The power of a story

I just read an amazing profile of activist Zackie Achmat, a South African who is HIV positive and has been on a drug strike for four years. His goal is to pressure the South African President Thabo Mbeki and U.S. drug companies for low-cost medications for poor South Africans. Samantha Power wrote the story in the May 19 New Yorker. To learn more about HIV/AIDS in our region, read the transcript of our recent online chat on the subject.