This document provides a detailed profile and curriculum vitae for Vitalis Goodwell Chipfakacha, a public health physician with over 17 years of experience in clinical practice, public health, management of health services, HIV/AIDS prevention in Africa, and policy work. It outlines his professional experience with organizations like WHO, JICA, GIZ, the governments of Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It also lists his educational background and over 50 publications and presentations on topics related to HIV/AIDS, STDs, primary health care, tuberculosis, and more.

1. VITALIS GOODWELL CHIPFAKACHA
Southern African Development Community(SADC)
Private Bag 0095
Gaborone
Botswana
Telephone: +267 3901047 , +267 71859993 (Mobile)
Email vchipfakacha@yahoo.com, vchipfakacha@sadc.int
Profile:
Public Health physician with over seventeen years experience in both clinical practice and public health.
Practical hands on experience in curative patient care, management of district health services,
planning , implementation and administration at Provincial level.
Experience includes interaction in health care matters with civil society at the grass root
level, dealing with national level policy makers such as parliamentarians, members of the
cabinet and the private sector. Extensive experience in STD/HIV/AIDS/TB prevention in
Africa. Worked at senior level in Government, the private sector , WHO, Technical Advisor
to a GIZ ON AN HIV and AIDS Project.Currently Technical Advisor Capacity Building and
Mainstreaming HIV with the SADC Secretariat. Article reviewer for AIDS CARE on
Traditional Healing and HIV/AIDS. .
Very good interpersonal/public relations skills and good team builder and player.
Professional Experience:
Southern African Development Community: Technical Advisor on Capacity Building
and Mainstreaming HIV and AIDS: since 01-01-2007.
Japanese International Cooperation Agency: August-Dec 2006
• Advisor and consultant on the District Response to HIV and AIDS in Botswana
German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) /EPOS Health Consultants.
Technical Advisor: Botswana GTZ HIV/AIDS Project. March 2004- 31/05/2006
• Technical Advisor to Ministry of Local Government on District and Village Multi-sectoral committees.
• Technical Advisor to Ministry of Local Government, Kgalagadi South and Tutume Districts on
Mainstreaming HIVA/AIDS.
• Technical Advisor to Ministry of Local Government on Evidence based planning at the local level
including Monitoring and Evaluation.
• Technical Advisor to Ministry of Local Government on AIDS at the Work place programme.
World Health Organisation Botswana
HIV/AIDS National Programme Officer November 2000-February 2004
• Technical adviser on HIV/STI Surveillance to The National AIDS coordinating Agency
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2. • Technical adviser to Ministry of Health on Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response
• Technical advisor to Ministry of Health on Health Response to HIV.
• Chairperson UN Technical working group on HIV/AIDS.
• Technical advisor to all sectors on HIV/AIDS.
• Technical advisor to MOH on Non-communicable diseases
• Technical advisor to MOH on Essential Drugs.
• Acting Disease Prevention and Control Officer (DPC) and WR(in absence of WR)
Northwest Provincial Government. South Africa
Deputy Director Communicable Diseases: August 1997 to July 2000.
• Head of communicable-diseases section of the Provincial Department of Health
• Supervisor to the TB assistant director of the Province
• Supervisor of Assistant Director Expanded Programme on Immunisation of the Province
• Supervisor of Assistant director Health Promotion of the Province.
• Responsible for policy formulation and implementation at the provincial level.
• Responsible for planning, implementation , budgeting for Communicable Diseases in the Province.
• Responsible for the planning, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of STD/HIV/AIDS
programmes of the Province
Ministry of Health, Republic of Botswana.
Public Health Specialist: January 1989-June 1997.
• Head of the Regional Health Team.
• Curative patient care of the clinics and health posts.
• Planning, implementation, administration of Primary Health Care programmes.
• Head of the Prison Health Care services and other uniformed forces.
• Supervision of Clinical and Environmental Health Care services.
Union Carbide: Zimbabwe Melting and Smelting Company.
Community Health Specialist: May 1987-December 1988
• Deputy head Zimasco Health Care Division.
• Curative patient Care.
• Preventive and occupational health care.
• Management of Occupational injuries.
Ministry of Health: Zimbabwe.
Hospital Medical Officer: May 1986- April 1987.
• In patient and out-patient clinical work in Paediatrics, surgery, internal medicine, orthopaedics
gynaecology and Obstetrics.
Hospital Zum Heiligen Geist: Franfurt West Germany.
Hospital Medical Officer: September 1983-July 1984.
• Inpatient and outpatient clinical work in the Department of internal medicine.
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3. Educational Back ground:
20134: Certificate Course on Disaster Risk Reduction: World Bank E-courses,.
1986 M.Sc.CommunityMedicine.
University of Dublin Republic of Ireland..
