Lovemore Mupfukura | Global Health Corps

Lovemore Mupfukura

Lovemore

Co-fellow

Rithi

Rithi Mathias

Placement Country: United States
Title: Health Counselor
"I would like to learn best practices that I will be able to implement in my own country for the betterment of my own people's health."

Lovemore is from Harare, Zimbabwe. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences in 2006. He worked as a research assistant for the Organization for Public Health, Epidemiology and Development in Zimbabwe for one year. He later joined the Zimbabwe AIDS Prevention Project-University of Zimbabwe where he worked as a program officer responsible for community outreach in a prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV program. Lovemore has extensive experience working with people living with HIV in resource-limited settings. Over the years he has also gained a lot of experience in health education, child rights programming, advocacy, project management, monitoring, and evaluation. He also cofounded a trust to help orphans and vulnerable children in Zimbabwe. Lovemore is an active member of the Child Protection Society of Zimbabwe. During his spare time he likes watching movies and playing soccer.