South African AIDS Activism and Global Health Politics [Paperback]

South Africa has the world's largest number of people living with HIV. This book offers a history of AIDS activism in South Africa from its origins in gay and anti-apartheid activism to the formation and consolidation of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), including its central role in the global HIV treatment access movement.Introduction: South African AIDS Activism & Global Health Justice PART I: AIDS ACTIVISM & SOUTH AFRICA'S TRANSITION 1. Health for all? Healthworker AIDS Activism 1982 - 94 2. From Pride to Political Funeral: Gay AIDS Activism 1990 - 4 3. Women, Science and Sexism in AIDS Activism in the 1990s PART II: THE TAC & GLOBAL HEALTH POLITICS 4. Science and Sexuality in the Formation of the TAC, 1994 - 2001 5. 'pharma' v. Mandela: South African Moral Capital in a Global Movement 6. Radical legitimacy: Rights & Reasonableness in the TAC, 2001  - 3 7. 'The Durban Effect': The TAC's Impact on Global Health Diplomacy & Governance Conclusion: Recession & Reinventions

The book is particularly good at demonstrating the ways in which the historical context affected the development of AIDS activism, and how the transition to democracy both opened up new opportunities and brought new difficulties . . . As Mbali's book rightly reminds us, the struggle for global health justice is founded on the work of grassroots campaigners. Activists really can make a difference. - International Affairs

Mandisa Mbali is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. She is a Rhodes scholar and obtained her doctorate in Modern History at the University of Oxford, UK. Mbali completed postdoctoral training at Yale University, USA and has published a journal article and book chapters on postapartheid AIDS activism and policy-making.