Marina Mahathir

Marina Mahathir is a writer, women’s rights and HIV/AIDS activist and TV producer. She served as the President of the Malaysian AIDS Council for 12 years from 1993-2005. In addition Marina has served on many regional and international HIV/AIDS bodies including the AIDS Society of Asia and the Pacific (ASAP), UNAIDS and the Asia Pacific Leadership Forum on HIV and Development (APLF).

Currently she is a member of the Board of Sisters in Islam.

Marina also writes a fortnightly column on social issues in a local English-language daily as well as online, produces a TV programme for young women and writes and speaks regularly on women’s issues particularly where it relates to Islam, gender and HIV/AIDS. She is also an avid blogger with her own blog, www.rantingsbymm.blogspot.com, a Twitterer (@netraKL) and Facebooker.