Penninah Iutung Amor, M.D.

Bureau Chief, Africa

Penninah Iutung Amor, MD serves as the Bureau Chief for AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) Africa where she is responsible for the management and strategic leadership of AHF’s programs in nine African countries. Before becoming Bureau Chief her efforts as Country Program Director for AHF Uganda Cares helped build the program into the largest testing and treatment program of its kind in the world. Dr. Iutung works daily to develop similar programs in South Africa, Zambia, Swaziland, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda and other African countries. Prior to her appointment as Country Program Director, she acted as National Medical Director for AHF -Uganda Cares and Medical Officer in-Charge for AHF-Uganda Cares Masaka Healthcare Center. Dr. Iutung served as Medical Officer at Virika Mission Hospital in Fort Portal, Uganda before joining AHF.

Dr. Iutung is also 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 presented on streamlining HIV testing models in resource-constrained settings. She has also presented at the at the XVI International AIDS conference in Vienna, Austria, the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada ,the ICASA Conference in Abuja, Nigeria in November 2005 and the Uganda Medical Association Conference in 2004.

Dr. Iutung will receive a Master of Science Degree in Infectious Diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London in 2012. She completed her Bachelor of Science Degree in Human Medicine and Surgery from the Mbarara University of Science and Technology.