Title: Succeeding with programmes, failing with the law?
Michaela Clayton is a human rights lawyer and Director of the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA), a regional partnership of over 80 civil society organisations working together to promote a human rights based response to HIV and TB in 18 countries in Southern and East Africa.
She serves as co-chair of the UNAIDS Reference Group on Human Rights and co-chair of the Global Fund Human Rights Reference Group. She was the recipient of the 2009 Human Rights Watch and Canadian AIDS Legal Network International Award for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights.