Senator Barack Obama meets with the Treatment

Action Campaign in Khayelitsha

On the 22^nd of August 2006 Senator Barack Obama, during a tour of Africa, visited South Africa and met with members of the Treatment Action Campaign in Khayelitsha. He also visited Site B Clinic in Khayelitsha were he saw the work that TAC's Treatment Literacy Practitioners do on a daily basis in clinics across the country. During the closed session of their meeting TAC members suggested to Senator Obama that he run for president. Obama took a strong position on preventing and treating HIV/AIDS and was critical of the South African government's response to the epidemic and their disregard and animosity towards the Treatment Action Campaign.