Posts Tagged Treatment Action Campaign
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 [...]
Water is life (but life is cheap) Pierre De Vos
Posted by Zackie Achmat in South African politics, Treatment Action Campaign on 21/07/2010
The Constitutional Court’s 2009 judgment on access to water is one of its most important cases. Pierre de Vos has criticised the judgment as a conservative retreat from the Court’s jurisprudence. In my view, the judgment despite one or two errors is fundamentally sound. For the first time the Court properly opens the debate on [...]
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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The orange dress at the World Cup: a weapon of mass destruction?
Posted by Zackie Achmat in Uncategorized on 21/06/2010
Ironically, the Soccer World Cup has highlighted the fact that access to justice is the scarcest commodity in our country. Every person in our country lives with a deep physical and psychological insecurity because of violent crime. The Mail and Guardian article below is an indictment of government and FIFA because it treats some “criminals” [...]
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