Medical Director

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Dr. Marcelo Fernandez is the HAIVN Medical Director based in Hanoi. He joined the project in September, 2007. 

Dr. Fernandez received his medical degree at the University of Rosario in Argentina in 1993 and he did his Internal Medicine residency at Dr. Clement Alvarez Hospital in Rosario, Argentina, followed by HIV immunology studies in France. In 1998, he joined Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), and worked in Guatemala providing care for HIV-infected adults and children. 

In 2001, he began to work with MSF AIDS project in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as medical coordinator of the Cambodian programs treating adults and children. In 2003, he participated to develop the first ARVs drug users association of PLWHA throughout Cambodia. In 2006, he worked as a clinical coordinator on a TB/HIV clinical trial in this country.