About Us - Friends of the Treatment Action Campaign.
FoTAC, or Friends of the Treatment Action Campaign, is a UK-based charity working for access to affordable treatment for people living with HIV and to reduce new HIV infections. We support and work closely with the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) - South Africa's largest grass roots organisation campaigning for greater access to HIV treatment for all. Since 1998, TAC's work has resulted in nationwide life-saving interventions in South Africa, including the implementation of country-wide mother-to-child transmission prevention and antiretroviral treatment programmes.
A large part of FOTAC UK's work is focused on supporting TAC's national treatment literacy campaign: a training programme on the science of HIV treatment and prevention. FOTAC UK fundraising is now supporting a major Treatment Literacy Project in Mpumalanga Province in South Africa, through which many people have received treatment literacy training and gained access to life-saving treatment.
FOTAC UK also coordinates international support for TAC's campaigns in South Africa, raising awareness of the key issues, health policies and political developments - and crises - in all matters relating to HIV and AIDS.
FOTAC also educates people in the UK about HIV and AIDS crisis in southern Africa, working particularly with schools, colleges, businesses and trade unions.
Fundraising is also our major task.
TAC: The first 5 years
Find out about our history by watching this 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, which has held its own government and big pharmaceutical companies accountable to the interests of the South African people.
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Support Us - Get the T-Shirt
We're pleased to unveil our new T-shirt design, which raises the profile of FOTAC's role in the fight against HIV.
Support Us - Get the Book
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