Mbali South African AIDS Activism and Global Health Politics

2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-31216-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 295 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Global Ethics

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mbali, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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 post–apartheid AIDS activism and policy-making.