The Treatment Action Campaign's Struggle for AIDS Treatment in South Africa: Coalition-building Through Networks.
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), South Africa's – and probably the world's – most prominent AIDS activist movement, emerged in the context of state-supported AIDS denialism and government resistance to evidence-based responses such as antiretroviral treatment. TAC's forceful campaigns against de...
| Published in: | Journal of Southern African Studies Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 849 - 869 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2011
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