Abstract
One Sunday morning last year an elderly Zambian woman four grandchildren in tow showed up at Elizabeth Matakas door. "Im looking for Mrs Mataka-people said she will help me. Shes the one who helps grandmothers" the woman said. She had found exactly the right person. Mataka herself a grandmother of three heads the Zambia National AIDS Network (ZNAN) and helps coordinate funds fl owing in from donors. And earlier this year she was elevated to the highest levels of the global response to the pandemic. In April 61-year-old Mataka was elected Vice Chair of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria. The next month she got a surprise midnight call from New York with the news that she had been chosen to replace the outgoing United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa Canadian diplomat Stephen Lewis. (excerpt)
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