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	Zackie Achmat \| Ashoka.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Zackie Achmat is spearheading a grassroots social initiative to provide affordable AIDS medicines to the public in a way that will not only staunch the epidemic's growth but also transform the public health system and enable communities to counter the host of other social challenges they are facing.
		Zackie is championing the development of a grassroots social movement, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), to demand that the state fulfill its constitutional obligation of guaranteeing a right to life to all citizens by providing affordable AIDS medications.
		Zackie's work on access to HIV medicines for treatment proceeds from the stark reality that poor people, who are the largest demographic in the country, have least access to life-extending medication because of high costs and limited availability.
	www.ashoka.org /node/2460 (1665 words)

	Zackie Achmat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zackie Achmat (born Abdurazzack Achmat in 1962) is a South African activist, most widely known as founder and chairman of Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).
		Achmat grew up in the so-called "Coloured" community in Cape Town during apartheid, in a Cape Malay Muslim family (though his father was technically of Indian extraction, tracing his roots to Gujarat).
		Achmat respectfully refused Mr Mandela, and held firm in his pledge until August 2003 when a national congress of TAC activists voted to urge him to begin taking his medicines; he announced that he would start shortly before the government announced that it would make antiretrovirals available in the public sector.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zackie_Achmat (900 words)

	blog.myspace.com/jmullally1
		Zackie Achmat was raised in a conservative Muslim family but when he was 14 years old he left home, burnt down his school and, for a brief while, sold his body for sex.
		Achmat, born in 1962, evokes similar admiration outside his country and is recognised by Aids campaigners everywhere as an emblem of the global fight against a disease that affects 39.5 million people, according to the latest UN figures - 4.3 million more than at the end of 2005.
		Achmat ends our four-hour encounter on a hopeful note, however, as befits a time when he appears to be on the threshold of a famous victory, of helping reverse the policies that have made South Africa such an Aids basket case, such a shameful example to the world.
	blog.myspace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=7509601&blogID=200503807 (1878 words)

	Q-online - News: Zackie Achmat risks all (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		IV/Aids activist Zackie Achmat is no stranger to struggle — but he has come face to face with one of his biggest challenges: to take the drugs that can keep him healthy, or to put his life at risk because of his moral convictions.
		Achmat is being treated for opportunistic infections and doctors are trying to keep him as healthy as possible.
		Achmat says he is not a martyr nor does he want to die.
	www.q.co.za /2001/2002/07/12-zackie.html (950 words)

	Biography of Adurrazack (Zackie) Achmat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Borne in Johannesburg, Zackie Achmat was raised in a Muslim community in Cape Town.
		Zackie initiated the National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality and, as its director, successfully saw through campaigns to ensure the retention of the clause prohibiting discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation in the Bill of Rights.
		It's My Life: Zackie Achmat, a leading AIDS activist in South Africa, has refused to take anti-retroviral medicines until they are made available by the government in public hospitals and clinics.
	www.frif.com /new2002/mlife2.html (662 words)

	iafrica.com \| aidswise \| features Taking time out with the activist
		Zackie also says that there was a certain former presidential spokesperson who had died of an Aids-related illness, and that there were high-powered individuals, including a few working within the government, and middle-class people, who are infected with HIV.
		Zackie says that the TAC does encourage healthy, balanced eating as a given, but he says the Tshabalala-Msimang is misusing the importance of nutrition in an attempt to replace the need for ARV drugs with traditional African remedies.
		Zackie won much support for his cause when he made the decision to abstain from ARV drugs, even though it was available to him, until all HIV/Aids patients had access to them.
	www.iafrica.com /pls/cms/iac.page?p_t1=522&p_t2=1550&p_t3=0&p_t4=0&p_dynamic=YP&p_content_id=305247&p_site_id=2 (1306 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Achmat, Zackie
		Born Abdurrazack Achmat in Johannesburg, on March 21, 1962, "Zackie" was raised in a conservative Muslim household by his mother and aunt in Salt River, an area of Cape Town.
		Achmat was one of the founders of the National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality in 1994, which advocated for gay rights in the new constitution.
		Achmat even shipped enough AIDS drugs from Thailand to treat 700 sufferers, to make the point that generics were available at a fraction of the quoted cost.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/achmat_z.html (1121 words)

	Untitled Document
		Achmat, their champion, is HIV-positive but refuses to take anti-Aids drugs - although he can afford them - until they are available to his compatriots.
		Achmat, 41, took on the multinationals, forcing them to reduce their prices, and has worn down the government's resistance through a campaign of civil disobedience and international demonstrations.
		Achmat's career as a political activist started at 14 when he tried to burn his school down.He was arrested and turned 15 in prison.
	www.artic.edu /~pelitz/classes/1004/1004resources/samples/Zackie.html (1363 words)

