[Perspectives] The battle for access to medicines for all

In 2000, I returned to Durban, South Africa for the fourth time. For my first visit, in 1997, I took a 6-month sabbatical at the faculty of law of the University of Durban-Westville (UDW). Although 1997 was the height of new HIV infections globally and in South Africa, public awareness of HIV was fairly muted—the Sarafina 2 musical scandal was rocking the country amid half-hearted HIV-prevention efforts, but the science and reality of HIV treatment was far, far away. When I returned for a shorter visit in 1998, the science of HIV reached an even lower point, with the then Minister of Health promoting Virodene, which contained an industrial solvent, as an HIV treatment.

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