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Amelia Mfiki, HPTN 083 Community Working Group member, is the community liaison officer at the Groot Schuur HIV CRS in Cape Town, South Africa. With a background in social work, she has successfully established the LGBTI forum in the Western Cape. The forum aims to empower and educate LGBTQI+ populations to enhance their health and well-being. She is one of the founders of Ubomi Bethu, an organization seeking to inform communities about HIV-related issues through treatment literacy and facility demand creation.

Tarisai Murefu, a member of HPTN 084 and HPTN 084-01 study protocol teams, is the lead outreach worker with the University of Zimbabwe Clinical Trials Research Centre (UZ-CTRC) in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Dr. Lynda Stranix-Chibanda is co-chair of the HPTN 083-01/HPTN 084-01 sub-studies evaluating long-acting injectable cabotegravir in adolescent populations, a member of the HPTN Adolescent Working Group and research scientific director at the University of Zimbabwe Clinical Trials Research Centre in Harare, Zimbabwe. A pediatrician by training, Dr.