CCS Seminar: Empowering Communities to Self-Mobilise: The TAC Method Speaker: Mzamo Zondi Date: Wednesday 27 February 2019 Time: 13:00-14:00 Venue: CCS Seminar Room A726, Level 7, Shepstone, Howard College, UKZN Topic The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has led a number of successful campaigns impacting on healthcare in South Africa. These include the struggle for HIV/AIDS treatment in the public health sector and the democratisation of medication provision during the antiretroviral treatment roll-out. Community mobilisation has been critical in these campaigns and have included participation from the most marginalised as well as relatively affluent and confident groups with strong pre-existing identities. However, the various victories have not yet led to sustainable health-enhancing social change. There is an urgent need therefore to revisit the wider ‘theory of change’ that informs mobilisation efforts. What forms of community mobilisation are most likely to advance social change towards more equal and health-enabling social relations? This is the topic of this seminar. Speaker Bio Mzamo Zondi is a former Community Relations, Communications and Mobilisation team leader at the Human Sciences Research Council. He currently serves as provincial manager for the TAC KwaZulu-Natal and is also a community scholar at the Centre for Civil Society University of KwaZulu-Natal.  Back

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