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.

NAPWA - TAC

National Association for People Living with HIV/AIDS - Treatment Action Campaign

P.O. Box 31195; BRAAMFONTEIN; 2017; South Africa
Telephone: 011-403-8113; Facsimile: 011-403-4404
E-mail:

MINISTER OF HEALTH CALLS FOR PUBLIC MOBILISATION TO MAKE HIV/AIDS TREATMENTS AFFORDABLE FOR ALL

Below is a joint statement issued by the Minister of Health and the Treatment Action Campaign on Friday 30th April 1999. We call on all trade union members to help put it into action!

• The Minister of Health, Dr. Nkosazana Zuma and a delegation from the NAPWA Treatment Action Campaign agreed that affordable treatment for HIV/AIDS and all medical conditions is a basic human right.
• The Minister assured the Treatment Action Campaign that government would name an affordable price for the implementation of AZT to pregnant mothers and report within six weeks on the price and other issues pertaining to the prevention of mother-to-child transmission.
• The Minister of Health calls on business, labour, religious bodies, women's organisations and all sectors of civil society to pressurise Glaxo Wellcome and all pharmaceutical companies to unconditionally lower the price of all HIV/AIDS medications to an affordable price for poor people and countries. The Treatment Action Campaign agrees with the Minister that pressure on the drug companies and the producers of formula feed such as Nestle is a key objective of all civil society bodies.
• The next meeting between the TAC and the Minister of Health is scheduled for mid-June 1999

Fight for a Better Life and Dignity for All!

Put pressure on drug companies to "unconditionally lower the price of all HIV/AIDS medications to an affordable price for poor people and countries.

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