“I Don’t Want to Live in a World Where People Die Every Day Simply Because They Are Poor”: From the Treatment Action Campaign to Equal Education, from Stories of Human Rights to the Poetics of Inequality

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-491
Author(s):  
Neville Hoad
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Equal Education ◽  
Treatment Action ◽  
Treatment Action Campaign

Republic of South Africa v. Grootboom. Case No. CCT 11/00. 2000 (11) BCLR 1169 and Minister of Health v. Treatment Action Campaign. Case No. CCT 8/02

2003 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. 669-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
David D. Caron ◽  
Joan Fitzpatrick ◽  
Ron C. Slye
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
State Party ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Human Rights Treaties ◽  
Treatment Action ◽  
Treatment Action Campaign

Republic of South Africa v. Grootboom. Case No. CCT 11/00. 2000 (11) BCLR 1169. Constitutional Court of South Africa, October 4, 2000.Minister of Health v. Treatment Action Campaign. Case No. CCT 8/02. At <http://www.concourt.gov.za>.Constitutional Court of South Africa, July 5, 2002.Two cases decided by the Constitutional Court of South Africa in 2000 and 2002 implement several economic, social, and cultural rights guaranteed by the Constitution of South Africa. The decisions illuminate the role in such reasoning of human rights treaties to which South Africa is a state party or a signatory. They also analyze General Comment No. 3 of die UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Committee). These cases, Republic of South Africa v. Grootboom, decided October 4,2000, and Minister of Health v. Treatment Action Campaign, decided July 5, 2002, illuminate questions concerning both die jusdciability of economic, social, and cultural rights—at least as incorporated into Soudi Africa's Bill of Rights, sections 7 through 39 of its Constitution—and the concept of “minimum core obligations” as developed by the Committee.

Appeal to global donors to save the Treatment Action Campaign

The Lancet ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 384 (9959) ◽  
pp. e62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Piot ◽  
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi ◽  
Quarraisha Abdool Karim ◽  
Salim S Abdool Karim ◽  
Chris Beyrer
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Action ◽  
Treatment Action Campaign

The Global HIV/AIDS and LGBT Movements

2019 ◽  
pp. 300-313
Author(s):  
Jeremy Youde
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
The United States ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Reciprocal Relationships ◽  
Aids Epidemic ◽  
Treatment Action ◽  
Treatment Action Campaign ◽  
Act Up ◽  
Hiv Aids

A reciprocal relationship exists between HIV/AIDS and LGBT organizing, both historically and in the current era. This chapter analyses the dynamics of the interconnection between these movements since the first description of the disease we now know as AIDS appeared in 1981. It begins by describing the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and how the first organizations dedicated to HIV/AIDS emerged out of and drew inspiration from LGBT groups. It then looks at the specific cases of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and how both groups linked their activism strategies to previous LGBT organizing experiences in the United States and South Africa, respectively. The chapter then examines the reciprocal relationships between the domestic and international levels in HIV/AIDS and LGBT politics. Finally, it explores the tensions between the HIV/AIDS and LGBT movements and the lines of division within the HIV/AIDS movement itself.

‘I Don’t Want to Hear’

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isak Niehaus
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Antiretroviral Medication ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
Hiv Antibodies ◽  
Treatment Action ◽  
Treatment Action Campaign ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Prominent Response

In recent years confessional technologies have become an important means of confronting the HIV/AIDS pandemic. These include ‘coming out’ with HIV positivity, and providing public testimony about sickness and the transformative effects of antiretroviral medication. In South Africa, the urban-based Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has effectively deployed speech as a means of overcoming pathos. Drawing upon ongoing fieldwork in Bushbuckridge, I point to various forms of resistance against the imported cosmopolitan practice of confession, and show how silence is frequently a more prominent response to the pandemic. Residents of Bushbuckridge have refrained from undergoing testing for HIV antibodies and hardly ever speak about their condition in public domains. I argue that silence was not merely a means of avoiding stigma, but also reflected a fear of hearing potentially dangerous and deadly words. In local knowledge, pronouncements that one is ‘HIV-positive’ could crystallise sickness, invoke negative emotions associated with pending death, and thereby worsen suffering.

Is a New Worldwide Web Possible? An Explorative Comparison of the Use of ICTs by Two South African Social Movements

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herman Wasserman
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
New Media ◽  
South African ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Treatment Action ◽  
Treatment Action Campaign ◽  
Worldwide Web ◽  
Information And Communication

Abstract:In this article the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), especially new media technologies such as e-mail and the Internet, by postapartheid South African social movements is explored. Following a discussion of the use of these technologies by activist groupings in international contexts, a typology suggested by Rheingold (2003) is used as a framework for comparing two South African social movements: the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and the Anti-Privatization Forum (APF).

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