Allan Maleche

Allan Maleche is the Executive Director of Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV and AIDS (KELIN). Allan is a dynamic leader, an advocate of the high court of Kenya and a human rights defender with over fifteen years of experience in law, ethics, governance, policy, health and rights, including eight years managing rights-based programmes that protect affected, marginalised and vulnerable populations. He co-chairs the UNAIDS Human Rights Reference group and is a member of the International Advisory Board for the Global Health Centre. Allan also serves as a member of the International AIDS Society–Lancet Commission on Health and Human Rights. A former Board Member of the Developing Country NGO Delegation to the Global Fund Board, where he also served as an Alternate Board Member and member of the Global Fund’s Audit and Finance Committee. In Kenya, Allan has used the legal framework to safeguard the rights of people and communities affected by HIV and TB through litigating landmark cases, including Daniel Ng’etich and Others v The Honourable Attorney General and Others, which successfully argued against incarceration of persons with Tuberculosis as a public health measure. KELIN undertook the first ever TB legal environmental assessment in January 2018 under the leadership of Allan.