Unpacking the post-apartheid narrative on AIDS and black women

By: Gcobani Qambela
... A key question raised by Rhodes University Lecturer, Siphokazi Magadla at the seminar paints the rationale for this short piece. She questioned the extent to which the post 1990 narrative of AIDS has since then shifted from primarily HIV positive white homosexual men (from 1980-1990), to poor black women in the townships/rural areas (post 1990) and consequently repeating the same mistake as made by the medical researchers in the 1980’s/1990’s. Indeed, this cannot be denied – it is happening. The dominant post-apartheid discourse on AIDS has shifted primarily to black women, and black women alone as the carriers and the most affected individuals for the HIV pandemic....

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SEE THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE: http://feministssa.com/2011/04/04/unpacking-the-post-apartheid-narrative-on-aids-and-black-women/