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Article: Activist brings 'A' game to cause: Tactics akin to those used in battle against apartheid help change S. Africa's approach to treating AIDS patients.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- January 29, 2006
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Byline: Laurie Goering
Jan. 29--JOHANNESBURG -- Zackie Achmat is on his way to the gym where he exercises at least three days a week. South Africa's leading AIDS treatment campaigner has never looked better, never felt better. At 43, he has started a new relationship. He has adopted a dog. He's even thinking of adopting children. "I'm seriously considering it if I become responsible," he laughs gently. It's a dramatic change from 21/2 years ago, when the virus in Achmat's blood was slowly killing him. At the time, he suffered a new opportunistic HIV-related infection nearly every week and lived on antibiotics and painkillers. The once-voracious reader ...
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