Yvette Raphael is currently the Executive Director of Advocates
for the Prevention of HIV in Africa. Serves on the Board of Trustees of
MTV Base Staying Alive. Yvette Alta Raphael is a consummate
leader in the fight against HIV. As a woman who has been living with
the virus for over 19 years, she has experienced first-hand what HIV
stigma, insufficient prevention education, and reduced access to
healthcare can do. She utilized her natural leadership abilities to co-
found the Tshwaranang Care Center for People Living with HIV & AIDS (PLWHA). Ms. Raphael has spoken around the globe including several International AIDS Conferences to advise researchers, advocates, and policy makers on how to best win the war against HIV and AIDS. 

Her passion has been to improve the health outcomes for young women and girls, but her trusted expertise has also been lent to developing policies at the work place and to create better, more efficient structures to utilize the available governmental resources to End AIDS. Furthermore, Ms. Raphael is a trusted globally renowned advocate on effective and efficient education to the community regarding new and developing research for medications that treat and/or prevent HIV. Yvette is featured in the 2018/2019 exhibition at Smithsonian Museum titled out breaks (those who survive, those left behind). She is Also a member of the Global Community Advisory Group for the ECHO trial.