Affiliating himself with the Treatment Action Campaign, he urged Mbeki's government to ensure that HIV-positive South Africans had access to anti-retrovirals. Meanwhile, Mandela was successfully treated for prostate cancer in July 2001
Pogwirizana ndi chikoka chothandiza anthu kupeza chithandizo chamatenda, adalimbikitsa boma la Mbeki kuti liwonetsetse kuti anthu omwe ali ndi kachilombo ka HIV ku South Africa ali ndi mwayi wogwiritsa ntchito ma ARV. Panthawiyi, Mandela adachiritsidwa bwino ndi khansa ya prostate mu July 2001