Leon J. Levin MBBCh(Wits), FCPaed(SA), DTM&H

Dr Leon Levin MBBCh(Wits), FCPaed(SA), DTM&H is a paediatrician who has been treating HIV infected infants, children and adolescents for the past 22 years. For the past 10 years, he has been Head of Paediatric HIV Programmes at Right to Care NGO. He was the Chairman of the Paediatric Subcommittee of the SA HIV Clinicians Society from 1999-to 2011 and was the convenor of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society Paediatric Antiretroviral Guidelines 2000, 2002 and 2005 and Co-convenor for the 2009 guidelines.

He is on the SA DOH Paediatric and Adolescent ART Guidelines Committees and the Paediatric 3rd line ART Committee for the SA DOH. He founded and runs the South African HIV Clinicians Society Paediatric Discussion Group which is an Internet-based forum for clinicians to discuss and learn about problems in paediatric patients with HIV. He has given numerous lectures and HIV viral resistance workshops throughout Africa. His current areas of interest include infants, children and adolescents with HIV infection, treatment failure and drug resistance and HIV disclosure to adolescents.