1983 Doctor of Medicine (MD Cum Laude)
Phillips University. Marburg/Lahn. Federal Republic of Germany.
1982 Aerztliche Pruefung (MB. CH.B)
Phillip’s University, Marburg/Lahn. Federal Republic of Germany.
OTHER COURSES/CERTIFICATES.
1984: Tropical Medicine
1984: Primary Health Care in the Tropics.
1985: Laboratory diagnostics.
1990: Local Authority Services Management Course.
1992: STD Syndromic management course.
1994: Qualitative Research Methodology Course.
1997: Sexually Transmitted Diseases Course.
1998: A Focus on AIDS.
1998: Planning for HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.
1998: Integrated Marketing Communication for Health and Social Development.
1999: Nutritional Support for People Living with HIV.
1999: Enhancing HIV/AIDS Advocacy skills for the National Civil Military Alliance.
1999: Traditional Healers Role in Prevention of HIV/AIDS in East and Southern Africa.
2000: Computer skills.
2001: Health Sector Response to HIV/AIDS.
Languages:
ENGLISH. GERMAN. SHONA. NDEBELE. TSWANA (French. Beginners course)
Computer Skills:
Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, Excel and PowerPoint. Learning EPI Info.
Consultancy and other special assignments.
2010 Support for the Private Sector against AIDS in Africa with GIZ
2007. Training of Trainers on Mainstreaming for 3 Regions of Ethiopia (UNDP)
2007. District Response to HIV in Botswana (JICA)
2006: Evaluation of Belgian HBC Project in Tanzania.
2001: Assessment of IPT Pilot Programme in Botswana: WHO/CDC
2000 Monitoring and Evaluation Training in HIV/AIDS for Provincial Officers
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4. in South Africa: Futures Group
1998-1999: Doing TV and Radio Programmes for BOP TV and BOP Radio on STD/HIV/AIDS.
Wrote, Presented and was Executive Producer for the series
1996: Initiated Bobirwa Community Home-based care group which has
become a model in Botswana
1995: Development of a Quality assessment tool for Essential Health Services in Botswana.
UNICEF Botswana.
1992: National facilitator, STD syndromic management approach.
1990: Initiated a Community Home Based Rehabilitation Programme in
Kalahari Region, Botswana
1988: Initiated a Sex-Workers Project at Shurugwi Mine. Zimbabwe.
ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP.
1. Southern African Society of Sexually Transmitted Diseases.
2. Medical Anthropological Society of Germany. Heidelberg Chapter.
3. WONCA.
4. Botswana society of Males against AIDS.
5. Society of Women against AIDS. Botswana Chapter.
6. Medical and Dental Association of Botswana
7. Medical and Dental Association of Zimbabwe
8. International AIDS Society.
Publications and Papers Presented at various Fora:
1: MD Dissertation. Medical Anthropology of the Mashona of Zimbabwe.
Transculutural Comparisons of Gynaecology and Obstetrics. Phillips
University, Marburgh/Lahn. Federal Republic of Germany. Cum Laude 1983.
2: M.Sc. Dissertation. Changes in the Health system in Zimbabwe.
College Dublin . Republic of Ireland. 1986.
3: Attitudes of males towards contraception. East African Medical Journal.
70:2 (82-84) 1993.
4: Prevention of sexually transmitted diseases: The Shurugwi Sex-workers Project.
. South African Medical Journal. 83:1 (40-41) 1993.
5: Attitudes of women of Childbearing age
towards Traditional Birth Attendants. South African Medical Journal 84:1 (31-33) 1994.
6: Abdominal Deliveries in AFRICA: Food for though for scholars
of the History Medicine. Central African Medical Journal 53:2 (333-336) 1989.
7: Culture, Health and Treatment: Zimbabwe News 17:6 (50-53) 1986.
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5. 8: The role of Hand washing in Diarrhoeal Disease Transmission. Dialogue
Diarrhoea No. 48 1992.
9: Primary Health Care: Two case studies. South African Medical Journal.
84:12 (860-862) 1994.
10: Anthropology of burns in Zimbabwe. Journal of the Medical and Dental
Association of Botswana. 24:1 (1-4) 1994.
11: The effectiveness of Posters as a health Education Media. National Medical
Journal of India 8:3 (145-147) 1995.
12: Traditional Healers. A power to reckon with in Primary Health Care.
CURARE. 16:3 193-194) 1994.
13: The History and Function of the Male Condom. Bobirwa Info Exchange
Bulletin.1:1 (9-11) 1994.
14: The role of people living with HIV in IEC amongst their peers. A Bobirwa
example. Botswana AIDS quarterly June 1995. (3-6).
