PUBLIC MEETING - HIV/AIDS: THE STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIGNITY IN SOUTH AFRICA

An informative meeting to discuss the impact of the HIV virus in the South African population.

Speaker: Vuyiseka Dubula General Secretary of the Treatment Action Campaign.

Treatment Action Campaign (TAC)
(TAC) is a South African movement that campaigns for affordable treatment for people living with HIV and AIDS. Acclaimed and supported by, amongst many others, former South African President Nelson Mandela and nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, it is regarded internationally as an iconic movement that is the most successful of the new South African social movements to have emerged since the end of apartheid in 1994.  

Vuyiseka Dubula
Is a woman living openly with HIV. Diagnosed with HIV aged 22 she was effectively told by her doctor 'to go home and die'. This she refused to do and having joined TAC as a volunteer in 2001 she was elected the General Secretary in 2008. She is committed to ensuring that People Living with HIV have a positive voice in the struggle against HIV and that women and girls have access to health services and live equally in society free of gender and sexual violence.  

She has presented and published at multiple national and international health and human rights conferences. She was recently nominated as one of the most influential 300 young South Africans in 2009 by a leading South African newspaper.  

This meeting is supported by Fahamu www.fahamu.org

Date: 4 November, 09

Time: 6:30pm

Venue:

Tawney Hall, Ruskin Hall, Dunstan Rd, Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX3 9BZ

Contact:

Peter Dwyer:
Tel: 01865 759641
Email: pdwyer@ruskin.ac.uk