Sections

The Virodene Controversy (1997)
"AZT Toxicity"
Presidential Advisory Panel on AIDS (2000)
Mbeki's Letter to World Leaders (2000)
The Durban Declaration (July 2000)
Cost of Treatment: Political Debate
Mbeki at Opening of 13th International AIDS Conference
Mbeki Won't Acknowledge HIV/AIDS Link (September 2000)
Mbeki Fingers CIA in AIDS Conspiracy (September 2000)
Mbeki Questions HIV Testing (2001)
Mbeki and AIDS Mortality (2001)
Mbeki, AIDS and Race (October 2001)
The Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Programme
Peter Mokaba and the Castro Hlongwane Document
Mbeki Distances Himself from AIDS Dissidents (April 2002)
HIV/AIDS and Nutrition
TAC and Civil Disobedience
Antiretroviral Treatment

The Politics of HIV/AIDS in South Africa

This section highlights the steps taken by former South African President Thabo Mbeki to deal with the issue of HIV/AIDS. It was during this era that HIV/AIDS activists and civil disobedience forced the government to take a serious look at the disease and the impact it was going to have on South Africa.