New Yorker Profiles Zackie Achmat, Head of South Africa’s Treatment Action Campaign
The May 19 issue of the New Yorker profiles South African AIDS advocate Zackie Achmat, co-founder of the Treatment Action Campaign. Achmat, who was diagnosed with HIV in 1990, five years ago said he would not take antiretroviral medications until the South African government makes the medications available to all HIV-positive South Africans (Power, New Yorker, 5/13).
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