Dr Clive Evian, a registered specialist in community health, was appointed by Right to Care in February 2009 as a consultant in a senior technical advisory role. He is consulting primarily on the quality-of-care assurance, in the implementation of antiretroviral care in government and NGO sites, training and training material development, epidemiological studies, contribution to report writing, and technical advice. Clive has obtained an MB BCh, MMed in Community Health, and Higher Diploma in Adult Education.
Clive has been working almost entirely with HIV since 1989. He was formerly Director of the Health Services Development Unit, part of the Department of Community Health of Wits Medical School. The department operated a primary health care programme that implemented health-service development, training of personnel, and the writing of training manuals.
In 1989 Clive joined the City of Johannesburg Health Department as a Deputy Director. He initiated and was head of the Departments HIV programme which included the establishment of the Esselyn Street Community AIDS Centre. He spent approximately 18 years as a part-time clinician at the Johannesburg Hospital HIV clinic.
Since 1997, Clive has run his own HIV consultancy, providing consulting and epidemiological services to a range of clients, including private, NGO, international and Public. He has a special interest in HIV epidemiology, workplace programmes, and primary HIV care.
He has written several books on HIV & AIDS, including Primary HIV/AIDS Care, now in its fourth edition, as well as a HIV education series for schools and a guide for managing HIV in the workplace.
Clive has published numerous papers on HIV epidemiology and other aspects of HIV in South Africa and has presented at many national and international conferences and conducted workshops on various aspects of HIV.
Outside of Right to Care he is also implementing the WILD4LIFE HIV programme for Wild Life projects, under the auspices of the wildlife Conservation Network and Wild Life Conservation Society in Africa.
In 2002, Clive was elected as an Associate of Public Health Medicine of South Africa, College of Medicine of South Africa.