The Treatment Action Campaign and the Three Dimensions of Lawyering: Reflections from the Rainbow Nation

Hassan Ahmad, “The Treatment Action Campaign and the Three Dimensions of Lawyering: Reflections from the Rainbow Nation” 9 J Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, 2010

26 Pages Posted: 3 Dec 2010 Last revised: 25 Jul 2016

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Hassan Ahmad

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Peter A. Allard School of Law

Date Written: December 6, 2010

Abstract

The Treatment Action Campaign’s (TAC) activism over the past decade within post-apartheid South African society has served as a successful example of the promotion of social change in order to combat the HIV epidemic. In this paper, I analyze TAC’s advocacy methods in light of Lucie White’s three dimensions of lawyering and advocate that TAC has fulfilled all three dimensions in promoting a new form of participatory citizenship centred on grassroots activism and self-empowerment.

Keywords: South Africa, Treatment Action Campaign, Cause Lawyering, Social Change, HIV, Activism

Suggested Citation

Ahmad, Hassan, The Treatment Action Campaign and the Three Dimensions of Lawyering: Reflections from the Rainbow Nation (December 6, 2010). Hassan Ahmad, “The Treatment Action Campaign and the Three Dimensions of Lawyering: Reflections from the Rainbow Nation” 9 J Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, 2010, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1718950 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1718950

Hassan Ahmad (Contact Author)

University of British Columbia (UBC) - Peter A. Allard School of Law ( email )

Canada

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