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
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
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