Raminta Stuikyte is a public health practitioner and social justice advocate of more than 20 years focusing on HIV, TB, hepatitis, access to medicines and human rights.
In 2000s, as the founding executive director of Eurasian Harm Reduction Network, she helped to develop approaches to reducing harms related to drug use and policies in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Raminta has been supporting health diplomacy efforts for advancing political solutions to the national responses to HIV, TB, hepatitis and underserved populations in EECA as the Senior Advisor to the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS (2013-2017) and UNAIDS and WHO/Europe Advisor in the region (2018-ongoing).
Until 2019 she served in the UNAIDS Reference Group on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights and from 2020 in the Technical Review Panel of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. She has been an advisor and a consultant to Open Society Foundations, UNDP, WHO, Harm Reduction International, Frontline AIDS, Eurasian Network of People who Use Drugs, and others. Raminta is a member of the Combination Prevention Committee of European AIDS Treatment Group.
