{"id":2879,"date":"2022-07-08T23:46:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T23:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/07\/08\/the-aids-activists-who-took-on-big-pharma-in-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2022-07-08T23:46:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T23:46:24","slug":"the-aids-activists-who-took-on-big-pharma-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=2879","title":{"rendered":"The Aids activists who took on big pharma in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In the late 1990s cases of HIV\/Aids soared in South Africa. By 1998 almost 3 million people were infected, and Aids was the country\u2019s leading cause of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Yet anti-retroviral drugs were too expensive for all but the richest South Africans.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Activists began a long campaign for the right to import and use cheaper versions of the vital drugs.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Witness History spoke to Mark Heywood, one of the founders of the \u2018Treatment Action Campaign\u2019 about taking on both the major pharmaceutical companies and the South African government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p004t1hd\/clips\" class=\"ssrcss-moz6zf-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Witness History<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">: The stories of our times told by the people who were there.  <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/stories-62036533?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In the late 1990s cases of HIV\/Aids soared in South Africa. By 1998 almost 3 million people were infected, and Aids was the country\u2019s leading cause of death. Yet &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}