	Guardian \| A good man in Africa
		Zackie Achmat is not hungry, but tucks into the chocolate cake just the same.
		Achmat is not a shanty dweller unable to afford the drugs; he is not a so-called "Aids dissident" who believes the drugs are poison; he is not mad, and he is not suicidal.
		Zackie Achmat, according to Nelson Mandela, is a national hero: an ordinary man whose extraordinary resolve could help save thousands of African lives, at the cost of his own.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4564342-103409,00.html (1417 words)

	Current Biography International Yearbook 2002 — Sample Profile
		One aspect of Achmat's childhood that drew him to activist causes was his interaction with his grandmother, who favored the lighter-skinned siblings in his family to the darker ones.
		Achmat, who had already gained a reputation as a loyal but unruly ANC member, met with the government's health minister, Nkosazana Zuma, in May 1999; afterwards, Zuma announced her intention to reinstate the policy of allowing all HIV-positive pregnant women access to preventive drugs.
		Achmat handed himself in to the local police, but he was never arrested for the crime: after many doctors supported TAC's actions and announced their willingness to distribute the drug, the MCC announced that they were granting TAC an exemption from a drug trafficking law for importing Biozole.
	www.hwwilson.com /Print/cbintl2003_zachie_biography.htm (2972 words)

	SABCnews.com - south_africa/health
		After interviewing Zackie Achmat for over two hours, you are left with a sense of only having scratched the surface.
		Achmat, a schoolboy at Salt River High, and two friends decided to pledge their solidarity with the African children up north by burning down their school.
		Achmat says he was drawn to politics by personal experiences: "I think it was definitely for me the consequence of family violence and seeing inequity in relationships in the family.
	www.sabcnews.com /south_africa/health/0,2172,6703,00.html (1435 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news Concern over Zackie Achmat's health
		Achmat who has been ailing for sometime has cancelled trips to address the plenary session on Wednesday because it is feared he has tuberculosis, a life threatening opportunistic infection of HIV/Aids.
		Achmat is due to speak to the conference on "Treatment access as a human right" and conference organisers have already organised a live satellite link up for his address.
		Achmat who left home at the age of 12 to fight actively against apartheid, was jailed on a number of occasions for anti-apartheid activities.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/993087.htm (395 words)

	USATODAY.com - HIV-infected activist abandons pledge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Zackie Achmat, who has been HIV-positive for years, accused President Thabo Mbeki and other officials of not caring about the lives of those infected with the virus that causes AIDS.
		Achmat, head of the Treatment Action Campaign, will begin taking cheap, generic versions of AIDS drugs as soon as he gets the appropriate medical tests, Nathan Geffen, a TAC spokesman, told The Associated Press.
		Achmat's protest — refusing to take the medicine until the government provided it to poor South Africans — attracted worldwide attention and put a human face on the pain caused by the government's often criticized AIDS policy.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2003-08-04-aids-promise_x.htm (729 words)

	Global Health Council - Global Health News from around the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Achmat, 40, is South Africa's most prominent AIDS activist, and chairman of the Treatment Action Campaign.
		Achmat said in a telephone interview from his Cape Town home.
		Achmat's decision, which was not known to the public until last year, when journalists began to ask why he was so sick, has gripped a country disillusioned with its all-too-human leadership.
	www.globalhealth.org /news/printview-news.php3?id=2712 (247 words)

	The Body: Interview With Zackie Achmat, South African AIDS Activist
		Zackie Achmat: Well, our cabinet took it upon itself to reverse a policy of no treatment last year in August and finally with the operational plan in November.
		Now that speaks to us of a commitment of government, both resources have been committed, billions of rands* have been committed to ensure that people are treated, that there's prevention, that there's nutrition in a comprehensive way.
		Zackie Achmat: I would define as success if the Secretary General of the United Nations commits to keeping governments accountable to Ungess and to Abuja.
	www.thebody.com /kaiser/achmat_interview.html?m60o (1345 words)

	AEGiS-LT: S. African AIDS activist makes a striking impact: Zackie Achmat inspires L.A. audiences and celebrates a ...
		Achmat represents a huge social movement in South Africa: Members of the Treatment Action Campaign, which he co-founded five years ago, have collectively cajoled, protested, heckled, mocked, shamed and even serenaded the government in their effort to get anti-retroviral medication for all HIV-infected South Africans.
		It was Achmat's medical strike that lent him the moral gravitas to make him the movement's figurehead, because he showed he was willing to share the lot of his countrymen and share their struggle with AIDS-related illnesses.
		Achmat rolls his eyes and indulges in a little fun at the interviewer's expense, launching into more detail than the interviewer might want to know about Achmat's romantic life with his boyfriend.
	www.aegis.com /news/Lt/2003/LT031104.html (1631 words)

