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Title: | The virus, vitamins and vegetables: the South African HIV/AIDS mystery |
Editors: | Cullinan, Kerry Thom, Anso |
Year: | 2009 |
Pages: | 211 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Johannesburg |
Publisher: | Jacana |
ISBN: | 1770096914; 9781770096912 |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | AIDS health policy medicinal drugs traditional medicine attitudes |
Abstract: | This collective volume documents some of the madness and despair of a decade of HIV/AIDS denialism under South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki and his Health Minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. Contributions: In the beginning there was Virodene, by James Myburgh; The President's panel, by Michael Cherry; Love, courage, insubordination and HIV/AIDS denialism, by Pregs Govender; Courting morality: the fight to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission, by Ashraf Coovadia; Daring to care: a doctor's persecution in Mpumalanga, by Thys von Mollendorff; Government's strange bedfellows, by Kerry Cullinan; The curious tale of the vitamin seller, by Anso Thom; Garlic, olive oil, lemons and beetroot, by Liz McGregor; Traditional alternatives? by Kanya Ndaki; Saints and sinners: the Treatment Action Campaign, by Janine Stephen; Deadly cells: the struggle of HIV positive prisoners, by Khopotso Bodibe; Speaking truth to power, by Claire Keeton; Remembering a decade of the Treatment Action Campaign, by Zackie Achmat. [ASC Leiden abstract] |