Launch of a new Book by Mandisa Mbali - South African Aids Activism and Global Health Politics

Friday, 7 June, 2013 - 17:30

WiSER invites you to the Launch of a new Book by

Mandisa Mbali

South African Aids Activism and Global Health Politics

06th June 2013
6:00-7:30

Speakers: Catherine Burns (WiSER, Wits University) and Nonkosi Khumalo (Chairperson of the Treatment Action Campaign and Senior Researcher at Section 27)

Published by Palgrave Macmillan

What did South African AIDS activists contribute, politically, to early international advocacy for free HIV medicines for the world's poor? Mandisa Mbali demonstrates that South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) gave moral legitimacy to the international HIV treatment access movement which enabled it to effectively push for new models of global health diplomacy and governance.

Mandisa Mbali is a Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University. She is a Rhodes scholar and obtained her doctorate in Modern History at the University of Oxford, UK.

Refreshments will be served

RSVP: Najibha.Deshmukh@wits.ac.za