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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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'In a landmark case study of transnational AIDS activism, Mbali constructs a rigorous and analytically innovative framework to support a series of important and fascinating new insights into the inter-connections between history, politics and health. Her study provides a nuanced assessment - part sober, part cautiously optimistic - of the potential for social movements to advance global health justice in the context of an epidemic that continues to generate devastating suffering in the lives of millions worldwide - in an era of economic crisis where international funding for life-saving AIDS treatment is under growing threat. This is a path-breaking text that opens up productive new directions for analysis and action in the field of global health justice.' - Professor Catherine Campbell, London School of Economics, UK 'In the early 2000s, South African AIDS activists fought corporate greed and indifferent political leaders. Mbali's remarkable book is an impassioned and convincing account that locates treatment activist in a transnational frame, and gives novel attention to its gendered politics. It is inspiring but not romantic-a rich account that deserves to be widely read by historians, activists, and health workers.' - Mark Hunter, University of Toronto, USA

'In a landmark case study of transnational AIDS activism, Mbali constructs a rigorous and analytically innovative framework to support a series of important and fascinating new insights into the inter-connections between history, politics and health. Her study provides a nuanced assessment - part sober, part cautiously optimistic - of the potential for social movements to advance global health justice in the context of an epidemic that continues to generate devastating suffering in the lives of millions worldwide - in an era of economic crisis where international funding for life-saving AIDS treatment is under growing threat. This is a path-breaking text that opens up productive new directions for analysis and action in the field of global health justice.' - Professor Catherine Campbell, London School of Economics, UK.

The book is particularly good at demonstrating the ways in which the historical context affected the development of AIDS activism, and how the transition to democracy both opened up new opportunities and brought new difficulties ... As Mbali's book rightly reminds us, the struggle for global health justice is founded on the work of grassroots campaigners. Activists really can make a difference. - International Affairs

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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.

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