Dr Rossana A. Ditangco

Rossana A. Ditangco is an internist and infectious disease specialist. She is a medical specialist and HIV Research Program Lead at the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine. She was a fellow of the Arthur Ashe Endowment for the Defeat of AIDS on clinical management of HIV at Cornell University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Global Health and Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Japan.

Rossana A. Ditangco is currently the principal investigator for the Philippines site of the TREAT ASIA and Asia Pacific HIV Observational Database Study and the substudy on acquired and transmitted HIV drug resistance. She helped establish the Philippines HIV drug resistance monitoring programme. She was the principal investigator of the first and only HIV incidence study among men who have sex with men in the Philippines and the pilot study on pre-exposure prophylaxis among men who have sex with men.

Her current research includes demonstration research on HIV and hepatitis C virus coinfection and continuum of HIV care for men who have sex with men. She is the course director for various training programmes on HIV and AIDS management. She is a member of the technical working group of the national HIV/ STI Prevention Program of the Department of Health and has led the development of national HIV management guidelines.

Rossana A. Ditangco has numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals on HIV treatment–related research.