Abstract

This chapter presents the author’s experience and thoughts on ethical and political issues associated with researching HIV/AIDS in South Africa. These thoughts and experiences have been derived from the author’s engagement in research activities, supervision of postgraduate students’ research work and project work. The chapter presents a contextual landscape of the issues emerging from researching HIV/AIDS within South Africa. This contextual landscape then raises issues of ethics and politics associated with the pandemic leading to a conception of data as agency as a theoretical tool to understanding the complexity and competing agendas for researching HIV/AIDS within South Africa.Ethical issuePolitical issueHIV/AIDS researchSouth AfricaData as agencyResearcher as activistResearcher as agencyResearcher as mediatorCritical discourse analysis

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