Steven Robins
Long live Zackie, long live': AIDS activism, science and citizenship after apartheid
Stellenbosch University
article analyses complex cultural politics hivaids south africa focuses aids dissident science impacted policy discourses aids activists together scientists media health professionals responded also shows hivaids debate struggles access treatment framed historically embedded cultural political interpretations aids product south africas apartheid postapartheid history however rather adopting cultural nationalist response historical legacy activists treatment action campaign tac deployed classbased politics concentrated access antiretroviral drugs rather debates complexities aids causation approach contrasts attempts aids activists united states influence production scientific knowledge aids directly example research funding protocols trials article discusses tac partner organisation medicins sans frontires msf doctors without borders strategically positioned struggle access aids drugs new forms health citizenship gendered identities political subjectivities emerged course struggles example ideas bodily autonomy associated liberal individualist conceptions citizenship collided patriarchal cultural ideas practices prevent many women accessing biomedical interventions example contraception hiv testing treatment biomedical paradigm underpinned tac msf campaigns also contend local understandings misfortune illness tacs strategies included networking global civil society organisations msf health gap oxfam also involved grassroots mobilisation engagement local sociocultural realities brand health activism produced solidarities straddled local national global spaces resembling arjun appadurai others describe globalisation