In this lecture, Edwin Cameron, Justice of South Africa’s highest court, will review what South Africa has achieved in dealing with AIDS over the past ten years, given the anguished history of fear, stigma and presidential denialism. 

The lecture will emphasise the emblems of hope in the nation’s response - most strikingly, the world's largest publicly provided anti-retroviral treatment programme, now involving nearly 3 million people - but will also consider the challenges that remain. These include prevention, discrimination, and especially stigma, both external and internal -which continues to be the most enduring and perplexing issue in the epidemic.