Giten Khwairakpam

Giten Khwairakpam is currently the Community and Policy Program Manager at amfAR’s TREAT Asia programme in Bangkok, Thailand. He has been working on improving HIV and hepatitis C treatment access, advocating for price reductions, scaling up of national responses, and improving regulatory uptake of direct-acting antivirals in South and South East Asia. He also serves as a trainer on viral hepatitis events with regional and national community networks.

Giten has been a member of World Health Organization’s Global Guidelines Development Group on hepatitis B and hepatitis C besides being a member of the Expert Advisory group on hepatitis C with the Medicines Patent Pool. He also has served in different technical groups on viral hepatitis in WHO WPRO and SEARO region. He has been a resource person and key note speaker in various national, regional and global viral hepatitis and HIV related events. He was also profiled as a Change Maker for hepatitis C by the Economist Intelligence Unit in 2016.