The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) is a South African HIV/AIDS activist organisation which was co-founded by the HIV-positive activist Zackie Achmat in 1998. TAC is rooted in the experiences,direct action tactics and anti-apartheid background of its founder. TAC has been credited with forcing the reluctant government of former South African President Thabo Mbeki to begin making antiretroviral drugs available to South Africans.
Mantombazana "Manto" Edmie Tshabalala-Msimang OMSS was a South African politician. She was Deputy Minister of Justice from 1996 to 1999 and served as Minister of Health from 1999 to 2008 under President Thabo Mbeki. She also served as Minister in the Presidency under President Kgalema Motlanthe from September 2008 to May 2009.
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is a South African politician and former United Nations official,who served as the Executive Director of UN Women with the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Dolores Balderamos-García is a Belizean lawyer,politician,activist,broadcaster and author.
HIV/AIDS is one of the most serious health concerns in South Africa. The country has the highest number of people afflicted with HIV of any country,and the fourth-highest adult HIV prevalence rate,according to the 2019 United Nations statistics.
Jennifer Jako is an AIDS activist,filmmaker,photographer,lecturer and designer. She is the co-director of the documentary film,Blood Lines,a portrait of HIV-positive youth. Following her infection with HIV at age 18,she began educating in the hopes of preventing HIV infection in young people.
Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge is a South African politician who was South Africa's Deputy Minister of Defence from 1999 to April 2004 and Deputy Minister of Health from April 2004 to August 2007. President Thabo Mbeki dismissed her from the Cabinet on 8 August 2007,after which she maintained her role as a member of parliament representing the African National Congress. On 25 September 2008,she became Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly,serving in that capacity until resigning from Parliament in early May 2009. She has been a member of the South African Communist Party since 1984.
Awa Marie Coll-Seck is as Senegalese infectious diseases specialist and politician who served as Minister of Health of Senegal from 2001 to 2003 and again from 2012 to 2017. She also served as former Executive Director of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership and is on the board of directors of several notable global health organizations. She is an agenda contributor of the World Economic Forum.
Given Lubinda is a Zambian politician who served in the Cabinet of Zambia as Minister of Justice. He is a former Member of Parliament for the National Assembly of Zambia for Kabwata Constituency in Lusaka. He was first elected as Kabwata MP in 2001 under the UPND ticket and was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2013. Following the retirement of Edgar Lungu from active politics after the 2021 election,Given Lubinda was the acting president of the former ruling party,the Patriotic Front. However,Edgar Lungu returned to active politics in October 2023 and he was handed back the Patriotic Front presidency,with Given Lubinda being appointed as the party's vice-president,a position he held before Lungu's retirement after the 2021 election. Lubinda is of mixed-race parentage. He is known as an outspoken politician.
Mary Fisher is an American political activist,artist and author. After contracting HIV from her second husband,she has become an outspoken HIV/AIDS-activist for the prevention,education and for the compassionate treatment of people with HIV and AIDS. Fisher is particularly noted for speeches before two Republican Conventions:Houston in 1992 and San Diego in 1996. The 1992 speech has been hailed as "one of the best American speeches of the 20th Century".
Lindiwe Daphney Zulu is a South African politician and communications strategist who served as Minister of Social Development from May 2019 to May 2024. Before that she was the Minister of Small Business Development from 2014 to 2019. A member of the African National Congress (ANC),she has served on the party's National Executive Committee since December 2007.
Nkandu Phoebe Luo is a Zambian microbiologist and politician who was a vice presidential candidate for the Patriotic Front in the August 2021 election. She is a microbiologist who previously served as Head of Pathology and Microbiology at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka and has carried out extensive research into HIV/AIDS.
Sylvia Masebo is a Zambian entrepreneur,politician,and National Assembly of Zambia representative for Chongwe constituency with the United Party for National Development (UPND). Sylvia Masebo holds a degree in Banking and Finance. She first stood on the ticket of Zambian Republican Party (ZRP) in 2001,then the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) in 2003,then the Patriotic Front (PF) in 2011,and then the UPND in 2021.
Hendrietta Ipeleng Bogopane-Zulu is a South African politician and activist who is currently serving as Deputy Minister of Social Development since 26 May 2014. She represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1999 to 2019.
Nakatindi Yeta Nganga (1922–1972) was a Lozi aristocrat and Zambian politician. Jointly one of the first women elected to the National Assembly,she was also the country's first female junior minister.
Patrick Mwewa Anthony Chikusu was a Zambian politician who served as member of the National Assembly for Katuba constituency under the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD). At the time of his death Chikusu served as Deputy Minister of Health in the Republic of Zambia.
Neliswa Peggy Nkonyeni is a South African politician and educator. A member of the African National Congress,she was the Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Finance in KwaZulu-Natal from August 2022 until June 2024.
Nomalungelo Gina is a South African politician from KwaZulu-Natal who is currently serving as the Deputy Minister of Science,Technology and Innovation since June 2024. She has represented the African National Congress in the National Assembly since May 2009.
Saboi Imboela is a Zambian politician who leads the National Democratic Congress,a Zambian opposition political party. Previously,she was a singer for the singing group Shatel in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Mwabashike Nkulukusa is a Zambian Politician and Businessman. He currently serves as the Member of Parliament for Katuba constituency and as the Provincial Minister for Central Province.
