Natasha Bilimoria
Title
President
Organization
Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Natasha F. Bilimoria is president of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, where she leads the organization’s efforts to educate, engage, and mobilize American decision-makers on the important work of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria to end the worldwide burden of these three diseases. Friends seeks to build a sustained commitment to supporting the Global Fund and the fight against the three diseases by focusing these efforts on decision-makers in Washington. Ms. Bilimoria joined Friends in April 2005 after serving as senior public policy officer at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and has an extensive background working on global health issues, including international HIV/AIDS.
At the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Bilimoria led efforts to ensure maximum funding for global programs to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, as well as programs to provide care and treatment for entire families. In addition, she was instrumental in expanding the Foundation’s focus from programs preventing mother-to-child transmission to comprehensive programs that bring care and treatment to HIV-positive children and adults worldwide.
Prior to that, Ms. Bilimoria spent four years in the Clinton Administration, serving from 2000-2001 as a senior advisor in the U.S. Department of Treasury advising senior Administration officials on domestic economic development issues. From 1999 to 2000, as policy advisor for the National Economic Council, she formulated and analyzed economic development policies for the Administration's FY2001 federal budget; from 1997 to 1999 she served as a social science research analyst for the Social Security Administration, where she was a recipient of the Associate Commissioner Awards (1999) for exceptional performance. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago and has a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Posts By Natasha Bilimoria
October 19, 2011 / Natasha Bilimoria
A to Z Textile Mills in Kisongo, Tanzania, is a special place. What was founded with just two sewing machines has blossomed into the largest producer of insecticide-treated nets for the prevention of malaria.
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October 17, 2011 / Natasha Bilimoria
As I mentioned in my most recent post, last week Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria had the honor of hosting South Africa’s Reverend Canon Desmond Lambrechts in Washington, D.C.
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October 03, 2011 / Natasha Bilimoria
In June 2006, I had the honor of spending five days touring Global Fund sites in South Africa with Jack Valenti, my friend and the first President of Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
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August 23, 2011 / Natasha Bilimoria
Over the past decade, the story of despair and suffering that once defined malaria has been replaced by one of health and hope. We’re no longer fighting a losing battle. Every day we gain new ground in the effort to prevent and cure the disease, one of the biggest killers of young children in poor and developing countries. In fact, we are working to eliminate malaria in endemic countries by 2015.
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