作者: Mark Heywood

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.