By outlining the political context that shaped the development of AIDS policy in South Africa
and highlighting the deeply political aspects of the AIDS crisis, this paper shows why the …

AIDS policy is one of the most notorious features of postapartheid South Africa. In 1990,
when the ban against the African National Congress (ANC) was lifted and South Africa …

While President Mbeki's statements questioning conventional views on the causes of AIDS
may have seemed bizarre to many, these statements have a much clearer logic when seen …

In common with the rest of the Southern African sub-continent, South Africa is currently
experiencing a serious HIV epidemic. When it came into power in 1994, the new, Mandela …

This book explains how issues of governance lie at the heart of understanding and
combating the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa. It reviews the debates surrounding the root causes …

Recent post-apartheid Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) policy-making in
South Africa has been contested terrain, where civil society organisations like the Treatment …

Political Science as an academic discipline has been slow to grapple with the enormous
implications of the AIDS crisis for much of the developing world. This article argues that …

This article aims to explain South Africa's controversial post-1994 HIV/AIDS policy. It isolates
two competing sets of policy prescriptions: a 'mobilization/biomedical'paradigm that …

Post-apartheid AIDS policy-making in South Africa has been characterised by conflict
between the government, civil society and the medical profession (Schneider 2001). At the …

A decade ago it seemed likely that African governments would be destabilised by the impact
of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This article tests some of the presumptions in such forecasting …