Witness to AIDS

by Cameron, Edwin; Mandela, Nelson

• ISBN13: 9781845111199
• ISBN10: 1845111192
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-07
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

When Edwin Cameron announced to a stunned local and international media that he ' one of South Africa's most prominent citizens - was himself living with the virus cutting swathes through the population of the continent, the impact was immediate. In Witness to AIDS, Edwin Cameron's compelling memoir, he grapples with the meaning of HIV/AIDS: for him as he confronts the possibility of his own lingering death, and for all of us in facing up to one of the most desperate challenges of our time. In his intensely personal account of survival, Cameron blends elements of his destitute childhood with his daily duties as a senior judge and international human rights lawyer, while focusing always on the epidemic's central issues : stigma, unjust discrimination, and, most vitally, the life-and-death question of access to treatment. Cameron's remarkable story of his own survival in an epidemic that has cost millions of lives is at once moving and uplifting, sobering and ultimately hopeful.

Author Biography

Edwin Cameron is a Justice in the Supreme Court of Appeal, South Africa, and an internationally respected human rights lawyer and AIDS activist.

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(2)
Nelson Mandela
Second chances	9	(33)
Just a virus, just a disease	42	(33)
Race, sex and death in Africa	75	(28)
The tragedy of AIDS denialism in South Africa	103	(20)
A judge is called as witness to AIDS	123	(34)
`We are not the Red Cross' -- Patents, profits and death from AIDS (with Nathan Geffen)	157	(28)
Poor treatment -- Justice for poor people (with Nathan Geffen)	185	(20)
Choices	205	(11)
Notes	216	(12)
Index	228	(6)
Index of Persons	234	(2)
Acknowledgements	236