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Witness to AIDS
Witness to AIDS
Witness to AIDS
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The moving and powerful story that stunned South Africa: Edwin Cameron - the first public office holder to disclose he was living with AIDS - writes about his decision, his experience and the struggle that millions face in seeking treatment.

Part memoir, part thought-provoking analysis, this book is a vivid exploration of what HIV/AIDS means - for Edwin Cameron as he faces the possibility of lingering death, for all of us in facing one of the foremost challenges of our time.

He explains his decision to go public and to accept anti-retroviral treatment, in a country beset by "denialism". He takes a critical look at what is so different about African AIDS; at the divergent reactions of Mandela and Mbeki to the crisis; the role of international pharmaceutical companies; the intricacies of "race, sex, death and Africa"; and the impact of South Africa’s largest activist group, the Treatment Action Campaign.

Along the way we come to know a number of remarkable people, among others Gugu Dlamini, killed for owning up to HIV infection; Simon Nkuli, brave activist; the unnamed gardener who "died of shame"; and Zackie Achmat, trusted friend and wily strategist.

Cameron integrates the intensely personal with scientific research and a considered examination of the politics and cultural forces at play, particularly in Africa, in a touching human story which ultimately speaks of hope and possibility.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherTafelberg
Release dateApr 24, 2013
ISBN9780624063797
Witness to AIDS
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Edwin Cameron

Edwin Cameron has been a Justice of South Africa's highest court, the Constitutional Court, since 1 January 2009. Cameron was educated at Pretoria Boys' High School, Stellenbosch and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and won the top academic awards and prizes. During apartheid he was a human rights lawyer. President Mandela appointed him a judge in 1994. Before serving in the Constitutional Court, he was a Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal for eight years, and a Judge of the High Court for six. Cameron was an outspoken critic of then President Thabo Mbeki's AIDS-denialist policies, and in 2005 wrote a prize-winning memoir, Witness to AIDS, about his own experience of living with AIDS. Published in South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States and in translation in Germany and China, Witness to AIDS was co-winner of the prestigious Sunday Times Alan Paton award. Cameron chaired the governing council of the University of the Witwatersrand for more than ten years (1998-2008), and remains involved in charitable and public causes. He has received numerous honours for his legal and human rights work, including a special award by the Bar of England and Wales in 2002 for his 'contribution to international jurisprudence and the protection of human rights'. He is an honorary fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, London, and of Keble College, Oxford (2003), as well as an honorary bencher of the Middle Temple, London (2008). He holds honorary doctorates in law from King's College London (2008), the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (2009), Oxford University (2011) and the University of St Andrews (2012).

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