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The virus, vitamins and vegetables : the South African HIV/AIDS mystery / edited by Kerry Cullinan & Anso Thom.
- Title
- The virus, vitamins and vegetables : the South African HIV/AIDS mystery / edited by Kerry Cullinan & Anso Thom.
- Publication
- Auckland Park, South Africa : Jacana, 2009.
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| Text | Request in advance | RA643.86.S6 V57 2009 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 211 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- This collection of essays by some of South Africa's foremost HIV/AIDS writers, doctors and activists takes us down the rabbit hole of AIDS denialism. It is a lively reconstruction of one of the most bewildering events of post-apartheid South Africa, when the democratic government questioned the link between HIV and AIDS and disputed the efficacy of antiretroviral drugs. During this period, thousands of people died unnecessarily as their treatment became the subject of intellectual debate by politicians.
- Subject
- HIV Infections > psychology
- HIV Infections
- Dissent and Disputes
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > psychology
- AIDS (Disease) > Alternative treatment > South Africa
- AIDS phobia > South Africa
- AIDS (Disease) > Political aspects > South Africa
- AIDS (Disease) > Social aspects > South Africa
- AIDS (Disease) > South Africa > History
- AIDS activists > South Africa
- South Africa
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- In the beginning there was Virodene / James Myburgh -- The President's panel / Michael Cherry -- Love, courage, insubordination and HIV/AIDS denialism / Pregs Grovender -- Courting morality : the fight to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission / Ashraf Coovadia -- Daring to care : a doctor's persecution in Mpumalanga / Thys von Mollendorff -- Government's strange bedfellows / Kerry Cullinan -- The curious tale of the vitamin seller / Anso Thom -- Garlic, olive oil, lemons and beetroot / Liz McGregor -- Traditional alternatives? / Kanya Ndaki -- Saints and sinners : the Treatment Action Campaign / Janine Stephen -- Deadly cells : the struggle of HIV positive prisoners / Khopotso Bodibe -- Speaking truth to power / Claire Keeton -- Remembering a decade of the Treatment Action Campaign / Zackie Achmat.
- ISBN
- 9781770096912 (pbk.)
- 1770096914 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2009451211
- OCLC
- 318434609
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library