Browsing by Subject "Treatment Action Campaign"

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    Is the Treatment Action Campaign effective? A literature review.
    (2008) Oshry, Nadia
    In their book How Social Movements Matter (1999), Tarrow, Giugni, McAdam, and Tilly, argue that it is of utmost importance to understand the effectiveness of social movements, since their core function is to bring about processes of social and political change. Analysts of social movements have begun to examine both the intended and unintended consequences of movement activity. However, the impact and effectiveness of social movements still constitute a relatively neglected area of academic inquiry. This literature review will reveal that such criticism is also applicable to the literature on the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). Whilst this question is beyond the scope of this review, it is possible that the source of the weaknesses within the literature on TAC may stem from the controversies and deficiencies existing within the broader social movement literature.
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    Peer educators’ responses to mistrust and confusion about HIV and AIDS science in Khayelitsha, South Africa
    (2014-08-30) Rubincam, Clara
    Peer educators are on the front lines of communication between sources of scientific authority about HIV and AIDS and target populations. This study focuses on a group of peer educators from the Treatment Action Campaign working in Khayelitsha, South Africa (n=20), highlighting perceptions of their treatment literacy activities and the challenges faced in these encounters. In order to maintain clients’ trust in themselves and their information about HIV, they employ various “rhetorics of persuasion”, including accurate mobilisation of biomedical facts, personal testimonies, and figurative language such as parables and metaphors. These tactics build on community members’ everyday observations and experiences and draw from peer educators’ own credibility and trustworthiness as TAC members, and as members of the community. This paper draws attention to the ways in which peer educators’ personal agency and judgement are brought to the task of peer education, as well as the implications for future programmes using treatment literacy to advocate on behalf of biomedical facts about HIV and AIDS.