Biography

Dr Animesh Sinha is a HIV/TB/Hepatitis Advisor for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). He has worked in South Sudan, Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan and in the TB-PRACTECAL clinical trial. His research interest includes TB elimination and evolving drug resistance. He is the Research Lead at UK Academics and Professionals to end TB. He is part of BETTER Project (Building Experience to Treat TB with Expanded Resistance) sharing clinical experiences in providing care for people with strains of TB that have resistance to new TB drugs. He is currently involved in the global roll-out of 6-month MDR-TB treatment regimens.