Law, Human Rights, and Pandemic Response: Reflecting on the South African HIV Response 25 Years Later.

The authors comment on the 1998 article "Human Rights and AIDS in South Africa: From Right Margin to Left Margin" by Mark Heywood and Morna Cornell, which examined South Africa's response to HIV five years into the epidemic and how the liberation struggle of South Africa against apartheid changed its initial response to the epidemic. Topics include the progress in South Africa in the fight against HIV/AIDS, the biggest obstacle to the HIV response, and lessons from COVID-19 and HIV.