile clinics, government facilities, courier delivery and peer PrEP clubs.
