When the Treatment Action Campaign launched a defiance campaign in March this year, 32-year-old Kebareng Moeketsi was at the forefront of the first protest. Barely a week later Moeketsi, a volunteer HIV counsellor from Alexandra near Johannesburg, died of Aids, leaving behind two children. Accepting the Nelson Mandela Health and Human Rights Award on behalf of the TAC this week, chairman Zackie Achmat said : "During our civil disobedience campaign from March 20 to July 31, more than 100 of our leaders have died."