Nicola Willis is the founder and Executive Director of Zvandiri, based in Zimbabwe.
She trained as a paediatric / adolescent HIV specialist nurse in the UK before then working in Ghana, South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe, assisting government, health facilities and communities to establish paediatric and adolescent HIV treatment, care and support services.
She is the founding Director of the Zvandiri programme in Zimbabwe which has evolved in to a national, evidence-based model of peer-led, differentiated service delivery for children, adolescents and young people with HIV.
She is particularly interested in the mental health needs of children and adolescents living with HIV and has participated in a number of global consultation meetings on ALHIV.
She is a member of the World Health Organisation’s HIV Guidelines Development Group and co-Chair of WHO’s adolescent service delivery working group.
