Dr Francis Jim Ndowa

Dr Francis J. Ndowa is based in Zimbabwe as Director and Physician (Specialist Dermato-venereologist) at the Skin & Genito-Urinary Medicine Clinic in Harare.

He is an international consultant on surveillance, management and control of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), as well as on containment of antimicrobial resistance in STIs.

He is the Regional Director of the Africa and Middle East & North Africa Branch of the International Union against STIs (IUSTI Africa-MENA).

He is a member of the WHO SRH/HRP Scientific and Technical Advisory Group and a member of the ReAct Toolbox International Advisory Group on antimicrobial resistance.

He served as a member of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Antimicrobial Resistance from September 2013 to September 2016.

He has a medical degree from the University of Birmingham Medical School, UK, and postgraduate diplomas in Venereology and Dermatology from London, UK. He has worked in the National Health Services in the UK, the Ministry of Health and Child Care in Zimbabwe and in Geneva from 1996, initially, in the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and then in the World Health Organization working on Controlling Sexually Transmitted & Reproductive Tract Infections until the age of mandatory retirement in 2012.