Welcome to Friends of the Treatment Action Campaign.
Friends of the Treatment Action Campaign (FOTAC) is a UK based charity Campaigning for the rights of people with HIV and AIDS, and fundraising for treatment and treatment programmes.
As our name says, we support and work with the Treatment Action Campaign - TAC . TAC is South Africa's largest grass-roots organisation campaigning for greater access to HIV treatment for all, and for the empowerment of people affected by HIV and AIDS.
FOTAC also raises awareness in the UK about the HIV and AIDS crisis in southern Africa. We work with all sectors, including schools, colleges, businesses, unions, NGOs, other HIV and AIDS organisations and networks, and media.
FOTAC fundraising ranges from regular individual donations to major grants funded programmes, such as the FOTAC/TAC Treatment Programme in Mpumalanga Province, funded by Comic Relief.
Our FOTAC UK patron Annie Lennox has teamed up with 23 of the world's most acclaimed female superstar voices, and the Treatment Action Campaign choir, for the charity record SING, to raise money and awareness for TAC. For more information, to hear the music, or get involved in the SING campaign visit our videos and http://www.annielennoxsing.com/sing.php Annie Lennox SING.
Our Honorary Patrons are Arbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and TAC Chairperson Zackie Achmat.
As well as Annie Lennox, FOTAC's patrons include Wolfgang Tilmans, Glenys Kinnock, Gillian Slovo, Ann Grant, Shula Marks, Jeanette Winterson, Sharleen Spiteri, Anthony Sher and Gillian Anderson.
FOTAC News
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
Imagine a book written by some of the best fiction writers in the world: Margaret Atwood, Woody Allen, Gunter Grass, Arthur Miller, Gabrielle Garcia Marquez, Susan Sontag, John Updike... What if that book were edited by Nobel Prize winner, Nadine Gordimer?
