Our leadership team

Prof. Harry Hausler is the Chief Executive Officer of TB HIV Care and has served on the board since 2007. Harry is a family physician, HIV clinician and preventive medicine specialist with more than 30 years of international public health experience implementing and evaluating integrated tuberculosis (TB) and HIV programs.

Harry has a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University and a PhD from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Prior to working with TB HIV Care, he worked with the Global TB Programme of the World Health Organization in Geneva and as the National TB/HIV Technical Advisor in the South African Department of Health. He has also managed medical services in refugee camps in Rwanda and conducted research on TB preventive treatment and prevention of mother to child transmission in Haiti.
Harry served as a member of the World Health Organisation Civil Society Task Force on TB from 2019 to 2023 and the Chair of the Civil Society Forum (CSF) and Co-Chair of the Provincial Council on AIDS and TB in the Western Cape from 2021 to 2024. He is a member of the National TB Think Tank, the CSF TB Task Team and TB Technical Working Group of the South African National AIDS Council.

Yumna Gamieldien is a qualified Chartered Accountant (CA(SA)) and holds a Bachelor of Business Science (Finance) Degree and a Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting (PGDA) from the University of Cape Town.

Yumna joined TB HIV Care in 2017 when she accepted the role of Financial Manager after three years in the corporate sector. She quickly progressed through the organisation to hold the position of Finance Director – where she was central to helping the executive team navigate TB HIV Care’s growth, expansion, and organisational development.

Today, Yumna is TB HIV Care’s Chief Financial Officer, overseeing the support units within the organisation. These include finance, human resources, operations, information systems and technology, and grants and legal.

Dr Laurene Booyens is the Chief Programme Officer of TB HIV Care, overseeing programmes, and the M&E and Quality departments. As an executive committee and board member, she plays an integral part in the organisational governance and strategic development of TB HIV Care.

Laurene concluded her MBChB degree at the University of Pretoria (SA) in 2008 and further business management studies in 2019 at the University of Reading (Henley Business School). She has completed training through the University of Cape Town in 2020 as a mediator for litigation pertaining to medical negligence.

Prior to joining TB HIV Care, Dr Laurene Booyens worked as a clinician in both the private and public sectors, involved in the disciplines of paediatrics, primary health care, urology, emergency medicine and minimally invasive surgery. She has been involved in the not-for-profit sector, in a senior management capacity, since 2014 and has worked in various programme areas, the most noteworthy of which includes VMMC, Key Populations and Care and Treatment.

Laurene is passionate about optimising business management principles within the complex context of the clinical sector by incorporating technical, operational and strategic perspectives. She strongly identifies with the vision of attaining maximal and sustainable impact for vulnerable and less fortunate populations. For this reason, her career goals remain to provide sound leadership and an enabling work environment to achieve comprehensive, safe and quality clinical service delivery, where it matters most.

Hildegarde Badenhorst is a qualified Chartered Accountant (CA(SA)) and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting as well as Honours in Accounting.

Hildegarde joined TB HIV Care in April 2020 as Finance Manager, where she worked closely with our head office and programme teams. Her passion, experience, and knowledge of the public health sector has seen her rise through the ranks, and she now manages the finance department of TB HIV Care as our Finance Director.

Sandile Prusente is TB HIV Care’s Care and Treatment Programme Director. In this role, he provides leadership, operational and strategic direction to the programme and collaborates closely with funders and the Eastern Cape Department of Health.

Sandile has a nursing background with diplomas in general, community, midwifery and psychiatric nursing sciences. He is a public health specialist (MSc Med) with more than 12 years of experience in clinical and research programmes.

In 2007, Sandile joined the Foundation for Professional Development (FPD) as a nurse clinician (HIV/TB) and later worked with the International Centre for Aids Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP) in patient clinical management.

Sandile joined TB HIV Care in 2009. He served in various positions including as a site manager (Mthatha) and a regional manager (Eastern Cape) (HTS/PP Prev). In 2018, he was responsible for technical support as the clinical technical lead for the Care and Treatment Programme. Sandile’s goal has always been to provide sound leadership that creates an enabling work environment for all those in need of development.

Mfezi is TB HIV Care’s Key Populations Programme Director and leads the strategic direction for providing a comprehensive HIV prevention package of services to sex workers and people who inject drugs (PWID) across different provinces in the country.

Mfezi has more than ten years of experience in programme coordination within the HIV/AIDS field and has worked with both the South African Police Service and orphaned and vulnerable children.

Mfezi has a BA in Social Work and Diploma in HIV Management. He joined TB HIV Care in 2014 as the Sex Worker Project Coordinator in Nelson Mandela Bay. He was promoted to Site Manager in the HIV Prevention Programme, where he focused on comprehensive HIV prevention, care and support to sex workers and people who use drugs (PWUD). He also led and implemented research projects focusing on female sex workers operating in Nelson Mandela Bay.

