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Part memoir, part thought-provoking analysis, Witness to AIDS is Judge Edwin Cameron's revealing account of living with AIDS. He vividly explores what HIV/AIDS means - for him as he faces the possibility of lingering death, for all of us in facing one of the foremost challenges of our time. Edwin Cameron was tested for HIV without his knowledge and abruptly informed of his positive HIV-status. He kept this secret for many years, suffering unbearable shame, which he argues is the source of the stigma that clings to AIDS. He explains his decision to go public and to accept anti-retroviral treatment, in a country beset by denialism . He takes a critical look at what is so different about African AIDS; at the divergent reactions of Mandela and Mbeki to the crisis; the role of international pharmaceutical companies; the intricacies of race, sex, death and Africa ; and the impact of one of South Africa's largest activist groups, the Treatment Action Campaign. Cameron integrates the intensely personal with science and a considered examination of the politics and cultural forces at play, particularly in Africa, in a touching human story which ultimately speaks of hope and possibility.

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