Fabrizia is a medical doctor and holds a Master of Science in Tropical Medicine & International Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Fabrizia has 9 years experience working in range of infectious diseases, including TB, TB/HIV, HIV, Malaria, and COVID-19. Fabrizia’s expertise includes: TB prevention and care, clinical research, epidemiology, monitoring and evaluation and surveillance systems, and national public health policy.

Fabrizia previously worked with the WHO’s Global TB Programme and the Global HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections Programmes on the Implementation of the Global Fund Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment Strategic Initiative for people living with HIV with a family approach (TPT SI), and worked with the WHO’s Western Pacific Regional Office on the development of the Multisectoral Accountability Framework for TB (MAF-TB) and country assessments. Fabrizia has also worked as an epidemiologist with Medecins Sans Frontieres and was the TB/HIV program manager and head of monitoring and evaluation with Doctors with Africa CUAMM.

Within KNCV, Fabrizia works with the People-Centred Framework initiative: evaluating and optimising TB interventions and national TB strategic plans and policies. Fabrizia also develops and implements research to support decision and policy making, and engages with global and country partners to map and analyse epidemiological and health systems data.

Recent publications

6. 1. Bresges C, Wilson D, Fielding K, Corbett EL, Del-Greco F, Grint D, Peters J, Gupta-Wright A. Early Empirical Tuberculosis Treatment in HIV-Positive Patients Admitted to Hospital in South Africa: An Observational Cohort Study. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2021 Mar 31;8(7):ofab162. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofab162. PMID: 34327252; PMCID: PMC8314941.
   2. Di Gennaro F, Marotta C, Ramirez L, Cardoso H, Alamo C, Cinturao V, Bavaro DF, Mahotas DC, Lazzari M, Fernando C, Chimundi N, Atzori A, Chaguruca I, Tognon F, Guambe Dos Anjos H, De Meneghi G, Tribie M, Del Greco F, Namarime E, Occa E, Putoto G, Pozniak A, Saracino A. High Prevalence of Mental Health Disorders in Adolescents and Youth Living with HIV: An Observational Study from Eight Health Services in Sofala Province, Mozambique. AIDS Patient Care STDS. 2022 Apr;36(4):123-129. doi: 10.1089/apc.2022.0007. PMID: 35438520.
   3. Di Gennaro, F., Marotta, C., Ramirez, L., Cardoso, H., Chivite, A., Cinturao, V., et al. (2022). An outreach intervention against loss to follow-up among HIV-positive adolescents and youths: data from Mozambique. In Agenda Speakers and Abstracts – Medecins Sans Frontiers Scientific Day – in Southern Africa on the 25^th of October 2022 in Harare, Zimbabwe (pp.3-3). Harare : MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES (MSF).

 

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