Mark Heywood has been one of the leaders of the Treatment Action Campaign since it started on 10 December 1998. He has also directed the AIDS Law Project since 1997 and its successor, SECTION27.
Heywood, partly inspired by his love for punk rock and reggae, especially Bob Marley, has fought for human rights since he was a teenager. Born into a British expat family in Nigeria, he lived in the UK, Ghana and Botswana as a child. In the 1980s he was actively involved in the Marxist Workers Tendency of the ANC.
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