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After being diagnosed with HIV at 33, retired Constitutional Court justice Edwin Cameron never thought he’d make it to 40. He’s now 73 and part of a generation that is growing older thanks to antiretrovirals and, he says, the activism that made sure it was available in South Africa. Photo: Stefan Els
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HIV made him expect to die at 40. At 73, Edwin Cameron asks: Who’s planning for our ageing survivors?

At 33, the retired Constitutional Court justice thought he had, maybe, seven years left. His story traces the arc from certain death because of Aids to a chronic, manageable…

  • Tanya Pampalone
  • Mia Malan
14 min read
Scarce: People fill up water containers for home use from a well near Sudan’s most populous city, Omdurman, on 21 March, a day before Unesco’s World Water Day, to focus attention on clean water and the sustainable use of water resources. Photo: Ashraf Shazly/Getty Images
CLIMATE CHANGE

Risk of water crisis looms – UN

Citizen activists have warned that the water situation in South Africa is ‘dire and precarious’

  • Sheree Bega
5 min read
A memoir on Mark Heywood’s time in South Africa
MARK HEYWOOD

Self-reflections of an activist

Mark Heywood’s book avoids plain history. Instead it encourages its readers to reflect.

  • Jane Rosenthal
4 min read
Those most at risk of HIV are still fighting to be heard. But there’s a lot we can learn from the fight against HIV.
HIV AIDS

[LISTEN] What can the fight against corruption learn from the Aids struggle?

Those most at risk of HIV are still fighting to be heard. But there’s a lot we can learn from the fight against HIV.

  • Mia Malan
1 min read
There is a silent nostalgia for Mbeki to return to the country’s mainstream political discourse. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)
AIDS

Mark Heywood: ‘I was pitched against the very government I had fought for’

Activists litigated to force government to give HIV-positive people antiretrovirals. Mia Malan talks to Mark Heywood about the political consequences

  • Mia Malan
1 min read
BENNY MALAKOANE

Health MEC’s deadly PR parade

As Benny Malakoane showed off progress in Free State, 317 patients were left in the dark over their cancer status.

  • Amy Green
11 min read
The high court hearing of aparthied-era biological project head Wouter Basson has been postponed.
BHEKISISA TEAM

Analysis: Tempers flare at Dr Death hearing

A move to ban Wouter Basson from medicine has been met with a tongue-lashing from his lawyer.

  • Mia Malan
  • Bhekisisa Team
4 min read
GWEDE MANTASHE

We should be allies, not enemies, Gwede Mantashe

An open letter to ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe

  • Mark Heywood 1
6 min read
FREE STATE

Drug trove expiring in clinic fiasco

Rent arrears have shut a clinic’s doors – just 500m from the Free State health MEC’s office.

  • Amy Green
4 min read
Although working conditions are tough in rural areas
BUDGET 2014

Health services too sick to mention

Activists says Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan misrepresented the true state of the country’s health in his budget speech.

  • Bhekisisa Team
  • Ina Skosana
3 min read
Adam Habib.
ADAM HABIB

Wits’s Habib: Divide and conquer the elite

Wits vice-chancellor Adam Habib warned during a discussion about his book that the elite will not give up power to the poor unless they are coerced.

  • Sarah Evans
3 min read
Civil society unapologetic over conference
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Civil society unapologetic over conference

The ANC’s reaction to a civil society conference was "reminiscent of the paranoia of the Mbeki era", the conference co-hosts said on Wednesday.

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read
MARK HEYWOOD

Army agrees HIV discrimination unlawful

HIV-positive people will be able to join the South African National Defence Force after it admitted in the Pretoria High Court on Friday that its policies preventing HIV-positive…

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
AIDS

Aids activists dismayed by ANC leadership race

The battle to lead the African National Congress (ANC) pits an Aids dissident against a rival who took a shower as a form of safe sex, in a country that has the world’s highest…

  • Aderogba Obisesan
3 min read
JONATHAN BERGER

Sanac adopts strategic plan to combat HIV/Aids

The South African National Aids Council (Sanac) has adopted a strategic plan to respond to HIV/Aids challenges in the country, it said on Tuesday. This was announced at a Sanac…

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

TAC: Manto’s statement ‘a gross distortion of the truth’

Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s statement concerning dual-therapy HIV treatment was a ”gross distortion of the truth”, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) said on…

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read