Global Advisory Panel

Alexander McClelland is Associate Professor at the Carleton University Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He is the author of Criminalized Lives: HIV and Legal Violence. Alexander is a founding member of the Canadian Coalition to Reform HIV Criminalization.

Alexander joined the GAP in January 2020.

Amelia Vukeya Motsepe is a public health and human rights lawyer, with an LLB degree from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (2002) and a LLM in International Legal Studies at Georgetown University Law Center, Washington D.C (2007). Her training in the field of human rights and social justice started in 2003 at the Constitutional Court of South Africa, where she focused on human rights, constitutional law, litigation, and research. She previously interned at the American Bar Association with a focus on HIV, and subsequently joined Section 27 (incorporating the AIDS Law Project) as a project attorney and researcher working on issues at the intersection of HIV, law, and human rights. In 2010, Amelia joined the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa as an assistant programme manager for law, human rights, and HIV, and as a co-ordinator of the law and health initiative. Amelia’s previous corporate law experience as an attorney at both Norton Rose Fulbright and Bowman’s broadened her understanding of the intersections of law, business and human rights. She is a published author, contributing to HIV and the Law in South Africa: A practitioner guide (2016) and Reducing Human Rights Related Barriers to HIV & TB Services for Key and Vulnerable Populations: A Legal Support Resource (2021). She also serves as a trustee for the South African National AIDS Council and is chair of the Governance, Social and Ethics Committee.

Amelia joined the GAP in October 2022.

Ann Fordham is the Executive Director of the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC).  She leads on international advocacy efforts on drug policy and human rights, calling for reform of laws and policies that failed to reduce the scale of the drug market and have negatively impacted people who use drugs and growers of illicit crops. Ann previously chaired the Strategic Advisory Group to the UN on drug use and HIV, and is regularly invited to comment on global drug policy issues in the media.

Ann joined the GAP in January 2020.

Anukriti Singh is a communications strategist and feminist movement-builder based in New Delhi, India, with over six years of experience in global health advocacy and human rights. She currently serves as Movement Strengthening and Networking Officer at the Women’s Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR), where she supports transnational feminist organising and advances advocacy on bodily autonomy and health justice. Previously she has been involved with regional level Global Fund advocacy. Anukriti also has worked within the Government of India, contributing to national-level programmes and gaining hands-on experience navigating state systems and policy processes. Her work spans HIV advocacy, SRHR, sex workers’ rights, decriminalisation, disability justice, and gender-based violence.

Anukriti joined the GAP in October 2022.

David Haerry has been a treatment writer and conference reporter since 1996 and previously co-authored www.hivtravel.org, the global database on travel and residency restrictions affecting people living with HIV.

Since 2015, he has served as Secretary General of the SAFE-ID Foundation. He has been closely involved with European and Swiss regulatory bodies and has played key roles in EUPATI IMI and PFMD. A consultant on patient-centred clinical research and medicine across Europe, David is the founder of Positive Council Switzerland and a member of the Zurich Ethics Committee. He has co-authored numerous publications in infectious diseases, doctor–patient communication, research ethics, and pharmacovigilance. He has been living with HIV since 1986.

David joined the Global Advisory Panel in January 2020.

Federico Emanuel Villalba is a law and sociology student from Argentina and a community-led HIV advocate with over seven years of experience in youth mobilisation, stigma reduction, and HIV justice. Between 2017 and 2024, he was actively involved with the Argentine Network of Positive Youth and Adolescents (RAJAP), serving as National Co-Coordinator and leading the implementation of the People Living with HIV Stigma Index 2.0 in Argentina—the first time the study was conducted by a youth-led organization in the country. Following this role, Federico expanded his work into broader national and global platforms. He has provided technical assistance to the Global Alliance Against All Forms of HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination (Argentina chapter), contributes to the legal area of RAP+30, and is a member of the GNP+ Stigma Index Community Experts group. He also participates in the Gilead Prevention Community Advisory Board (CAB), contributing community perspectives to prevention strategies and policy dialogue. His work focuses on strengthening rights-based approaches, community-led research, and accountability mechanisms that connect lived experience, legal frameworks, and global health governance.

Federico joined the GAP in October 2022.

