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	Treatment Action Campaign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		TAC continues to protest and sue the government (working with the AIDS Law Project) as needed to encourage the rollout.
		TAC entered the case as an amicus curiae, submitting a brief in favour of the government's position.
		TAC successfully pursued retractions and corrections from the newspapers, and Rath was censured by the South African media control body.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Treatment_Action_Campaign (473 words)

	MDG Campaign - Chapter 3: Planning a Campaign
		TAC then monitored the implementation of the court agreement and in December 2002 charged government with contempt of court through the Human Rights Commission for failing to implement the Constitutional Court judgement in one province.
		TAC’s call for a National Treatment Plan was first made in a Memorandum handed to the Minister of Health at the end of the Global March to Save Lives in July 2000.
		TAC found that generally society welcomes a social movement that is skilful, loud and non-threatening as a victory for democracy.
	www.civicus.org /mdg/3-5.htm (2800 words)

	Critical Path AIDS Project
		Global Treatment Action Campaign (GTAC) is a global network for communication and organization towards access to essential medications for HIV and other diseases.
		Global Treatment Action Campaign is committed to working on these issues by creating and supporting partnerships between first- and third-world activist groups, and providing action tools and updates on current campaigns around the world.
		Its main objective is to campaign for greater access to treatment for all South Africans, by raising public awareness and understanding about issues surrounding the availability, affordability and use of HIV treatments.
	www.critpath.org /cpap/hivtreatment.php?h=3&c=9 (734 words)

	The Body: Taking it to the Street
		TAC has also served notice that it will take legal action against Pfizer to seek a compulsory license to allow South African companies to produce cheaper copies of fluconazole.
		TAC members have also committed themselves to a defiance campaign: they will import fluconazole and distribute the drug through a number of doctors and nurses who have already indicated their support for the project.
		Mbeki's likely response to this action is still a matter of conjecture, but it is clear that the Treatment Action Campaign and other AIDS activists have major support in South Africa and around the world.
	www.thebody.com /tag/sept00/tac.html (1806 words)

	Project Inform TAN Action Alert - December 12, 2001 ( HIV / AIDS Treatment Information )
		In late November, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), an organization of treatment activists in South Africa, began court hearings to require the South African government to provide access to nevirapine for HIV positive pregnant women as part of efforts to reduce mother-to-child HIV transmission.
		TAC and two other parties are suing the South African National Department of Health and eight of nine provincial health ministers, demanding that the government make nevirapine available (under proper medical supervision) at all public hospitals and health clinics.
		TAC is asking for individuals and organizations around the world to send letters of support for their efforts.
	www.projinf.org /news/01_12safr.html (587 words)

	Treatment Action Campaign to take govt, Pfizer to court
		The TAC also announced on Thursday that it would start legal action to obtain a compulsory licence against multinational pharmaceutical company Pfizer, who reneged on its promise to provide fluconazole for free to South Africans living with HIV/AIDS.
		In the meantime the TAC will prepare for a defiance campaign against drug companies by importing good quality generic medications including fluconazole and ensuring that they are available to health facilities for appropriate use," Mark Heywood of the TAC said.
		The TAC also announced that it would launch a national Treatment Action Council in September 2000 that will build on the broad base of support that already exists for their demands and ensure that they are enforced at every level of society.
	www.aegis.com /news/woza/2000/IC000704.html (661 words)

	S. African Treatment Action Campaign Defamation Lawsuit Against Vitamin Advocate Rath Opens Amid Protests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		TAC in court papers said, "The Rath Foundation is preying on vulnerable people with life-threatening illnesses with two aims: to sell their products and to support the HIV denialists who have caused enormous damage to our country" (News24.com, 5/14).
		TAC Chair Zackie Achmat said he is "very confident" that TAC will prevail in the suit, saying, "Dr. Rath has not produced a single shred of evidence that the TAC is funded by pharmaceutical companies" (News24.com, 5/14).
		TAC has said that Rath's work with vitamin treatment in the Cape Town township of Khayelitsha is "probably illegal because he did not have approval to open clinics and offer any kind of therapy," according to the Guardian.
	www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=24506 (620 words)

