Video that presents some insight into the politics and reality of the South African response to HIV/AIDS. The video follows the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), an HIV/AIDS advocacy organization founded in 1998, which has held its own government and big pharmaceutical companies accountable to the interests of the South African people. The video covers the time period from 1998-2005 and is 27 minutes long. For more info about TAC, see their website: http://www.tac.org.za/ Video by the Community Health Media Trust. CHMT runs a South African TV series about HIV, that is called "Siyayinqoba Beat It!" http://www.beatit.co.za Sorry about the poor quality of the ripped and compressed DVD (not CHMT's fault). Updated Statistics on South Africa: * 900-1000 deaths from AIDS a day * over 1,000 HIV infections a day * 5.5 million people living with HIV/AIDS (of 48 million South Africans). To subscribe to the TAC e-Newsletter (issued around once every other week), e-mail: news-subscribe@tac.org.za ---- Treatment Action Campaign “in less than five years of existence moved a nation, shifted government policy and advanced the rights of people with HIV everywhere in the world… TAC’s struggle grows out of the best traditions of the anti-apartheid movement. TAC will be a shining light for citizen action for decades to come.” - Graca Machel, on presenting TAC with the Nelson Mandela, Health and Human Rights Award in 2002 ------- “There is simply no other group on the planet that so indomitably fought the fight against the virus, with such principled commitment, such ingenuity, such tenacity, and such success. TAC is revered by People Living With AIDS throughout the world.” - Stephen Lewis, UN Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Africa, 7 November, 2005