South African AIDS Activism and Global Health Politics [electronic resource] /
Mbali, M.author.
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.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; A Note on Racial Terms; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Introduction: South African AIDS Activism and Global Health Justice; Part I: AIDS Activism and South Africa's Transition; 1 Health for All? Healthworker AIDS Activism, 1982-1994; 2 From Pride to Political Funeral: Gay AIDS Activism, 1990-1994; 3 Women, Science and Sexism in AIDS Activism in the 1990s; Part II: The TAC and 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, 1998-20016 Radical Legitimacy: Rights and 'Reasonableness' in the TAC, 2001-2003; 7 'The Durban Effect': The TAC's Impact on Global Health Diplomacy and Governance, 2001-2003; Postscript: Recession and Reinventions; Notes; Bibliography; Timeline; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Treatment Action Campaign.
Treatment Action Campaign.
Economic development.
Social medicine.
Ethnology-Africa.
Sociology.
Social policy.
Anthropology.
Development Studies.
Medical Sociology.
African Culture.
Sociology, general.
Social Policy.
Anthropology.