Why we must provide treatment information

Sipho Mthathi

South Africa

Traditional medicines have been used for a long time and people see that they work to take away symptoms, but they are being used poliitically to divert attention from ARVs. In TAC we have struggled internally about the role of traditional medicine. Research on traditional medicines has not been funded. Traditional medicines have not been researched and validated the way ARVs have. But they are being used by politicians to undermine choice.

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.