COVID-19 Conversations with SIBONGILE TSHABALALA

This week we speak to Sibongile Tshabalala who is the Chairperson of the Treatment Action Campaign and partner with the COVID-19 Conversations weekly webinar series She was diagnosed with HIV in 2000. Sibongile is not only a positive inspiration for people living with HIV but a social justice activist on health and rights issues affecting women and the poor. In 2009, she became a member of the treatment action campaign first Laura’s branch in the Gauteng province of South Africa. And in 2012, she was elected as the provincial chairperson of the Treatment Action Campaign Gauteng.

In 2015, she was co-opted as a national Deputy General Secretary. In 2017, she was elected as the National Chairperson of the Treatment Action Campaign. Her leadership and voice have helped raise awareness that local and international platforms, including the International AIDS Society conference. She’s an Honorary Fellow at the Steve Biko Center for bioethics.