Posts Tagged HIV/AIDS
In Defence of Science: Seven points about traditional and scientific medicine
Posted by Zackie Achmat in HIV/AIDS & Health, South African politics, Treatment Action Campaign on 02/09/2010
In a couple of days, I will complete my first six years on antiretroviral treatment — I started taking HIV medicines on 05 September 2003. I am still on my first regimen zidovudine (AZT), lamivudine (3TC) and nevirapine (NVP). I am alive because of science and activism. To remember those who have given their lives [...]
Report: Children live a short, hungry, sick and brutal life — build a movement
Posted by Zackie Achmat in HIV/AIDS & Health, Social Justice Coalition, South African politics on 29/07/2010
Many children live a short, hungry and brutal life in the richest country on the African continent and one of the wealthiest in the developing world. In 2008, nearly 12 million or 64% of all children lived in households with a monthly income (excluding social grants) of less than R569.00 per month. This rate varies [...]
ARV medicines: Protest Governments and Drug Companies
Posted by Zackie Achmat in HIV/AIDS & Health, South African politics, Treatment Action Campaign on 03/07/2010
Corporate profiteering has the protection of the state in South Africa, the European Union and India. This is illustrated in the two issues reported by the Treatment Action Campaign and Section 27 incorporating the AIDS Law Project in the posts below. 1) The first post deals with a court judgment on the 2008 ARV tender [...]
Ronald Louw died of HIV-related TB on 26 June 2005
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 23/06/2010
Five years ago Ronald Louw died of HIV-related TB. He was a friend and comrade. He is remembered by thousands of people whose lives he touched. Below is an obituary I wrote after his death and a video insert by Jack Lewis and the Community Media Trust team.
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PRESIDENT MUTHARIKA WE OPPOSE HOMOPHOBIA AND PRESIDENT OBAMA’S ADMINSTRATION RESPONDS — Join Cape Town Malawi Protest Tomorrow & Read SA Health Minister’s Speech
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 19/05/2010
Protest Malawi in Cape Town tomorrow Comment on speech by SA Health Minister to World Health Assembly and President Obama adminstration President Bingu Wa Mutharika The unjust laws against LGBTI people in Malawi and throughout our continent Africa must be removed. Every person has a duty to speak out especially progressive people in Africa. Authoritarian [...]
Obama Protest Pictures — Circulate
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 14/05/2010
Obama Pictures500 hundred mainly working class and poor African-American people came to express solidarity.
PROTEST OBAMA’S CUTS TO AIDS TREATMENT FOR AFRICA! Thursday 13th May 2010 — outside St. Regis Hotel 55th Street at 5th Avenue
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 11/05/2010
Encourage all your friends, family, co-workers and strangers to join this protest — Save Lives — Build, HIV and Development Programmes NOT War and Ban AIDS Activists Announce Plans to Protest Obama’s Broken AIDS Promises at DCCC Fundraiser When/Where: 5:00 PM, Thurs, May 13th, outside the St Regis Hotel, 55th St. at 5th Ave, NYC [...]
Barack Obama, George Bush and the Right to Life
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 03/05/2010
What is President Barack Obama, Rahm Emmanuel and his brother Zeke Emanuel up to in Africa and South Africa? When people in the United States elected Barack Obama their President, it symbolised historic change in the US and elsewhere. The most important global expectations placed on the Obama administration included starting to mend the imperial [...]
Minister Aaron Motsoaledi delivers — 15 million people to be tested. Get tested. Prevent HIV. Get treated. Always use a condom!
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 26/03/2010
On 15 April 2010, for the first time in the history of the South African epidemic, a real properly resourced HIV testing campaign will be launched. Minister of Health Dr. Aaaron Motsoaledi is leading the largest every HIV testing drive on the continent with a target to test 15 million people by June 2011. (see [...]
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