HIV and AIDS activism in Africa
POSTERITY - "At the just-concluded 2018 Partners Forum that held from February 13 -15, 2018 at the Crowne Plaza, Johannesburg, South Africa, participants were taken through an Advocacy 001 class. The lecture sounded very much like what advocacy should be – planned, with timelines and targets, adequately funded with measureable targets. Sadly, the history of HIV and AIDS activism in Africa was not such structured campaigns.
HIV and AIDS activism evolved out of a desperate need to save lives. Usually, activists were challenging the draconic actions of big corporations and their own governments. A good case study for AIDS activism in Africa is the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) in South Africa." (Photo: Bad patents kill - TAC protest/Louis Reynolds/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)