Treatment Action Campaign

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TAC action in front of the South African Parliament, February 2003

The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) is a South African non-governmental organization founded on December 10, 1998 by Zackie Achmat and 10 other people in protest against the HIV drug policy of the then government , in which almost all members work on a voluntary basis. Those who support them wear t-shirts with the words HIV-POSITIVE during public campaigns .

The organization works to ensure that all AIDS sufferers can be helped. The main concerns of TAC are intensive educational work and the fight for affordable drugs for HIV-positive people in South Africa. In 2002, the organization achieved a fundamental success before the South African Constitutional Court , which ruled that the country's government was required to provide preventive health protection through the provision of antiretroviral drugs to mothers when their children are born.

The TAC has around 8,000 members, who have 182 offices in seven of the nine provinces of South Africa for organizational work. According to the organization, 12 percent of the South African population are HIV-positive, of which a quarter are between the ages of 15 and 49. Around 2.4 million people in the country received antiretroviral therapy in mid-2014 .

TAC is a partner of Bread for the World and is supported by Ashoka .

On August 30, 2006, the New York Times described TAC as “probably the world's most effective AIDS group” (German: “ probably the world's most efficient AIDS activist group”).

See also

Web links

Commons : Treatment Action Campaign  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ South African History Online: HIV / AIDS in South Africa . on www.sahistory.org.za (English)
  2. a b TAC: About us . viewed on www.tac.org.za on April 3, 2015
  3. ^ Tina Rosenberg: For People With AIDS, a Government With Two Faces . New York Times report of August 30, 2006 at www.nytimes.com (English)