Government Responses to HIV/AIDS in South Africa as Reported in the Media, 1983–1994

Grundlingh, Louis

doi:10.1080/02582470108671405

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“…By 1988, however, the potential for a widespread epidemic amongst the black heterosexual population was recognised by government of cials and basic AIDS-awareness and prevention programmes were initiated. In 1990, for example, there were already policies in place to issue free condoms in clinics and AIDS-awareness campaigns were being launched in black townships (see Grundlingh 2001). Doubting that the apartheid regime would ever act in the true interests of black people, many residents of Soweto insisted that the free condoms were really intended to reduce the black birth rate in order to secure white domination.…”

Section: The Aids Epidemic As a Public Health Crisismentioning

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An Epidemic of Witchcraft? The Implications of AIDS for the Post-Apartheid State

Ashforth¹

2002

African Studies

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Section: The Aids Epidemic As a Public Health Crisismentioning

confidence: 98%

An Epidemic of Witchcraft? The Implications of AIDS for the Post-Apartheid State

Ashforth¹

2002

African Studies

113

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“…This initial finding of HIV within the homosexual community led to the (misguided) prejudice that AIDS was a “homosexual disease.” Believing that it would not affect the wider population, the apartheid government took a passive role. Government officials, however, found themselves in a difficult position when the first HIV cases within the heterosexual population were reported (Grundlingh, 2001). This led the apartheid government to promote condom use.…”

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Self-Representation of Marginalized Groups: A New Way of Thinking through W. E. B. Du Bois

Chowdhury

2021

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I address an interesting puzzle of how marginalized groups gain self-representation and influence firms’ strategies. Accordingly, I examine the case of access to low-cost HIV/AIDS drugs in South Africa by integrating W. E. B. Du Bois’s work into stakeholder theory. Du Bois’s scholarly work, most notably his founding contribution to Black scholarship, has profound significance in the humanities and social sciences disciplines and vast potential to inspire a new way of thinking and doing research in the management and organization fields, including business ethics research. By drawing on Du Bois’s works, I argue that through reconstruction of their selves—knowing their souls—marginalized groups know their capabilities better, enabling them to overcome their political and strategic limitations and ensure their true self-representation. They are also empowered to use political imagination and strategies of resistance against more powerful opponents. This influences powerful actors to accept the demands of marginalized groups.

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“…HIV was first noticed in the early 1980s when two white male homosexual airline flight attendants died of AIDS. By 1987, however, HIV had a strong and growing presence in the general population (Grundlingh 2001). The apartheid government initially did little to combat the epidemic and its early efforts to promote HIV/AIDS awareness were ineffective in large part because the government lacked credibility with the black majority.…”

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The impacts of AIDS movements on the policy responses to HIV/AIDS in Brazil and South Africa: A comparative analysis

Nunn

Dickman

Nattrass

et al. 2012

Global Public Health

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Brazil and South Africa were among the first countries profoundly impacted by the HIV/AIDS epidemic and had similar rates of HIV infection in the early 1990s. Today, Brazil has less than 1% adult HIV prevalence, implemented treatment and prevention programmes early in the epidemic, and now has exemplary HIV/AIDS programmes. South Africa, by contrast, has HIV prevalence of 18% and was, until recently, infamous for its delayed and inappropriate response to the HIV/ AIDS epidemic. This article explores how differing relationships between AIDS movements and governments have impacted the evolving policy responses to the AIDS epidemic in both countries, including through AIDS programme finance, leadership and industrial policy related to production of generic medicines.

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Government Responses to HIV/AIDS in South Africa as Reported in the Media, 1983–1994

Cited by 19 publications

References 9 publications

An Epidemic of Witchcraft? The Implications of AIDS for the Post-Apartheid State

An Epidemic of Witchcraft? The Implications of AIDS for the Post-Apartheid State

Self-Representation of Marginalized Groups: A New Way of Thinking through W. E. B. Du Bois

The impacts of AIDS movements on the policy responses to HIV/AIDS in Brazil and South Africa: A comparative analysis

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