Aids Healthcare Foundation (AHF) | Director of Global Advocacy & Policy | Based in Argentina
Guillermina Alaniz is a lawyer and has extensive experience in public service and the defense of human rights, public health, and women’s empowerment.
In 2017, she joined AHF Argentina as Advocacy Manager. She began working on public policies to improve the quality of life of people living with HIV (PLHIV), including providing legal advice and assistance, staff training, and exchanging initiatives with civil society partners working to eliminate stigma and discrimination. During Argentina’s G20 presidency, she actively participated in the C20 Global Health workgroup, advocating with the GAMPO team to keep HIV on the G20 agenda.
She started, jointly with Natalia Haag, the Girls Act Program in Argentina, continuing her activism in women’s rights and empowerment, finding in this program an excellent opportunity to advocate for girls’ and women’s human rights and a way to work directly with the most vulnerable ones.
Since 2019, she has worked in the Latin America and Caribbean Bureau team and coordinated the advocacy activities of the eleven countries that are part of the Bureau. Coordinated with the Bureaus´ teams our Vaccinate Our World (VOW) campaign activities. The Bureau achieved that the three leaders, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, expressed themselves in favor of equitable access to vaccines for middle-income and low-income countries.
In 2022, she joined AHF´s Global team as the Director of Global Advocacy & Policy. She participated in the International Advisory Committee during Indonesia´s C20 and was part of the Vaccine Access and Global Health Working Group. She continues to be part of the IAC in C20 Brazil and co-coordinated the Integrated Health for All working group.
Actively participated and coordinated advocacy strategies for the Global Funds 7th replenishment and the expansion of its mandate, the need for a new Global Public Health Convention, Pandemic Fund, Girls Act Program, TB, UHC, and PPPR HLM 2023, as well as others.
Before joining AHF, she occupied various elective positions in the public administration of her hometown, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina. She was also an advisor to a legislative bloc of the National Senators’ Chamber and a consultant to some National Senators.