Yunia Mayaja – IAVI Fellowship

Yunia Mayaja, joined the Desmond Tutu HIIV Foundation as a 3 month IAVI Fellow in 2016, from Uganda. She worked with her mentor Dr. Rebecca Marcus, on a project relating to viral suppression in Adolescents living with HIV and analysed data to establish factors relating to ART regimen choices. Yunia contributed greatly to the behavioural scientist team, who continued to use the research Yunia contributed to during her time at DTHF, after she had left.

Yunia is now working in a research institute working on HIV Prevention for key populations.