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Title: Nelson Mandela


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Nelson Mandela
  • Cheririne Dy
  • Danielle Keiri
  • Amy Rippey
  • Charles Zurawski

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Summary
  • Janurary 6, 2005 Nelson Mandela announced
    publicly that his son, Makgatho Mandela, died of
    AIDS.
  • At Makgathos funeral, his son Mandla announced
    that his mother (Makgathos wife) died of AIDS
    eighteen months before Makgatho.
  • These two announcements from the Mandela family
    triggered an outpouring of sympathy in South
    Africa. It made AIDS more normal and less
    shameful.
  • One of the biggest criticisms made of Nelson
    Mandela is that he did not do very much about
    AIDS when he was president of South Africa from
    1994-1999
  • When he was in office S.A. became the most
    infected nation in the world.
  • HIV infection rate grew from 8 to 25 during
    these years

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  • In his defense, they did not make the extent of
    the problem evident.
  • It progresses slowly from infection to illness.
  • The first major deaths did not begin until 1997
  • When Mandela started advocating for AIDS he
    didnt know that anyone in his family was
    infected.
  • Makgatho kept his infection a secret from his
    father until 6 months before he died.
  • The family debated about going public, they were
    concerned about the young children in their family

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  • Kenneth Kaunda, the Zambian president, was first
    leader to admit that a family member had passed
    away due to AIDS. His son died in 1986.
  • During this time it was easy to deny the presence
    of AIDS in their country.
  • One reason the stigmata of AIDS endured was due
    to leadership.
  • Kaunda, Buthelezi, Graca Machel , and Museveni
    were exceptions.
  • Others at this time denied the presence of AIDS
  • One reason he did not begin earlier was that he
    did not want to speak about it was that sex and
    everything related to sex is a private subject.
  • In recent years he regrets not doing anything
    about it

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Summary
  • When Mandela left office his focus was on the
    children
  • He soon realized that AIDS needed to be focused
    on
  • First he met with leaders
  • He had the foundation put up money for a door to
    door survey about AIDS
  • They wanted hard data on the presence of AIDS
  • Results showed 30 of adults tested positive
  • Spoke at the International AIDS Conference

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  • In 2002 Mandela met with ANC leadership
  • Pleaded with ANC to provide ARVs to pregnant
    women
  • Mandela was heckled and the movement was appealed
  • Mandelas foundation decided to provide ARVs
  • Two pilot sites 1 rural area and 1 in Cape Town
  • He brought celebrities such as Oprah to Africa to
    meet the orphans
  • Met with Bill Clinton on to lower the cost of
    meds
  • Formed 46664, a concert, to raise money and
    awareness of AIDS

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Summary
  • After returning home from the concerts, Mandela
    found that AIDS fell off the agenda
  • Political leaders dodged new funding comments
  • Global fund could not meet pledges
  • UN talked of a global AIDS funding shortfall
  • Mandela aimed to reduce the stigmata
  • Embraced HIV AIDS activists, visited clinics,
    addressed people with AIDS in every speech
  • Mandela and his wife are still AIDS activists and
    determined to make a difference

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Why is Mandela in this book?
  • Mandela was the first freely elected President of
    South Africa after the end of Apartheid.
  • He served as President from May 1994 to June
    1999.
  • His son, Makgatho Mandela died of HIV/AIDS on
    January 6, 2005
  • On the day of his sons death, Mandela spoke in
    front of the media and told them his son died of
    HIV/AIDS.
  • Mandelas own family expressed reservations about
    him coming out about this, they felt his
    grandchildren would be shunned in school.

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Why is Mandela in this book?
  • Was significant because until then, HIV was not
    spoken about much publicly and the government,
    even Mandela when he held office, did not admit
    there was a pandemic. He now has shown regrets
    about not doing more while in office to prevent
    the spread of HIV/AIDS.
  • Mandela was determined to use as much of his
    political influence post-presidency as he could
    to combat the disease.
  • Mandela speaking about his son in public showed
    that HIV/AIDS was not just a disease of poor and
    uneducated, it can effect anybody.
  • In the year 2005, 800 people a day died of
    HIV/AIDS in South Africa and 6 million more are
    living with AIDS. Mandela felt he must do
    something.

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Why is Mandela in This book?
  • Mandela and his wife, Graca are trying to change
    the culture by talking more openly about sex,
    supplying retroviral drugs and educating the
    people of South Africa.
  • Mandelas successor, Thabo Mbeki did not want to
    admit there is a problem in South Africa.
    Mandela did not want to show up the new
    government, but felt he needed to still do
    something.
  • In 2000 at the National AIDS conference in
    Durban, Mandela eventually spoke out that the new
    government should be doing more as should all
    governments.

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Why is Mandela in this book?
  • Mandela spoke out against the government in 2002
    again when he said, When the top person is
    committed, the response is much more effective.
  • Mandela has since continued to bring HIV/AIDS in
    South Africa to the attention of the world. He
    and his wife Graca are trying to do everything
    they can within their power to combat HIV/AIDS.

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What does this add to our Understanding?
  • AIDS does not choose and it affects all
  • Families of rich African leaders die of AIDS
  • not just the poor
  • Very young people die of AIDS
  • Biggest challenge the African nation faces
  • AIDS is one of the leading reasons why children
    become orphans in South Africa

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What does this add to our Understanding?
  • Many die from not having access to treatment or
    most likely not being able to afford it, or
    because they live in a country too poor to
    provide basic health care
  • At least 26 million have died of AIDS 95 of
    them in the developing world
  • 45 million have HIV
  • AIDS brings shame to the victims families,
    knowing it is sexually transmitted

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Related Readings
  • BLOOD OF GANSBAAI
  • DELIAS RACE
  • CONFETTI
  • LOVE THAT KILLS

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Related Readings
  • All of these stories relate to each other in
    that they all fail to acknowledge the problem out
    of fear, shame , or denial because to acknowledge
    the disease is to make it real.

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