Debunking Delusions: The Inside Story of the Treatment Action Campaign

Debunking Delusions: The Inside Story of the Treatment Action Campaign
ISBN-10
1770097813
ISBN-13
9781770097810
Category
Medical
Pages
248
Language
English
Published
2010
Publisher
Jacana Media
Author
Nathan Geffen

Description

An insider's view of the state-supported AIDS denial of South African leaders Thabo Mbeki and Manto Shabalala-Msimang, this memoir describes a great triumph of citizen activism. The account begins with the efforts of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) to rouse public alarm over the puzzling intransigence of the government and the lack of drugs for people suffering from untreated AIDS. Finally, this book details how TAC ultimately succeeded on a much larger scale, as the group exposed corrupt doctors Matthias Rath and Zeblon Gwala and publicized the case of patient Andile Madondile, who had been deceived about his medicine.

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