Nittaya Phanuphak is Executive Director at the Institute of HIV Research and Innovation (IHRI) in Bangkok, Thailand. She has deep interest in Key Population-Led Health Services (KPLHS) which empower lay providers who are members of key population communities to perform HIV/STI testing and dispense PrEP/PEP, ART and STI treatment to their peers. She currently works towards national accreditation and domestic financing systems for lay providers in order to expand KPLHS and ensure its sustainability. Beyond the integrated HIV, STI, and hepatitis services delivered in KPLHS, she strongly advocates for gradual additions of substance use, mental health, stigma and discrimination reduction, and human rights/legal support services into the model.
During the last mile to ending HIV in Thailand, she has now focused seriously on the tangible actions to eliminate intersectional and multi-level stigma and discrimination through the use of a country-wide Undetectable equals Untransmittable (U=U) implementation strategies. Â
She has been the International AIDS Society (IAS) Governing Council Representative of Asia and the Pacific Islands since 2018. She is also the Deputy Editor of the Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS) and the Joint Editor of Sexual Health.
