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BACKGROUND - LONG LIFE
In 2002, only 25,000 of the 4.7 million people living with HIV and AIDS in South Africa had access to life-saving medications. Six hundred people were dying of AIDS every day.
In 2002, the Memory Box Project at the University of Cape Town began to run Memory Box workshops in Khayelitsha. “Memory work” [...]

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December 1 2007- February 2008
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CUNY College Brooklyn, New York, for World AIDS day December 1 2007

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Originaly published on - ‘Walking to a new rhythm’, M&G, June 23, 2006 http://www.chico.mweb.co.za/art/2006/2006jun/060623-adam.html
In the mid-1990s, while many South Africans were returning home from exile, Adam Levin was developing itchy feet and turning the other way. Of his life in Johannesburg, he wrote: “I am growing weary of life in this jungle. This savage hunting for money and things … it is time to walk again. To walk till my feet turn a tar road back to dirt.” This led him on his Wonder Safaris, through 20 African countries, in search of what it means to be an African. It restored his “miracle eye”, and changed his life.

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Justice Carole Lewis – Bloemfontein launch – 10 May 2005

Originally published on http://www.witnesstoaids.com/reviews.html#review3

Edwin Cameron’s moving and powerful account of his life with AIDS is a story not just about being a survivor and a witness to an epidemic that engulfs this continent.
It is also a story about personal courage. It is about a man with a public profile who made the decision to reveal his medical status in the full knowledge that it would bare his personal life to South Africans and many others worldwide.
It is about a man who knew that he would attract opprobrium and the wrath of politicians.

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In his book, Witness to AIDS, Edwin Cameron tells a ghastly story about Botswana . Knowing that up to a third of its population had HIV or AIDS, and that about 100 000 people were in urgent need of drugs, in 2001 Botswana’s government began to offer free anti-retroviral treatment to every citizen with AIDS. Yet, by late 2003, only 15 000 people had appeared at public health facilities for free medication. Why?

“Stigma,” is Cameron’s answer. “People are too scared — too ashamed — to come forward and claim what their government is now affording them: the right to stay alive.” Indeed, he says, “in some horrifically constrained sense, they are ‘choosing’ to die, rather than face the stigma of AIDS and find treatment”.

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By Luiz DeBarros
Originally published July 20, 2006 on http://www.mambaonline.com/

I remember writer and journalist Adam Levin in the late nineties. We weren’t friends, but he was often out and about on the Joburg gay scene and I briefly worked with him on a documentary in 1996. Then he disappeared.

I heard gossip that he was sick with Aids. When I briefly spotted him at party a few years later, I couldn’t reconcile the frail looking man with the person I remembered. Soon after, I heard that he was at death’s door.

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State of the Nation: South Africa 2004 – 2005 provides a comprehensive and frank picture of contemporary South African.

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This is the story of a small black boy and his indomitable white mother’s courageous battle against Aids. Nkosi’s biological mother was dying when Gail Johnson took the two-year-old into her home.

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Author: Jane Fox, English, NonArt.

Specifications: Soft cover, 210x145mm, 303 pp
, ISBN: 978 0864 865335 .

Price (ZA) R135.00

When Edwin Cameron announced to a stunned local and international media that he – one of South Africa’s most prominent citizens - was himself living with the virus cutting swathes through the population of the continent, the impact was immediate.

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Author: Edwin Cameron, English, NonArt.

Specifications: Soft cover, 208x134mm, 238 pp, b&w photographs
, ISBN: 978 0624 041993 .

Price (ZA) R150.00

Oak Tree Press and David Krut Publishing present the First Chapter Series of Booker prize-winning novels. The books are printed in an edition of 350 and the luxury edition of 35 is handbound and presented in an elegant clothbound slipcase, with an original artwork commisioned for the book. All of the books are signed by [...]

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