South African AIDS Activism and Global Health Politics

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. What Did South African Aids Activists Contribute, Politically, To Early International Advocacy For Free Hiv Medicines For The World's Poor? Mandisa Mbali Demonstrates That South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign (tac) Gave Moral Legitimacy To The International Movement Which Enabled It To Effectively Push For New Models Of Global Health Diplomacy And Governance. The Tac Rapidly Acquired Moral Credibility, She Argues, Because Of Its Leaders' Anti-apartheid Political Backgrounds, Its Successful Human Rights-based Litigation And Its Effective Popularization Of Aids-related Science. The Country's Arresting Democratic Transition In 1994 Enabled South African Activists To Form Transnational Alliances. Its New Constitution Provided Novel Opportunities For Legal Activism, Such As The Tac's Advocacy Against Multinational Pharmaceutical Companies And The South African Government. Mbali's History Of The Tac Sheds Light On Its Evolution Into An Influential Force For Global Health Justice. 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 -- 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 And Global Health Politics -- 4. Science And Sexuality In The Formation Of The Tac, 1994 -- 2001 -- 5. 'pharma' Volume Mandela: South African Moral Capital In A Global Movement -- 6. Radical Legitimacy: Rights And Reasonableness In The Tac, 2001 -- 3 -- 7. 'the Durban Effect': The Tac's Impact On Global Health Diplomacy And Governance -- Conclusion: Recession And Reinventions. Mandisa Mbali. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Introduction: South African AIDS Activism and Global Health Justice....Pages 1-23 Front Matter....Pages 25-25 Health for All? Healthworker AIDS Activism, 1982–1994....Pages 27-48 From Pride to Political Funeral: Gay AIDS Activism, 1990–1994....Pages 49-76 Women, Science and Sexism in AIDS Activism in the 1990s....Pages 77-103 Front Matter....Pages 105-105 Science and Sexuality in the Formation of the TAC, 1994–2001....Pages 107-135 ‘Pharma’ v Mandela: South African Moral Capital in a Global Movement, 1998–2001....Pages 136-166 Radical Legitimacy: Rights and ‘Reasonableness’ in the TAC, 2001–2003....Pages 167-199 ‘The Durban Effect’: The TAC’s Impact on Global Health Diplomacy and Governance, 2001–2003....Pages 200-226 Postscript: Recession and Reinventions....Pages 227-244 Back Matter....Pages 245-295