VENUE: DEMOCRACY
Dialogue | Date: 28 March 2026 | Time: 15h00 | Presented by: SECTION27
Nationality vs. Necessity: Who Gets Treated?
Health xenophobia and the right to healthcare
SECTION27 aims to achieve systemic change and accountability to ensure the dignity and equality of everyone.
Khuselwa Dyantji
Khuselwa Dyantji is a health rights attorney at SECTION27 with more than a decade of experience in public interest law, specialising in socio-economic rights and constitutional litigation. She works across litigation, advocacy, and policy reform to advance access to healthcare, gender equality, sexual and reproductive health rights, and the rights of marginalised communities.
Sharon Ekambaram
Sharon Ekambaram is the Programme Manager at Lawyers for Human Rights and a founding member of Kopanang Africa Against Xenophobia. A long-standing activist, she has worked across refugee and migrant rights, public health, advocacy, and social justice, including senior roles at Médecins Sans Frontières and the Treatment Action Campaign.
Claire Waterhouse
Claire Waterhouse is the Director of the ERAA Department for MSF Southern Africa and MSF Ubuntu. Since joining MSF in 2014, she has worked across projects in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, and previously worked with the MSF Access Campaign. She holds a Master’s in Human Rights Law from SOAS, University of London.
Anele Yawa
Anele Yawa is the General Secretary of the Treatment Action Campaign and a long-standing South African human rights activist. Since joining TAC in 2002, he has spent more than two decades advancing the rights of people living with HIV and now also serves as Chief Accounting Officer of the Ritshidze Project.
