On 7 June 2011 Mark Heywood and Mandisa Dlamini (the daughter of Gugu Dlamini) jointly delivered the Nkosi Johnson Memorial lecture at the opening of the 5th South African AIDS Conference. They drew attention to the crisis facing young people in South Africa and the need to link HIV prevention and care to the struggle for the right to a basic education in South Africa.

Download Mark Heywood’s talk “The importance of being angry – Growing up in a vortex of violence and deprivation” as a PDF document 140KB)

Download Mark Heywood’s slideshow as a PDF document (1127KB)

Download Mandisa Dlamini’s talk  “Lessons of my life as a young girl orphaned by AIDS” as a PDF document (81KB)

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