Johnson, Nkosi

Johnson, Nkosi
▪ 2002
Xolani Nkosi 
      South African activist (b. Feb. 4, 1989, Daveytown, S.Af.—d. June 1, 2001, Johannesburg, S.Af.), became the human face of AIDS in South Africa and an iconic figure in the campaign to raise money and public awareness about the disease. Johnson, who was born HIV-positive, was abandoned by his birth mother (who later died of AIDS) and was reared by a white foster mother. At the age of seven he was identified as his country's longest-surviving AIDS baby. Later his foster mother went to court to force the local primary school to enroll him as a pupil. Johnson attracted international attention in July 2000 when he made an impassioned speech at the opening ceremony of the XIII International AIDS Conference in Durban, S.Af., in which he called for compassion and improved medical treatment for AIDS sufferers, especially children and pregnant women, and implicitly criticized official South African government policy.

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