This is an archive of the Treatment Action Campaign's public documents from December 1998 until October 2008. I created this website because the TAC's website appears unmaintained and people were concerned that it
was becoming increasingly hard to find important documents.

The menu items have been slightly edited and a new stylesheet applied to the site. But none of the documents have been edited, not even for minor errors. The text appears on this site as obtained from the Internet Archive.

The period covered by the archive encompassed the campaign for HIV medicines, the civil disobedience campaigns, the Competition Commission complaints, the 2008 xenophobic violence and the PMTCT, Khayelitsha health workers and Matthias Rath court cases.

 
Medicines Act Court Case
 

All materials on this page that have been written and produced by TAC may be reproduced and distributed at no charge and without TAC's permission, so long as the original writers are acknowledged. If you choose to modify the original documents, it must be clearly indicated what your additions are and the original authors must still be acknowledged. Please note, however, that some documents have not been produced by TAC and this notice does not apply to them.

Medicines Act Court Case

A paper on the role of legal action by activists in combatting corporate propaganda surrounding the Medicines Act. (Rich Text Document)
By Mark Heywood (Head of the AIDS Law Project and TAC Secretary) published in Law, Democracy and Development 2001 (2).

TAC Explanation of Medicines Act Court Case Victory
Issued by TAC, 24 April 2001

TAC Q&A on the Medicines Act Court Case
Issued by TAC, 13 March 2001

Medicines Act Court Case: TAC Heads of Argument (text document -- long, but really worth reading)
Issued by TAC, April 2001

Medicines Act Court Case Affidavit filed by TAC on 10 April 2001

Including Supporting Affidavits:
Replying Affidavit Submitted to Pretoria High Court (MS Word version)
Issued by TAC, March 2001 

Replying Affidavit Submitted to Pretoria High Court (ascii text version)
Issued by TAC, March 2001 

Affidavit Submitted to Pretoria High Court (MS Word version)
Issued by TAC, 16 February 2001 

Affidavit Submitted to Pretoria High Court (ascii text version)
Issued by TAC, 16 February 2001 

Individual Affidavits Submitted to the Court Case (Not all of these made the final submission, but all are worth reading -- zipped collection)
Issued by TAC, 16 February 2001

A Summary of the Parliamentary Hearings (text file)
Issued by TAC, 16 May 2000