	Treatment Action Campaign Awarded Prestigious 2003 Mandela Award For Health And Human Rights - Kaiser Family Foundation
		TAC is recognized for its historic contribution to advancing the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS and specifically for its contribution to advancing access to treatment for HIV-positive people in South Africa and internationally.
		In 2001, TAC brought a successful constitutional court action compelling government to make drugs available for the prevention of transmission of HIV from mothers to their children.
		TAC in a statement said: "This is a recognition of our struggle to secure the right to health for all people by the world's foremost human rights hero, Mr.
	www.kff.org /southafrica/05202003-index.cfm (465 words)

	Drug Access \| Treatment Action Campaign Members File Manslaughter Charges Against South African Officials Over Lack of ...
		TAC has begun a week of nonviolent "mass civil disobedience" in the country to urge the government to provide HIV/AIDS drugs in public hospitals and clinics.
		TAC hopes that the protest campaign, set to coincide with Human Rights Day, will influence the South African government to agree to a framework treatment and prevention plan that was worked out at a National Economic Development and Labor Council meeting last year.
		TAC said that it will seek to have 600 people arrested during the week of protest action to symbolize the number of people in South Africa who die daily of AIDS-related conditions, and the group said it would "escalate" the campaign in a second week in April if the government "does not respond," the
	www.kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=16729 (513 words)

	Press Statement by South African Treatment Action Campaign (TAC)
		Whilst the TAC welcomes the proposed contribution of $100 million by the US government to fighting AIDS in Africa, we believe that developing countries need to find sustainable local means to manufacture and distribute essential drugs.
		In this regard, the TAC will call for 01 October 1999 to be used as a national day of action against the PMA and member pharmaceutical companies.
		The TAC commits itself to campaign, negotiate, pressurise, demonstrate, litigate and use every possible legal means at our disposal, including civil disobedience, to prevent losing any more lives in the interest of profit.
	lists.essential.org /pharm-policy/msg00210.html (1252 words)

	South Africa: Treatment Action Update
		For additional background, see the website of the Treatment Action Campaign [http://www.tac.org.za], which includes the April 9 deathbed statement of TAC activist and poet Edward Mabunda, and the international solidarity page of the Healthgap website [http://www.healthgap.org/camp/tac.html], which includes sample letters to South African consulates.
		It's also wrong because it undermines the dignity of the protest of thousands of TAC volunteers and allows people who need to curry favour with officials a cover for their lack of courage and morality.
		Treatment Action Campaign Chair Zackie Achmat, who has threatened to take legal action if the agreement is not approved, said, "This is costing lives and if necessary we will make an application to court to get the minister's reasons for it" (Cape Times/Independent Online, 4/11).
	www.africaaction.org /docs03/tac0304.htm (2089 words)

	DURBAN MARCH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Treatment Action Campaign march against pharmaceutical giants and governments - planned to coincide with the opening day of the 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa in July, will be peaceful and legal.
		Both parties are in full support of the demonstration and its objectives: treatment access, improved health infrastructure and prevention of HIV transmission from mother to child.
		TAC stressed that this was not a demonstration against AIDS 2000, its delegates or participants, and the group would reiterate the objectives and methods of the march to those participating in it to ensure that it proceeded without incident.
	www.healthgap.org /press_releases/00/052900_MARCH_ORG.html (453 words)

	Treatment Action Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		TAC’s goal was to make South Africa’s government permit all pregnant women to get access to medicines that would prevent the disease from transmitting from the mother to the child.
		Zackie Achmt, chairman in TAC says that the government tries to defuse the crises, since reluctant investors, afraid of the aids epidemic are already on their way out of Africa this on top of high criminality, strong national unions and politicising crowds, is more than enough for the governments to take.
		The organisation TAC is demanding that “nevirapine” immediately becomes accessible at all hospitals and care centre in the county, since boehringer- ingelheims donation only will not make it to more than the nine province hospitals.
	hem.passagen.se /projectaids/tac.htm (498 words)

