Useful Links
These are links to some useful websites relating to HIV and AIDS, particularly in South Africa.
FOTAC are not responsible for the content or maintenance of external websites.
If you have links that you think would be useful for our links page please send us an email with the links via our enquiries form.
AEGIS
This huge website, possibly the largest one dedicated to HIV, contains an enormous amount of information. It is updated very often; according to the site, every hour.
AIDS Info
The AIDS Law Project uses legal action to rectify human rights abuses against people with HIV. They are also TAC's lawyers. Both organisations work closely together.
AIDS Law Project
The AIDS Law Project uses legal action to rectify human rights abuses against people with HIV. They are also TAC's lawyers. Both organisations work closely together.
Annie Lennox - SING Campaign
Annie Lennox has teamed up with 23 of the worlds most acclaimed female superstar voices for the charity record sing, to raise money and awareness for the HIV/AIDS organisation, Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). the original track, already available to download through all online retailers; will be accompanied by special remixes available from Saturday 1st December - world aids day. The track is taken from Annie's new album songs of mass destruction released this week.
Comic Relief
Get involved with The Big One for Red Nose day and help create a world free from poverty and support Comic Relief.
Department for International Development UK - DFID
The British department responsible for governmental international aid.
FOTAC-SA : Friends of TAC in South Africa
Friends of the Treatment Action Campaign South Africa (FoTAC-SA), is a new initiative whereby fellow South Africans can support TAC's work. Supported by Patrons Pieter-Dirk Uys, Zapiro, Nadine Gordimer, Zola, Josh Hawks and Tina Schouw, FoTAC-SA launched in Johannesburg and Cape Town in October 2006 and has already built a good membership base. Members of FoTAC-SA can support TAC in various ways, please view the FoTAC-SA pamphlet for more information. FoTAC-SA was launched in Durban and East London in early 2007, please contact the FoTAC-SA Coordinator, Veronica Shumane, for any more information. Tel: 021 788 3507 veronica@tac.org.za
Gay Men's Health Crisis
The US-based Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) is a not-for-profit, volunteer-supported and community-based organization committed to national leadership in the fight against AIDS.
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB & Malaria
The worldwide project to stamp out these three killer diseases.
Global Network of People Living with HIV/ AIDS
A global advocacy and support organisation.
Health Global Access Project Coalition
Campaigns for corporations, governments and others to dismantle the barriers to treatment access caused by exorbitant pricing, abuse of patent privileges and unfair trade regulations.
HIV treatment information for healthcare professionals and HIV-positive people.
HIV i-Base is a treatment activist group, HIV-positive led and committed to providing timely HIV treatment information both to positive people and to health care professionals. i-Base was formed in April 2000 by the former publications, editorial and meetings team from the AIDS Treatment Project.
» Visit: HIV treatment information for healthcare professionals and HIV-positive people.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders)
MSF are committed to providing medical aid wherever it’s needed and raising awareness of the plight of the people they help. Winners of the 1999 Nobel peace prize. MSF work closely with TAC on treatment access issues. In particular, they run the South African pilot mother-to-child transmission prevention program in Khayalitsha, Cape Town.
NIH: Focus on the HIV-AIDS Connection
This site contains extensive documentation demonstrating beyond any reasonable scientific doubt that HIV causes AIDS.
No Days Off - Wolfgang Tilmans
Wolfgang Tillmans went along to a Treatment Action Campaign meeting in South Africa to document the activities of the people teaching 'treatment literacy'. This book is the result; a combintion of beautiful portraits and informative testimonies from people trying to deal with with the spread of HIV and AIDS in developing countries. For more information, please visit www.tac.org.za
PATAM
The Pan-African Treatment Access Movement: PATAM is a social movement comprised of individuals and organisations dedicated to mobilizing communities, political leaders, and all sectors of society to ensure access to antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, as a fundamental part of comprehensive care for all people with HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Stop AIDS Campaign
A UK-based campaigning group of NGOs, fighting for access to care and treatment across the globe. FOTAC is a member of the Stop AIDS Campaign.
Treatment Action Campaign
The home page of South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign. Here you'll find the latest news on TAC's campaigns and work throughout South Africa.
UK Consortium on AIDS & International Development
A group of more than 70 UK-based organisations, working together to understand and develop effective approaches to the problems created by the HIV epidemic in developing countries. FOTAC is a member of the UK Consortium.
UNAIDS
The UN body working to fight the HIV/ AIDS epidemic. Here you’ll find information specifically about South Africa. Follow their links for the bigger picture.
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