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I4 :: Chapter 41: Does it fester like a sore, then run?: The AIDS crisis
► I4 :: Chapter 41: Does it fester like a sore, then run?: The AIDS crisis
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I4 |
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Chapter 41: Does it fester like a sore, then run?: The AIDS crisis |
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2000-2002 |
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Mbeki's reading of the politics of race, sexuality and global inequality; the circumstances facing him in 1999; Chris Hani urged movement to deal with AIDS; the way the political elite dealt with epidemic from 1990 onwards, too busy establishing new government; AIDS stigma around ANC heroes return; Mandela's health minister Dlamini-Zuma passionate about fight against AIDS; Mbeki speaks at Partnership against AIDS, Oct 1998; STD's and AIDS, Mbeki: doctors suspect sources of information; leaders see the truth before his people do and gently lead them toward it; Castro Hlongwane document, accepted to be Mbeki's; Mbeki: Cosatu and left, joined forces with capitalist right against Mbeki on AIDS issue, impossible to be left and serve big pharma; 28 October 1999 Mbeki questioned rape statistic and the use of AZT; the TAC formed campaigned to make AZT available; Mbeki: AIDS a racist weapon used by Afro-pessimists, ignoring real cause of the disease: poverty and underdevelopment, AIDS discourse a slight on African masculinity; Dlamini-Zuma securing cost-effective medicines; Mbeki: state of world's health in hands of corporations; 2001 SA won right to getting brand name drugs at cheapest rates; 1999: the year Mbeki became AIDS dissident, height of his sensitivity about Afropessimism, revision of politics of globalisation, his work on Nepad, thinking about global inequality, the globalisation of apartheid; 2000 poverty thesis in state of nation address, Mbeki took issue with presentation of AIDS as biggest threat to Africa, not unemployment/racism/globalisation; questioning of AIDS = quest for self-determination; myths about sexual excesses of Africans; Mbeki: AIDS discourse entrenched racist beliefs about Africans; the TAC and Mbeki have roots in the same politics, for Mbeki quest for self-determination over health became confused with political self-determination; 2000-2002 acute paranoia in Mbeki presidency, Mbeki the target of massive counter-intelligence campaign by big pharma, Mbeki advisors felt he needed to step back from the AIDS debate; April 2001 TAC/state dispute; statement following April 2001 cabinet meeting that government AIDS policy is based on premise that HIV causes AIDS.
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