Joel Steingo developed an interest in HIV and TB as a major public health threat to South Africa whilst working as a young medical doctor in the rural Eastern Cape. Frustrated by health systems deficiencies, he decided to study for a Masters (MPH) at Johns Hopkins University where he focused on issues related to global health, infectious disease epidemiology, and health programme design and implementation in under-resourced settings.

For the past 15 years, Joel has worked in the fields of primary HIV care and prevention, operational and clinical research, and HIV programme management. He joined TB HIV Care in March 2020 when he took on the role of Programme Director for our Correctional Services Programme. Today, Joel oversees the planning, monitoring, analysis and assessment of all our research projects, using SI to design and develop our programmes for maximum reach, engagement and success.

Jenny Mcloughlin is TB HIV Care’s Priority Populations Prevention (PPPrev) Programme Director. In this role, she will provide leadership, operational and strategic direction to the programme and continues to collaborate closely with funders and the Department of Health.

Jenny has a nursing background and has worked in the NGO field and the South African public health system for more than 30 years.

Jenny has been responsible for PEPFAR-funded programmes involving multiple partners for more than ten years, first at the University of the Western Cape, where she was responsible for the coordination of projects and budget management. In 2009, Jenny joined TB HIV Care (THC) as a site manager (Harry Gwala), where the funded project known as “Project Integrate” won an Impumelelo Social Innovations Platinum Award. Jenny has served the organisation in various positions, including as a re-engineering primary health care (PHC) specialist, quality improvement advisor and a technical lead.

Jenny’s goal has always been to improve health outcomes by expanding the role of community agents who work in teams with health professionals in designated catchment areas. This was born out of the re-engineering PHC model, based on a ward system started in KwaZulu-Natal.

Ntombifuthi Luthuli is a qualified public health practitioner who holds a Master in Public Health. She is a seasoned professional nurse with a BCur in Nursing Education & Nursing Management. She completed her diploma in General Nursing Science, Community, Midwifery and Psychiatry at RK Khan Nursing College.

Ntombifuthi joined TB HIV Care in November 2019 as a Site Manager for the Sex Worker Project in uMgungundlovu and progressed to be the KZN Assistant Programme Manager for the TB Programme in November 2021. She later joined the PPPrev Programme in May 2023 as a Quality Improvement Technical Lead and was acting Regional Manager for the eThekwini district, where she was instrumental in forging strategic multisectoral partnerships with political leadership and local partners working in the HIV response in the district.

Ntombifuthi has extensive experience working with vulnerable populations and is passionate about key populations, making her the perfect fit for our Correctional Services Programme.

Amanda Kweyama joined TB HIV Care in 2022 and is the Human Resources Director. Amanda oversees the HR department, which includes wellness, talent acquisition and retention and employee relations

Amanda has an honours degree in Human Resource Management and Industrial Psychology. She has significant and very relevant experience working within the non-profit health sector.

Amanda is a dedicated and passionate HR professional who believes that partnering with a business or organisational needs is key for the success and integration of the HR process within the organisation.

She is passionate about people and believes the employee is central to our organisation and the services we offer. She believes that a good balance between employer and employee engagement is critical to ensure the success of any organisation.

Anje Pretorius is the Monitoring and Evaluation Director for TB HIV Care. She oversees M&E efforts across all programmes in the organisation, including Care & Treatment, TB, Key Populations, DREAMS and other community interventions. Anje collaborates with the Information Systems team to develop and roll out new digital solutions to data collection, analytics, reporting and visualisation.

Anje has a Masters in Monitoring and Programme Evaluation from the University of Cape Town.

Anje has worked in the M&E field since 2007 on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Global Fund, USAID, corporate and government-funded projects. She previously worked for the Desmond Tutu TB Centre and Ndlovu Care Group. Anje has a particular interest in user-friendly reporting and analytics, data-driven decision making and quality improvement.

Arno Olivier is the Information and Technology Manager. Arno guides TB HIV Care’s technology adoption and implementation and plays a pivotal role in the day-to-day running – and success – of our projects and programmes. An accomplished IT professional with a love for harnessing technology to drive operational excellence, streamline processes and elevate productivity, Arno joined TB HIV Care after more than 16 years in the construction and mining sectors. With a particular passion for intricate, ever-changing environments, Arno is well-placed for his new role in the public health/NGO space.

Alison Best is a passionate TB advocate and manages TB HIV Care’s TB projects, including OneImpact South Africa.

Alison has a Masters in Public Health from the University of the Western Cape. Her thesis explored the knowledge, attitudes and practices around TB and HIV among inmates in correctional centres in the Western and Eastern Cape. Prior to that she completed an honours degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Cape Town.

Alison has worked for TB HIV Care for over thirteen years, first in the advocacy, communication and social mobilisation (ACSM) unit and then in the communications unit.

Prior to working at TB HIV Care, Alison wrote, coordinated and occasionally filmed, for various documentary making companies and was a board member of Women in Film and Television South Africa. She is a strong writer and has written documentary narratives that were sold to the BBC and National Geographic Television.