	SUPPORT THE TREATMENT ACTION CAMPAIGN (TAC)
		Health GAP joins the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), and numerous South African organizations, in calling on the South African government to implement a national HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment plan and to sign the NEDLAC agreement it negotiated last November.
		TAC appeals to our international allies to organise a day of Action on 24 April 2003 to urge the South African Government to save millions of lives by signing the NEDLAC treatment and prevention plan and making an unequivocal, irreversible commitment to the implementation of antiretroviral therapy in the South African public sector.
		For TAC's civil disobedience campaign in March, we encourage organisations to continue letter-writing campaigns and meetings with SA consulate officials.
	www.healthgap.org /camp/tac_hgap.html (2260 words)

	The Body: S. African Court Reserves Judgment on Treatment Action Campaign Case Against Vitamin Advocate
		TAC has asked the Cape Town High Court to issue a temporary injunction to prevent Rath and the California-based Dr.
		TAC has encouraged the South African government to provide access to antiretroviral drugs for HIV-positive people in the country.
		Rath and his foundation have filed a response to TAC's request, saying that the foundation's claims about antiretrovirals are true and their criticism of TAC is allowed under the country's constitutional right to free expression (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 5/31).
	www.thebody.com /kaiser/2005/jun23_05/tac_trial.html (424 words)

	Act Up-Paris \| Treatment Action Campaign (TAC, Afrique du Sud)
		This speech was read by Nomfundo Dubula from the south-african NGO Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) during the closing ceremony of the ICASA in Nairobi (Kenya), the 26th september 2003.
		Treatment Action Campaign a remis au gouvernement sud-africain un mémorandum demandant la mise en place d’un plan national de prévention et d’accès aux traitements.
		Aujourd’hui, 13 mars 2000, Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), une coalition de malades du sida sud africains, demande officiellement à Pfizer de réduire drastiquement le prix de son médicament, le fluconazole, ou de lui octroyer une licence volontaire afin d’en produire à moindre coût une version générique.
	www.actupparis.org /mot231.html (851 words)

	The Body: South Africa: Treatment Action Campaign Joins Up With Levi's to Fight HIV
		Jeans company Levi Strauss SA is partnering with the AIDS lobby group Treatment Action Campaign in a new outreach to prevent HIV infections among young South Africans.
		TAC Chairperson Zackie Achmat said the group decided to do so because of Levi Strauss' progressive attitude toward people living with the disease.
		The campaign plans to distribute 60,000 condoms primarily to schools, and hopes to raise 1 million rand (US$165,000) for TAC to provide treatment to HIV-positive people.
	www.thebody.com /cdc/news_updates_archive/2005/jan19_05/tac_levis.html (223 words)

	The Scientist :: Controversial AIDS scientist prompts outcry, Mar. 13, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		CAPE TOWN — A campaign of civil disobedience is to take place in South Africa next week to protest against the government's hiring of Roberto Giraldo — a controversial scientist who denies that HIV causes AIDS.
		The Treatment Action Campaign has called on the government to sign up to the NEDLAC framework agreement for a national treatment and prevention plan for combating HIV/AIDS.
		The research, commissioned by the Treatment Action Campaign and conducted by the University of Cape Town, calculated that a national programme, including anti-retroviral treatment would cost R224 million (US$28 million) to implement, rise to R6.8 billion (US$800 million) annually in 2007, and peak at R18.1 billion (US$2.2 billion) in 2015.
	www.biomedcentral.com /news/20030313/07 (680 words)

