Zackie Achmat
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"Abdurrazack" ""Zackie"" "Achmat" is a South African activist and film director. He is a co-founder the Treatment Action Campaign and known worldwide for his activism on behalf of people living with HIV and AIDS in South Africa. He currently serves as Board member and Co-director of Ndifuna Ukwazi (Dare to Know), an organisation which aims to build and support social justice organisations and leaders, and is the Chairperson of Equal Education.

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In South Africa and in countless other countries, we have been working for more than a decade to ensure HIV treatment access.

We don't want our men to go to the chop shop, but have medical circumcision.

If candidates do not support testing for HIV or Aids, don't vote for them. If candidates don't support the use of condoms, don't vote for them.

We are saying he should be arrested under the Medicines Act.

There is a crisis of prevention in this country.

There is a crisis of prevention in this country. There are 1,400 new infections every day. That must stop.