Who is this person

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Who is this person?

• South Africa's most prominent AIDS activist
• Born Abdurazzack Achmat in March 21 1962,
  Johannesburg

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The main challenges he faced

• Schoolboy in the 1970s in a segregated Cape Town
  township caught up in the violent student
  campaign against apartheid. He helped to set fire
  to his own school and was arrested and detained
  five times. incompleted high school
• For 10 years he operated as an underground
  activist for the banned African National
  Congress, evading the secret police and
  organising youth resistance groups."
• "The disease was regarded as taboo"

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His achievements include

• Series of NGOs providing educational support to
  disadvantaged youth, skills training for school
  leavers and in the health sector.
• Foundation of TAC (Treatmnet Action Campaign),
  the most well-known and successful AIDS activist
  group in South Africa
• Initiated the National Coalition for Gay and
  Lesbian Equality
• Lobby for allowing the production and import of
  generic drugs for HIV/AIDS.

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Also, did you know that

• Achmat publicly refused to take AIDS medications
  until all who needed them had access to them
• On August 18, 2006, Achmat was one of 44 TAC
  activists arrested for occupying provincial
  government offices in Cape Town
• Without a campaign that makes treatment available
  to all, 5 to 6 million South Africans will die of
  AIDS by 2010.
• Married to Dallie Weyers, his fellow activist

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And finally!

• 2001 Desmond Tutu Leadership Award
• 2003 Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and
  Human Rights
• 2003 Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human
  Rights
• 2004 being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize