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I think the fact that people don't know about my politics, my love, my understanding of culture, and everything other than HIV and sometimes queerness, is for me like, oh, come off it. I'm much more than an HIV-positive t-shirt.

— Zackie Achmat

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Everything I know about justice,” comes from the people who raised me.

In South Africa and in countless other countries, we have been working for more than a decade to ensure HIV treatment access.

There is a crisis of prevention in this country.

Hope is passive; resolve is active. That’s why I believe in resolve, not hope.

We are saying he should be arrested under the Medicines Act.

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