15: Community Self-Diagnosis. The case at Sefophe. Botswana AIDS Quarterly
September 1995 (10-12).
16: The role of the female condom in Sexual Empowerment of women.
Bobirwa Info Exchange Bulletin 1" (5-7) 1994.
17: Knowledge, Attitudes and Use of the Intrauterine contraceptives
devices among women utilising Family Planning methods in Kgalagadi district.
. Journal of the Medical and Dental Association of Botswana. 25:1 (25-31) 1996.
18: KAP study on STD, HIV and AIDS among commercial sex workers. The Francistown
Experience. Journal of the Medical and Dental Association of Botswana. 25:1 (22-24) 1996
19: The role of truck drivers in AIDS and STD prevention. The Francistown
Experience. Journal of the Medical and Dental Association of Botswana.
25:1 (32-37) 1996.
20: Possible alternative strategies to Change High Risk behaviour in Commercial Sex-
workers. Abstract to a paper presented at the 6th International Conference on
Women's Health Issues (21-22 ) Gaborone. Botswana
21: Integration of Psychiatric Services in Primary Health Care. Abstract to a paper
presented at a Mental Health Workshop for Senior Health Managers (13-14)
Lobatse, Botswana 1993.
22: Commercial sex-work: An African scourge or economic
necessity? The Journal of the Medical and Dental Association
of Botswana. 26.1(27-29) 1996
23: Community Costs in TB/HIV Co-infection. A case study. Abstracts to a paper
presented at the Southern African TB/HIV Co-infection Conference. (5-6)
. Gaborone, Botswana. November 1994.
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6. 24: Weaning practices in the Kalahari Region of Botswana. In “From Food security to
Nutrition Security”. Mugabe.M (Ed)National Institute of Development Research, University
of Botswana/Centre for Development and Environment, University of Oslo. A collaborative
Research Programme on Health, Population and Development. 1996
25: Teenage pregnancies in Botswana a retrospective study of Kalahari District
from 1985-1990. Ministry of Health Botswana. 1991
26: A KABP study on Traditional Healers on HIV/AIDS.
pub c.1136. Abstracts from the XI International Conference on HIV/AIDS .
Vancouver. Canada 7-12 July 1996.
27: African Marriages and Empowerment of Women. Their role in HIV/AIDS)
Paper presented at the 6th
International Conference of the Society of Women
Against AIDS in Africa Gaborone. Botswana 15-19 December 1996.
28: The Effects of HIV/AIDS on women (Inheritance, Wills, Benefits) Paper presented at the
6th
International Conference of the Society of Women Against AIDS in Africa. 15-19
15-19 December 1996. Gaborone. Botswana
29: The Effects of HIV/AIDS on Women and the Subsistence Economy Paper
presented at the 19th Southern African Universities Social Science Conference. Mmabatho,
N.W Province South Africa. 1-7 December 1996.
30: Community Costs of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Two case studies Paper presented at the 19th Southern African Universities Social Science
Conference. Mmabatho (South Africa). 1-7 December 1996.
31: A Quick Brief on Primary Health Care for Health Workers/Professionals in
Botswana. A booklet for newly employed health workers. Ministry of Health.
Gaborone Botswana. 1996
32: Safe-motherhood Protocols for Clinics. Joint UNICEF/Ministry of Health
Botswana. 1996
33: Safe- motherhood protocols for Health Posts. Joint UNICEF/ Ministry of Health
Gaborone. Botswana. 1996.
34: The role of Traditional Healers and migratory patterns in Multi-drug resistance
tuberculosis development in Southern Africa. Paper presented at the National
Conference on Control of Multi-Drug Resistance Tuberculosis and Staff
protection. 19-21 March 1997. Grand Palm Hotel Gaborone. Botswana.
35: STD/HIV/AIDS Knowledge, beliefs and practices of
traditional healers in Botswana. AIDS CARE 9.4:417-425. 1997.
36: HIV/AIDS, Households, and the Informal Economy in Africa: An endnote from the field: in,
AIDS and Development in Africa. A Social Science Perspective. Kempe R. Hope (Ed).
Haworth Press 1999.
37: Planning for HIV/AIDS at the District Level, A resource Brief for District Coordinators.
Department of Health, Mmabatho, South Africa. 1999
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7. 38: HIV/AIDS and the Religious sector. A booklet for religious leaders on how to run Prevention,
Care and Support programmes in HIV/AIDS. Sept 1999.
39: Wrote and Produced a 20-minute video on Community costs on HIV/AIDS. May 2000
40: Co-author of the Botswana 2000 Sentinel surveillance Report.
41: Co-editor. The University of Botswana: Aids Education Brochure 2001.
