AbstractThis article discusses South African women’s narrative and artistic responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, to include Thembi Ngubane’s radio broadcast “Out of hiding, into the world: Thembi’s AIDS Diary” and the Bambanani Women’s Group’s collection Long Life … Positive HIV Stories. Produced in South Africa for a global audience, these texts use narrative as a strategy for intervention through their multi-media representations of HIV/AIDS that challenge sensationalist, and often Western, accounts of the epidemic in Africa. This article claims that both Thembi Ngubane’s radio diary and Long Life represent the struggle against HIV/AIDS as a human rights issue, and that they both assert the significance of narrative as a form of activism that facilitates solidarity among women affected by HIV/AIDS. More specifically, this article argues that, collectively, the women’s communal and individual stories advance a form of active citizenship that incorporates narrative as a political strategy, challenges popul...