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Ntando Yola is the Stakeholder and Community Engagement Lead at the University of Cape Town Clinical Trials Unit and the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation in Cape Town. His vast experience of HIV, TB, and related clinical research demonstrated his dedication to mobilising and facilitating an enabling environment for diverse stakeholders to have a meaningful role in health research and development. He cofounded Advocates for Prevention of HIV in Africa (APHA) with a mission to strengthen community-driven, collaborative empowerment and advocacy initiatives that directly respond to the needs of communities in health research, development, and lasting impact.
He is a national leader at the South African National AIDS Council – Civil Society Forum within the Research Sector. Ntando has served in various national, regional, and international platforms as part of the collaborative collective in health research and development. Serves as the chair of the HIV Prevention Trials Network – Community Working Group. He has contributed to published literature on HIV and general health research, stakeholder engagement, and advocacy.
The Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, under the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zululand, invites you to submit your abstracts for the 4th International Anthropology and Development Studies Conference in 2025. For all (existing) colonial structures, there have constantly been anti- and decolonial counterforces. However, coloniality has always found a way to reconfigure itself, shifting from rigid violence to more symbolic violence expressed through Human Rights in developing countries. With its legacies of colonial structures, coloniality strengthens its matrix of power through the imposition of Western human rights frameworks on African societies which has led to tensions between local and global governance mechanisms.
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