Healthcare Professionals
Penninah Iutung, MD
Bureau Chief, East/West Africa
Penninah Iutung, MD is currently the East/West Africa Bureau Chief for AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF). Prior to this appointment, from June 2008 to May 2009, she served as Country Program Director for AHF's Uganda Cares operation based in Kampala. Her efforts helped build Uganda Cares into AHF’s largest testing and treatment program in the world -- to date it cares for over 33,000 patients. She now uses the skills she developed in Uganda to improve programs in Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda and other countries. Additionally, she acted as National Medical Director for Uganda Cares from 2005 to 2008 and was Medical Officer In-Charge at the Uganda Cares Masaka Healthcare Center in Masaka, Uganda from 2004 to 2005. Before joining AHF, Dr. Iutung was Medical Officer at Virika Hospital Fort Portal in Virika, Uganda from 2002-2003.
In addition to her duties with Uganda Cares, Dr. Iutung is currently a member of the National Policy Committee on HIV/AIDS and Antiretroviral (ART) Therapy, the Consortium of ART Treatment Providers, Partnership for AIDS Treatment Providers, and was a committee member for the Masaka District HIV/AIDS Committee from 2004 to 2005.
She is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and attended the XVII International AIDS Conference in Mexico City in 2008 where she gave a presentation on streamlining HIV testing models in resource constrained settings. She also presented at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada in 2006. Dr. Iutung was also in attendance at the ICASA Conference in Abuja, Nigeria in November 2005 and the Uganda Medical Association Conference in 2004.
Dr. Iutung completed a medical internship in general surgery and pediatrics at the Mbarara University Teaching Hospital in Mbarara, Uganda in 2001. She began pursuing a Master of Science degree in Infectious Disease from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at the University of London in 2007, with expected completion in 2010. She received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Human Medicine and Surgery from the Mbarara University of Science and Technology in 2000.
