César Antonio Nuñez. Director of Regional Support Team for Latin America Joint United Nations AIDS (UNAIDS)

In his present role, Dr Núñez works to strengthen the ability of the joint UN country teams on AIDS’ to support the AIDS response in the Latin American countries.

Dr Núñez also works with regional partners from civil society, donor countries and technical cooperation agencies, offering leadership, coordination and support to the development and operation of technical cooperation clusters.

He brings over twenty years of experience in management of sexually transmitted infections and HIV programmes with extensive knowledge of regional epidemiological trends of HIV and the Latin America and Caribbean response.

Dr Núñez received his Master of Public Health (MPH) from the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He is a former Director of the Honduras National AIDS Control Program, and he also has served as Deputy Chief of Party at USAID Program for strengthening the Central American response to HIV (PASCA) where he was responsible for the implementation of the policy dialogue component of the program in seven countries.