Why we must provide treatment information

Gregg Gonsalves

USA

Treatment literacy when? Now!

It is one thing to learn the doctors’ language, but there is still great resistance to community-based literacy by governments. This is a political struggle. It will be hard. We know that treatment literacy works – there is scientific evidence to say it works. But it will take campaigning and lobbying and struggle to make it a reality.

This web presentation is based on a book with photographs by Wolfgang Tillmans. It follows a global meeting held in Cape Town in 2006 organised by the Treatment Action Campaign, South Africa and i-Base, England.