	MSF Around the World
		Zackie Achmat is an AIDS activist in South Africa who is the leader of the South African NGO 'Treatment Action Campaign' (TAC) as well as one of the key persons working alongside MSF in the development of treatment for people with AIDS in South Africa.
		Achmat's decision, which was not known to the public until last year, when journalists began to ask why he was so sick, has gripped a country disillusioned with its all-too-human leadership.
		Achmat was jailed in the 1970s, and spent the 1980s living underground as an ANC activist.
	www.msf.org /msfinternational/invoke.cfm?component=article&objectid=1DC3652E-A707-4F1F-BCF46FCED37A160A&method=full_html (782 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Internationally-known activist Zackie Achmat is a founder of South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) established in 1998 to mobilize national support for access to treatment by people living with HIV/AIDS.
		Zackie Achmat and his Treatment Action Campaign colleagues began a campaign to persuade the South African government to make drug therapies accessible to South Africans with HIV who rely on public health care.
		Zackie had refused treatment for his HIV disease until a commitment to provide treatment for other South Africans with HIV/AIDS was secured from the South African government this past summer.
	www.bapd.org /n3628.html (280 words)

	Zackie Achmat, TIME hero - SouthAfrica.info
		Aids activist Zackie Achmat continues to receive accolades in the international community for his struggle to get antiretroviral drugs administered free to HIV/Aids sufferers.
		Achmat, who is gay and who has openly championed gay rights, took on his new struggle when he found out he was HIV-positive.
		In the meantime, Achmat won't give up his struggle until he sees poor people who are Aids sufferers get the life-saving treatment he believes they have a right to.
	www.safrica.info /what_happening/news/features/achmataccolade.htm (643 words)

	It's My Life
		Story Line: Zackie Achmat is the HIV-positive chairperson of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).
		Zackie has decided not to take medicine for his condition until the government makes them available to the people of South Africa.
		Seeing Zackie Achmat, a man of color, and fls as regular citizens protesting poor public policy is strangely provocative rather than witnessing them being shot at, beaten or jailed (as a general rule).
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /2002/id1942.htm (439 words)

	Harvard University IOP: Events & Programs: Calendar of Events
		Achmat's message, he says, "is not about being proud to come out and admit that the disease is with us.
		To have AIDS was a death sentence." Achmat began working with voluntary community organizations concerned with the growing AIDS crisis in their midst; in 1998, he co-founded the TAC.
		Achmat's energies are now focused on getting the government to finalize a long-delayed national treatment strategy.
	ksgnotes1.harvard.edu /calendars/iop.nsf/event.html?readform&id=A18B54DD75DF79A38525713F005E9A34 (652 words)

	GMax - HEALTH: Zackie Achmat is recovering well from heart attack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Zackie Achmat, the TAC (Treatment Action Campaign) chairperson, had a heart attack on Thursday 24 March, but he is recovering well.
		Achmat has been working long hours without a break under high stress for the last month on both TAC work and the COSATU Save Jobs Coalition.
		Achmat's doctor, Steve Andrews said "Zackie is receiving excellent medical care and is expected to recover with rest and an adequate rehabilitation programme."
	www.gmax.co.za /think/health/2005/050330-zachmat.html (136 words)

	South African AIDS Activist Zackie Achmat \| TIME
		Zackie Achmat is a dangerous man — to those he sees as perpetrators of injustice.
		And so it was back to protest politics for Zackie Achmat and thousands like him, who realized that their survival depended on access to the anti-retrovirals and other drugs that had kept alive tens of thousands of AIDS patients in the industrialized world.
		Achmat soon found himself heading up the Treatment Action Group, organizing sit-ins and marches among the government's own constituency to demand treatment through a public health system that was sending AIDS patients home to die.
	www.time.com /time/pow/article/0,8599,106995,00.html (1299 words)

	HIV-Aids - Zackie Achmat carries the torch for hundreds of thousands
		Achmat and the TAC are also waiting for the government's response to their demand for an emergency plan to address the Aids crisis.
		Achmat says that almost two years ago he set time aside to get ready to die, but with his good health and his passion for what he is doing, he now wants to help the government address issues he believes are crippling the country's growth.
		Achmat says he came from a generation of children who burnt their schools down because they wanted a decent education.
	www.iolhivaids.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=&fArticleId=3416206 (757 words)

	P.O.V. - State of Denial . "The AIDS Rebel" \| PBS
		Achmat pointed to a "Wanted" poster that had been plastered to a nearby telephone pole by TAC supporters.
		Achmat, who was appalled by the treatment of fl workers at his mother's factory, quickly became a radical himself.
		Achmat was poised to celebrate when, after a routine doctor's examination, he learned that he had H.I.V. "First, I went into denial," he said.
	www.pbs.org /pov/pov2003/stateofdenial/special_rebel.html (2413 words)

	Zackie Achmat, TIME hero - SouthAfrica.info
		Ironically, Achmat's latest struggle frequently pits him against the government he fought to put in place, although he insists he is still a loyal member of the ANC.
		Achmat, who is gay and who has openly championed gay rights, took on his new struggle when he found out he was HIV-positive.
		In the meantime, Achmat won't give up his struggle until he sees poor people who are Aids sufferers get the life-saving treatment he believes they have a right to.
	www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/demographics/achmataccolade.htm (652 words)

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