Witness To AIDS (Autobiography)
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (756 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1845111192 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-29 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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. 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 Witness to AIDS, Edwin Cameron&rsquo
The fearless gaze he casts into his own soul lifts his story beyond the AIDS epidemic in one place and time and makes it a timeless gift for the spiritual renewal of us all."" --Susan Hunter, Independent Consultant to world health organizations""Cameron tells a the story of both his own travail and South Africa's wider plight with the kind of admirable honesty that he urges others to adopt.""--Oxford Today, Hilary Issue, 2006. ""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. 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 questi
Foster Corbin said A Witness To AIDS In Africa. 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 Afri. 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 Afr. 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 Afr