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It was a windy morning on Tuesday, August 7, 2007, when I drove into the premises of the Sinikithemba AIDS clinic at McCord Hospital in Durban to meet with Dr. Helga Holst, the medical superintendent at the hospital. I had worked for several months with the Siphithemba Choir, an HIV/AIDS support group and choral ensemble that functions as part of the McCord Hospital, but I only met Dr. Holst for the first time on the night of July 29, during a cocktail party at the Zimbali Lodge in Overport City. The party was organized for Professor Bruce Walker of Harvard Medical School and director of the Center for AIDS Research at the Massachusetts General Hospital, who was visiting with his research team. A middle-aged white woman, Dr. Holst, has presided over what is reckoned as one of the best “holistic HIV [and AIDS] care” in Africa1 under which program the Siphithemba Choir was born.
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Okigbo, A.C. (2014). Music and the Politics of Culture in a South African Zulu HIV/AIDS Experience: Implications for “Post-Apartheid” Discourse. In: Falola, T., Mbah, E.M. (eds) Contemporary Africa. African Histories and Modernities. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137444134_8
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