GREGG GONSALVES

Beat It! 2000 Episode 13 - Special Report

Treatment Literacy has become a key focus area not only for the Community Health Media Trust but also for the Treatment Action Campaign. In this the last episode of the 2000 Beat It! series we look at the treatment literacy workshop set up by the TAC and the Treatment Action Group from New York. This specific workshop was empowering people with information around clinical trials.

Media, Method, Message

Media, Method, Message follows the story of Beat It! the worlds first HIV/AIDS magazine programme. Narrated by the shows co-creator and director Jack Lewis, we see how Beat It! worked towards removing the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS and addressed the concerns of real people living with AIDS through documentary inserts and an in studio HIV+ support group.

TAC the first five years

The Treatment Action Campaign “in less than five years of existence moved a nation, shifted government policy and advanced the rights of people with HIV everywhere in the world… TAC’s struggle grows out of the best traditions of the anti-apartheid movement. TAC will be a shining light for citizen action for decades to come.” - Graca Machel, on presenting TAC with the Nelson Mandela, Health and Human Rights Award in 2002.