Fatima Hassan is a senior attorney at the AIDS Law Project (ALP). She co-ordinates monitoring of the anti-retroviral treatment programme, and has coordinated key litigation against government, big business and pharmaceutical companies involving issues of non-discrimination and access to affordable and sustainable treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS. She convenes the Joint Civil Society Monitoring Forum (JCSMF), and is a board member of Medicins Sans Fronteires (MSF) and Open Democracy Advice Centre (ODAC). In earlier years Fatima was a student activist, and worked at the Constitutional Court of South Africa under Justice Kate O'Regan. She was awarded the Franklin Thomas Fellowship by the Constitutional Court to pursue an LLM at Duke University, which she completed in 2002. The Mail & Guardian selected her as one South Africa's top 100 movers and shakers, as one of South Africa's noteworthy women, and as one of the top 20 under 40 year olds to influence the country in the next decade.