Justice After AIDS Denialism: Should There Be Prosecutions and Compensation?
| dc.contributor.author | Geffen, Nathan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-24T09:35:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-24T09:35:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-05-24T08:09:49Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Edward Mabunda died on April 9, 2003. At least another 600 people died of AIDS in South Africa that day.1 Edward was just 36 years old. He left behind a wife and 3 children. He was also a leader in the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). He became an icon of the movement because of the fiery poetry that he recited to thousands of people. His poems urged former President Thabo Mbeki to make antiretrovirals (ARVs) available in South Africa’s public health system. He died because he could not obtain these life-saving medicines in time. From 1999 to 2007, Mbeki and his Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang obstructed and then undermined the implementation of highly active ARV treatment (HAART) and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the public health system. Two studies, conducted independently of each other, conservatively calculated that over 300,000 people died because of Mbeki’s AIDS denialist policies.3–5 Edward Mabunda was one of them. These studies could not account for additional deaths due to the promotion of quackery, often with the health minister’s support. They also did not consider the number of infections that occurred because of the confusion generated by the insipid state-funded prevention campaign and the messages by some outspoken Mbeki supporters dismissing the link between sex and HIV infection.6 The Mbeki era also fostered a profound mistrust of scientific medicine, the consequences of which also cannot be quantified. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0b013e3181ab6da2 | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Geffen, N. (2009). Justice After AIDS Denialism: Should There Be Prosecutions and Compensation?. <i>Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19826 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Geffen, Nathan "Justice After AIDS Denialism: Should There Be Prosecutions and Compensation?." <i>Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes</i> (2009) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19826 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Geffen, N. (2009). Justice after AIDS denialism: should there be prosecutions and compensation?. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 51(4), 454-455. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1525-4135 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Geffen, Nathan AB - Edward Mabunda died on April 9, 2003. At least another 600 people died of AIDS in South Africa that day.1 Edward was just 36 years old. He left behind a wife and 3 children. He was also a leader in the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). He became an icon of the movement because of the fiery poetry that he recited to thousands of people. His poems urged former President Thabo Mbeki to make antiretrovirals (ARVs) available in South Africa’s public health system. He died because he could not obtain these life-saving medicines in time. From 1999 to 2007, Mbeki and his Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang obstructed and then undermined the implementation of highly active ARV treatment (HAART) and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the public health system. Two studies, conducted independently of each other, conservatively calculated that over 300,000 people died because of Mbeki’s AIDS denialist policies.3–5 Edward Mabunda was one of them. These studies could not account for additional deaths due to the promotion of quackery, often with the health minister’s support. They also did not consider the number of infections that occurred because of the confusion generated by the insipid state-funded prevention campaign and the messages by some outspoken Mbeki supporters dismissing the link between sex and HIV infection.6 The Mbeki era also fostered a profound mistrust of scientific medicine, the consequences of which also cannot be quantified. DA - 2009 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2009 SM - 1525-4135 T1 - Justice After AIDS Denialism: Should There Be Prosecutions and Compensation? TI - Justice After AIDS Denialism: Should There Be Prosecutions and Compensation? UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19826 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19826 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Geffen N. Justice After AIDS Denialism: Should There Be Prosecutions and Compensation?. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 2009; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19826. | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes | en_ZA |
| dc.source.uri | http://journals.lww.com/jaids/pages/default.aspx | |
| dc.title | Justice After AIDS Denialism: Should There Be Prosecutions and Compensation? | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
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| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Article | en_ZA |