At the 14th International AIDS Conference, Mandela urged leaders to treat HIV/AIDS as a public health and human rights crisis and pressed for access to affordable treatment. His advocacy connected global inequality in medicine access to lives across Africa. It also came after criticism that his own presidency had not given the epidemic sufficient priority; his later public interventions helped confront stigma but could not substitute for state policy.
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What did Mandela do publicly after Makgathoโs death in January 2005?
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His disclosure challenged silence and stigma around HIV/AIDS.
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