Yogan Pillay
Yogan Pillay is the head of HIV and TB delivery at the Gates Foundation, where he focuses on funding and supporting research initiatives to combat these diseases. He was in the news for his remarks regarding the detrimental impact of recent NIH grant cancellations on HIV prevention and treatment efforts, emphasizing the potential stall in innovation due to funding cuts.
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Yogan Pillay is the head of HIV and TB delivery at the Gates Foundation.
The six-monthly anti-HIV jab could be in 360 clinics by February. Who should get the first doses? – The Mail & Guardian
South Africa· 2025-10-20
Yogan Pillay heads up HIV and TB service delivery at the Gates Foundation.
SA plans anti-HIV jab roll-out at hundreds of clinics by April – The Mail & GuardianSouth Africa· 2025-09-01
Yogan Pillay, the health department’s former deputy director general for HIV, discussed the potential of AI-supported digital health solutions.
Most people on ARVs stay on them. Does our health system know that? – The Mail & GuardianSouth Africa· 2025-08-04
The deputy director general position for HIV and TB has been vacant for five years, empty since Yogan Pillay, who now works for the Gates Foundation, left the position in May 2020.
Are we entering denialism 2.0? – The Mail & GuardianSouth Africa· 2025-05-23
Yogan Pillay, the head of HIV and TB delivery at the Gates Foundation, warns that funding cuts will stall innovation in HIV prevention and treatment.
Trump ends SA’s HIV and TB research grants – The Mail & GuardianSouth Africa· 2025-03-24