42: HIV/AIDS a brewing storm for Sub-Saharan Africa, Botswana WHO: Biannual Newsletter
Vol. No.1 January 2001
43. HIV a terrible combination”. Botswana WHO: Biannual Newsletter Vol. No.1 January 2001
44: Comparison of Pre-colonial and Post Colonial Orphan Coping Mechanisms: pp1-6: In
AIDS-Orphans White paper Role of the General Public. Edited by Silvia Jarchow. 2002.
44. The 12th
International Congress on HIV/AID accepted two presentations for 30 June and 2nd
July
(Poster Presentations). Titles: “The use of inappropriate language and its impact on HIV
Information, education and communication (IEC)” and “The Role of street barbers in the
spread of HIV/AIDS.”
45 Compilation of the HIV/STI Sentinel Surveillance Report on Botswana 2001
46 HIV Prevalence among Pregnant Women attending Ante-natal Clinic in Botswana 2001 .
Poster Presentation at the Barcelona International AIDS Conference July 2002
47 Achievements of Botswana in HIV/AIDS since the Southern African
Development Community Frame work of 1999. Paper Presented at the
Conference” Rethinking Strategies and Approaches to HIV/AIDS Response in
the Southern Africa Development Community Region. 17-20th
June 2002.
Royal Swazi Sun Hotel, Swaziland.
48 HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the Southern African Development Community
(SADC) Region : Recent Trends, Major Challenges and Future Direction.
Conference on “ Rethinking Strategies and Approaches to HIV/AIDS
Response in the Southern Africa Development Community Region”.17-20th
June 2002, Royal Swazi Sun Hotel, Swaziland.
49: The Red Ribbon. What does it Stand for?
WHO Biannual Newsletter Volume: 3 No.1 2002.
50: Management of AIDS Disease: Antiretroviral Therapy.
WHO Biannual Newsletter Volume: 3 No.1 2002.
51: What you need to Know about HIV/AIDS: WHO Biannual Newsletter
Volume: 3 No.1 2002.
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8. 52: Co-editor: AIDucation Brochure for Secondary schools in Botswana. 2004.
53: Frequency of Drug-Resistant Mutations among HIV-1C infected. Treatment
naïve patients in Botswana. Paper presented at the First NAHSORC
Conference in Botswana: Abstract Book NBT 14-2. page 4
54: CD4/CD8 Cell Counts among HIV negative reproductive-aged Adults in
Botswana. Paper presented at the First NAHSORC Conference in Botswana:
Abstract Book: WBT13-2 page 62.
55: The Symbolism of the Red Ribbon: The New Vision. 1st
Quarter 2004: page
24.
56: AIDS Competent Communities: A prerequisite for the Success of the Fight
against HIV/AIDS in Africa. New Vision. December 2004 pages 8-9.
57: The Role of Companies/Sector in the Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS.
New Vision. December 2004. pages 10-13
58: Mobilising Response of Faith Based Organisation to the Challenge of
HIV/AIDS and Violence in Botswana. Paper presented to the Botswana
Christian Council Workshop at the University of Botswana. 15th
July 2004.
59: Focus on Africa: The Burden of Health Care in Developing Countries:
Challenges and Constraints versus Strategies and Solutions. Paper presented at
the Botswana Medical Association’s 35th
Annual Congress 2004. October 22-
24.Botsalo Hotel, Palapye, Botswana. Management of non-infectious
Diseases.
60: Collateral Damage and Side-effects of HIV and AIDS. Paper presented at
the 21st
Southern African Universities Social Sciences Conference.
Gaborone 4-7 December 2005.
61: Participatory Training Manual for Tertiary and Senior Secondary Levels
in Botswana. University of Botswana. 2005
62: Participatory Planning. A Manual for District Planners in HIV and
AIDS.
63: Participatory Mainstreaming. A Manual for Sectors Mainstreaming HIV
and AIDS.
64 Wellness Guidelines for the Transport Sector in SADC. Paper Presented
at ICASSA 2011
65. The benefit of climate variability and change information to Health:
Paper presented to the last CDII Climate Conference. Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia. 19-20th
October 2012
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9. Referees:
• Mr Benjamin Ofosu-Koranteng
Senior Policy Advisor UNDP
Africa Office
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
E-mail: benjamin.Ofosu-Koranteng@undp.org
• Dr. Alphonse Mulumba
SADC
P/Bag 0095
Gaborone, Botswana
E-mail: imuvandi@sadc.int
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10. Referees:
• Mr Benjamin Ofosu-Koranteng
Senior Policy Advisor UNDP
Africa Office
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
E-mail: benjamin.Ofosu-Koranteng@undp.org
• Dr. Alphonse Mulumba
SADC
P/Bag 0095
Gaborone, Botswana
E-mail: imuvandi@sadc.int
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