Why we must provide treatment information

Sostain Moyo

Zimbabwe

The field of medicine is highly protected in my country. For example, we have nurses who are trained to do rapid HIV testing, but the lab workers don’t allow anyone else to perform the rapid tests, so not enough tests are done.

If we take up the TAC model of adherence practitioners in the hospitals, they will protest that only medical people can offer treatment information and counselling. How did others overcome that protected discipline?

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.