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.
The publication is edited by Tandeka Vinjwa, a Media Literacy Practitioner at TAC's Lusikisiki office.
This edition focuses primarily on rape and gender-based violence to coincide with the District's June GBV campaign, but it also features articles on cervical cancer, child-headed households as well as an update on TAC's new campaign in Canzibe.
TAC Treasurer Nathan Geffen and ARASA's former Regional Treatment Literacy Coordinator Gregg Gonsalves have recently co-authored an article describing the irrational actions of Act Up-Paris and some other organisations in recent years. Geffen and Gonsalves argue that the irrationality of these groups threatens the development of new treatment and prevention technologies for people with HIV and undermines scientific research programmes in developing countries.
You can download a copy of the article here.
The article was recently published in the Autumn issue of the Journal of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society. Please note that there might be slight editing differences between the version of the article available here and the published edition.
A poster explaining how to prevent and recognize TB, with emphasis on the message that it can be treated.
Easy to read brochure that explains how to recognize and treat TB.
Copyright by TAC under the GNU Documentation License.
An easy to read pamphlet for parents- and grandparents-to-be on their responsibilities and choices.
Copyright by TAC under the GNU Documentation License.
A pamphlet to explain what hate crimes are, including newspaper clippings of perpetrated crimes.
Copyright by TAC under the GNU Documentation License.
An easy to read pamphlet explaining the crime of rape and legal action in South Africa.
Copyright by TAC under the GNU Documentation License.
World Health Organisation guidelines on various HIV-related issues
Copyright by World Health Organisation.
Guidelines produced by the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society.
Copyright by the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society.