Mark Heywood plays a pivotal role in South African public life and the movement for social justice. He has spearheaded momentous victories for poor people, establishing the right to antiretroviral treatment and to textbooks in schools among others. Executive Director of SECTION27 and a key figure in #Save South Africa, #Unite Against Corruption and the Treatment Action Campaign, Heywood has inside experience of tough campaigns and what it takes to mobilise thousands to create change. This book provides frank insights into how power and politics work as it calls on each of us to play our part. Urgent and inspirational, it is also a personal story about love, loss and safeguarding your soul. It is a book of justice and hope.
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Mark Heywood has been the Executive Director of the public interest law centre SECTION27 since 2010. Before that, he headed the AIDS Law Project (ALP) for thirteen years. Heywood also serves on the executive of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), an organisation he co-founded in 1999. Among several other organisations he helped create, the #Save South Africa campaign, started in 2016, #Unite Against Corruption, started in 2015, and Corruption Watch (2012) are among the most prominent. Heywood chaired the UNAIDS Global Reference Group on HIV and Human Rights from 2006 to 2012, and served as deputy chair of the South African National AIDS Council from 2007 to 2012. He has been involved extensively in successful human rights litigation and is the author of more than 300 op-eds, essays, peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on legal, ethical and rights questions linked to HIV/AIDS, health, politics, law and literature. A veteran of more than 150 marathons, he has run over 30 ultra-marathons and completed the iconic Comrades Marathon 17 times. He lives in Johannesburg.
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