	AfricaFiles \| South Africa: Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) calls for stronger political leadership in AIDS issues
		South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) expressed its concern on Wednesday over the delay in the government's rollout of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) - the core of the " Operational Plan for Comprehensive HIV and AIDS Care " released by the cabinet in November last year.
		TAC said it would consider legal action if no further progress was made by Human Rights Day, on 21 March.
		TAC said it was also concerned by President Thabo Mbeki 's fleeting reference to AIDS in both his state of the nation address and a recent live interview with the national broadcaster.
	www.africafiles.org /article.asp?ID=4574 (487 words)

	q online - AIDS: NAPWA's Treatment Action Campaign steps up their drive
		The campaign has seen a change in direction as the disease is increasingly becoming one associated with poverty.
		NAWPA's TAC has as its three aims, the first being to appeal to Health Minister Zuma and Finance Minister Manuel to meet and plan the implementation of free AZT and formula feeding for pregnant mothers with HIV/AIDS.
		Their TAC slated for Human Rights Day on Sunday March 21 will involve holding public fasts to call for access to treatment.
	www.q.co.za /news/1999/9903/990309-napwa.htm (316 words)

	MAKE AIDS HISTORY
		But the WHO "3 by 5" project to expand treatment access by 2005 to 3 million people reports a $2 billion funding gap.
		Treatment scale up—saving lives—should be a fundamental part of the G7 countries' response to the AIDS crisis.
		The G7 countries must commit to funding and supporting efforts to increase treatment coverage to at least 6 million by 2007, and commit to an urgent timeline for achieving universal treatment access thereafter.
	www.globaltreatmentaccess.org (1375 words)

	TAG: Report from the Second International TB/HIV Community Education & Mobilization Workshop
		The Treatment Action Group (TAG) fights to find a cure for AIDS and to ensure that all people living with HIV receive the necessary treatment, care, and information they need to save their lives.
		For the many of the over 60 treatment activists from 31 countries who attended the workshop, discussions in the various groups were an eye-opener to the untold havoc TB is wrecking in many communities, its intrinsic linkage with HIV and the need to adopt proactive strategies to stem this 'silent epidemic'.
		TAC is a movement aiming to end HIV, engaging in HIV prevention, treatment literacy and social mobilization.
	www.aidsinfonyc.org /tag/tbhiv/tbhivwkshop2.html (10868 words)

	Treatment Action Campaign Model for Land Campaign
		The Treatment Action Campaigns crusade for the provision of anti-retroviral drugs to people living with HIV/Aids is to serve as a model for a civic campaign for the expropriation of land from absentee landlords, and of unutilised or underutilised land.
		The land-reform campaign will begin in the new year with picketing, rallies and intensive lobbying of government agencies.
		The SACC and the NLC will demand that underutilised land be expropriated; that ceilings be imposed on the size and number of properties owned by individuals; that a five-year moratorium on land sales to foreigners be imposed; and that the state be given first option in accessing liquidated farms for use in equitable land reform.
	www.aegis.com /news/DMG/2001/MG011209.html (540 words)

	People & Planet - AIDS campaign - Treatment activism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		TAC recently achieved a huge breakthrough when it finally persuaded the South African government to set up a national AIDS treatment programme - the largest in the world.
		He explained to me that there was treatment that could keep me healthy and told me about how TAC was fighting to bring down the prices so poor people could afford it.
		The main work that I do with TAC is to organise workshops to teach people about treatment, talking to other people with the virus and trying to get more organisations involved in the campaign.
	www.peopleandplanet.org /stopaids/briefing.activism.php (747 words)

	In The Courts \| Treatment Action Campaign Continuing Legal Action Urging South African Government To Develop AIDS ...
		Treatment Action Campaign Continuing Legal Action Urging South African Government To Develop AIDS Treatment Targets
		According to Fatima Hassan, an attorney with the AIDS Law Project of Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, the South African Department of Health was supposed to attach a document -- called "annexure A" -- to its plan that was released in November 2003.
		reported earlier this week that TAC said it had dropped its request for the publication of "annexure A" after health department officials told the group that there was no "officially adopted document" for the rollout of antiretroviral drugs to area hospitals.
	www.kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=26444 (289 words)

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