Jeffry Acaba is an openly gay migrant living with HIV, bringing in 20 years of both technical expertise and lived experience in his work: grounding policy advocacy and programme design in community realities. His expertise spans health policy advocacy and accountability, programme management and coordination (including monitoring, evaluation, and learning), training and capacity strengthening, and operational research and documentation. He is currently Programme Manager at APCASO where he supports civil society and key population-led organisations to strengthen advocacy for the meaningful inclusion and prioritisation of community, rights, and gender-responsive programming into national and regional HIV, TB, and pandemic preparedness, prevention and response (PPPR) strategies.

Jeffry joined the GAP in January 2020.

Justin Chidozie is the Executive Director of the Center for Health Education and Vulnerable Support (CHEVS), an LGBTQI youth-led organisation working within west Africa. Justin is also a member of the activist advisory committee for the Love Alliance initiative. With more than five years’ experience of working in community development, he is skilled in key population programming, advocacy and brand/communication strategy. He is passionate about meaningful youth engagement and human rights in HIV programming. Justin has a Bachelors degree in Mass Communication from Imo State University, Nigeria.

Justin joined the GAP in October 2022.

Michaela Clayton is a human rights lawyer who has worked on HIV and human rights issues in Namibia, and subsequently regionally and internationally since 1989. She is the founding Director of the AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA), a regional partnership of civil society organisations working together to promote a human rights based response to HIV and TB in 18 countries in southern and east Africa.  Michaela was a long-standing member of the UNAIDS Human Rights Reference Group of which she was also the co-chair from 2011 until February 2021. 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. Michaela holds a BA LLB (1985) from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Michaela joined the GAP in January 2020, served on the Supervisory Board during 2021, and rejoined the GAP in January 2022.

Robert Suttle is a U.S.-based advocate and strategist working at the intersection of public health, human rights, and law. As a long-term survivor of HIV with more than a decade of experience in decriminalization and policy reform, he brings both lived expertise and systems-level insight to global efforts advancing HIV justice. His work focuses on aligning science, governance, and institutional accountability to reduce stigma, misinformation, and legal harm. Robert serves as Chair of The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation Council of Justice Leaders and is a co-founder of The Sero Project. Within the GAP, he contributes U.S. perspectives to global strategy and supports evidence-based, rights-affirming approaches to HIV policy reform.

Robert joined the GAP in January 2020.

Rose Wanjiku is a journalist, editor, climate communicator, and human rights advocate with extensive experience across Africa supporting sex worker, feminist, and LGBTQ+ movements. She has worked with the African Sex Workers Alliance (ASWA) as a Policy and Advocacy Officer, co-authoring policy briefs on labour rights and the decriminalisation of sex work. She has served on the board of the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya and as a member of the Coalition of African Lesbians, and is co-founder of Artists for Recognition and Acceptance in Kenya(AFRA-Kenya). Rose specialises in strategic communication, advocacy, and campaign design, alongside climate communication and strengthening grassroots advocacy for key populations.

Rose joined the GAP in October 2022.

Shawn Mugisha is a founding member and the Director of Advocacy and Community Liaison at Ubuntu Law and Justice Centre, an African queer feminist organisation that offers intersectional approaches that provide transformative responses to the intersectional criminalisation of key populations in Uganda. An HIV, LGBTQ+, and human rights activist with a decade of direct experience in advocacy, community mobilisation, and development, Shawn is a farmer, a grassroots frontline activist, a volunteer, a peer educator, a community paralegal, and a human rights facilitator. He serves as a member of the East African Trans Health and Advocacy Network (EATHAN), as well as on the International Working Group on Trans Men and HIV.

Shawn joined the GAP in October 2022.

Zione Jane Veronica Ntaba is a Judge of the Malawi High Court with a passion for constitutional law, human rights law – especially as it relates to HIV/AIDS, gender, children, and disability, as well as urban and development law. She is an active member of the Women Judges Association of Malawi, focused on bringing the courts closer to the people and on the legal empowerment of Malawians – especially women, children, and marginalised people. She is also a keen facilitator and trainer on human rights. She is passionate about development, with an emphasis on women’s and children’s rights. She is also a member of several local, regional, and international organisations, including the African Judges Forum on HIV, AIDS, TB and Human Rights, and sits on a number of other boards, including the Disability HIV and AIDS Trust, and is also a former World Vision Malawi Ambassador on Ending Child Marriages in Malawi.

Zione joined the GAP in October 2022.