« The Wrath of Rath | Main | CAFTA to the House »
July 01, 2005
Giving to the TAC
President Bush has redoubled American efforts to confront and roll back AIDS in Africa. It is a start. Sometimes the issue is not condoms vs. abstinence or even the simple distribution of medicine. Sometimes the issue is getting people to take the medicine.
In South Africa a vitamin huckster, backed by the government, is encouraging AIDS patients not to take antiretroviral medication and instead to take multivitamins. The health minister, for her part, recommend garlic to boot.
The Treatment Action Coalition (TAC) is the foremost civic group opposing the South African government's two-faced ARV policy (the health ministry not only discredits antiretrovirals, it distributes them).
The Bush administration's AIDS dollar do not support the TAC> This is a shame, since the TAC's success would do wonders for the 5.3 million South Africans living with HIV.
Democrats can still support the TAC by donating through the South African Development Fund on the Network for Good website. Enter "TAC" in the "designation" field.
Posted by James Fichter at July 1, 2005 11:24 AM
