ABSTRACT
Social movements, identity politics, and activism enjoy an active and well-consolidated research agenda in political science. From the beginning, identity politics has played one of the most important roles in the formation of the movements around HIV. Youde traced South Africa's failure to implement a treatment programme to a 'fundamental disjuncture' between South African politicians and the international HIV epistemic community, giving rise to a counter-community in South Africa. Scholarship on gay and lesbian activism in the last 30 years has thus had to grapple with the place of the HIV pandemic in the movement. There are also studies that examine how HIV might affect the security position and posture of states. Examining the Security Council's claims in 2000 that HIV posed risks to state stability, national security, peacekeeping operations, and that violence exacerbates the virus's spread, noted that the evidence since 2000 showed the linkages to be less clear, more complex, and more case-dependent.
