In the Face of Crisis: The Treatment Action Campaign Fights Government Inertia with Budget Advocacy and Litigation

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Overy
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Action ◽  
Treatment Action Campaign ◽  
The Face

The human right to health and the struggle for recognition

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 569-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
PATRICK HAYDEN
Keyword(s):  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
World Health ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Treatment Action Campaign ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Right ◽  
Struggle For Recognition

AbstractPersistent health inequalities exist globally, affecting high-income countries and blighting the developing world. Health inequalities currently are one of the greatest challenges facing realisation of the human right to health. This article argues that the struggle for the right to health in the face of such inequalities requires embracing three critical considerations: redistribution, representation, and recognition. While the analysis of the right to health has been formulated predominantly around theories of distributive justice, I suggest that a more normatively compelling account will link the politics of economic redistribution to the politics of sociocultural recognition. A recognition approach, which views rights claims as grounded on the vulnerability of the human condition, can show how rights are emergent in political action and that the ability to claim and exercise the human right to health is contingent upon recognition of diverse sociopolitical statuses. From this perspective, there are no ‘neutral’ constructions of the rights-bearing subject and conflict between different political framings of the right to health is a consequence of the struggle for recognition. This theme is illustrated by comparing conservative, affirmative, and transformative processes of recognition in the struggle for access to essential antiretroviral medicines by South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign.

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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