Witness To AIDS (Autobiography)
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (577 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1845111192 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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In Witness to AIDS, Edwin Cameron’s compelling memoir, he grapples with the meaning of HIV/AIDS: for him as he confronts the possibility of his own lingering death, and for all of us in facing up to one of the most desperate challenges of our time. Cameron's remarkable story of his own survival in an epidemic that has cost millions of lives is at once moving and uplifting, sobering and ultimately hopeful.. 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. In his intensely personal account of survival, Cameron blends elements of his destitute childhood with his daily duties as a senior judge and international human rights lawyer, while focusing always on the epidemic's central issues : stigma, unjust discrimination, and, most vitally, the life-and-death question of access to treatment
""This book will be a major contribution by a courageous South African towards that quest for a better life for all.""--Nelson Mandela ""If truth is beauty, this relentlessly brilliant and hopeful book is beautiful. Cameron's stunning prose draws us into the heartbreak and the triumph that is AIDS in South Africa, and his honest confrontation with the moral and physical reality of AIDS and its meaning for his own body and the body politic informs our hearts and minds. Judge Edwin Cameron is one of them. It is a text to live by, if we aspire to the possibility of a better life for all…in a world widely threatened by HIV/Aids."" --Nadine Gordimr, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 1991 ""Cameron addresses the taboo questions of race, sexual orientation, poverty and stigma in the context of the HIV/Aids epidemic, writing almost always from a personal perspective, but with an unconditional commitm
A Witness To AIDS In Africa Foster Corbin In WITNESS TO AIDS, Edwin Cameron, a white South African judge discusses the AIDS pandemic in that nation and the world from both the political and the personal for he is a gay man living with AIDS-- and a very brave and compassionate one. Cameron understands totally that he is a lucky man because of the color of his skin and his relatively affluent position. He is able to afford the drugs that keep him alive but are out of the reach of most black Africans.Mr. Cameron (should I refer to him as judge?) is brave in that he has always spoken out against racism, is not afraid to challen. AvidReader said Witness to AIDS -- Worthwhile, Interesting Read. Justice Cameron (now appointed to South Africa's Constitutional Court) gives a brave account of his personal story and struggle against AIDS. As a previous reviewer suggests, the book could have been more heavily edited (it is repetitive in parts). Written in "Witness to AIDS -- Worthwhile, Interesting Read" according to AvidReader. Justice Cameron (now appointed to South Africa's Constitutional Court) gives a brave account of his personal story and struggle against AIDS. As a previous reviewer suggests, the book could have been more heavily edited (it is repetitive in parts). Written in 2005, some of the stats and figures are also now outdated. Nonetheless, it is a very worthwhile read that gives interesting insight into the stigma of AIDs, the Sub-Saharan epidemic, and South Africa's failed AIDs policies.Edwin Cameron: Witness to AIDS. 005, some of the stats and figures are also now outdated. Nonetheless, it is a very worthwhile read that gives interesting insight into the stigma of AIDs, the Sub-Saharan epidemic, and South Africa's failed AIDs policies.Edwin Cameron: Witness to AIDS