| Nduku Kilonzo | |
| Birth Place: | Kenya |
| Alma Mater: | Moi University, KenyaLiverpool School of Tropical Medicine |
| Years Active: | 2008 — present |
| Nationality: | Kenyan |
| Citizenship: | Kenya |
| Known For: | Public Health, Research |
| Director National Aids Control Council of Kenya | |
Nduku Kilonzo is the executive director of the National Aids Control Council (NACC) of Kenya.[1] [2]
During the 1990s, while working as a teacher in rural Kenya, she became aware of the gender disparities facing her female students. As time passed, Nduku focused on the relationship between gender-based violence and the spread of HIV. Later, she studied at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, graduating with a PhD in Tropical Medicine, Gender and Health.[3]
In 2012, she became manager of the Kenyan non-profit organization, LVCT, a Kenyan NGO focusing on reducing the transmission of HIV/AIDS. In May 2014, she was appointed to her present position of executive director of the National Aids Control Council (NACC) of Kenya.[2]
She is also an Advisor in Gender and Rights Advocacy Panel to the World Health Organization. She serves as an editor of Reproductive Health Matters, a peer review journal and is a member of the Public Health Association of Kenya.[2] She is a Commissioner with the Lancet Commission for Health in Sub-Saharan Africa.