Interview: “I used that anger to feed my activist’s soul,” says former TAC General Secretary

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In 2001, at age 22, Vuyiseka Dubula-Majola joined the Treatment Action Campaign in its fight to bring antiretrovirals to South Africa. Today, she walks the streets of Geneva in Switzerland to get to her job as head of the Global Fund’s community, rights and gender department. Biénne Huisman spoke with Dubula-Majola about her remarkable journey, balancing activism with diplomacy, and the struggle “to build and regain the dignity of poor people around the globe”.

Interview: “I used that anger to feed my activist’s soul,” says former TAC General Secretary

“It took me three seconds to decide” – Fareed Abdullah reflects on his career in public health

Posted in: Edition 9: State of HIV, Healthcare system, HIV/AIDS, Latest

Over the last three decades, Dr Fareed Abdullah has been at the coalface of South Africa’s response to HIV, tuberculosis, and more recently, COVID-19. Biénne Huisman chatted with Abdullah about providing antiretrovirals in the time of AIDS denialism, National Health Insurance, working as a medical doctor, and the toll HIV has sadly taken on his own family.

“It took me three seconds to decide” – Fareed Abdullah reflects on his career in public health

Pledge for Prudence

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Mark Heywood paid tribute to AIDS, human rights and gender activist Prudence Mabele who recently passed away.

Activism and Civil society: what it is and what it’s not

Posted in: Editorial, Latest, Sections, Spotlight, Spotlight Edition 1

By Mark Heywood – 2016 is a year of AIDS anniversaries. It is the 20th anniversary of the International AIDS conference in Vancouver where the successful use of combination antiretroviral therapy for the treatment of HIV was first announced. A full version of the special edition of Spotlight will be released during the International AIDS Conference in Durban which starts on 17 July. This is an article which will be published in Spotlight.