Campaigning for the rights of people with HIV/AIDS!
- Essential HIV info
- Treatment literacy
- Equal Treatment
- Antiretroviral sites
- Useful HIV/AIDS links
- Newsletters: 1998-2006
- Photos
- People at TAC
- Jobs at TAC
- Westville Prison case
- Antiretroviral rollout
- Wrongs of Rath
- Debunking denialism
- Rebuttal of Farber (PDF)
Newsletters, documents and statements in 2006
End violence against women Campaign posters
   
   
Equal Treatment - November 2006
- Making HIV Prevention Work
6 December 2006: letter from TAC to Act Up Paris
Also in the article:
-CONCERN ABOUT ACT UP PARIS ACTIONS WITH REGARD TO DART TRIAL
31 October 2006: HIV testing and counselling
Civil Society Congress Resolutions (Word document)
4 October 2006: Same-sex marriage
- TAC supports same-sex marriage (Read pdf document)
3 October 2006
TAC Analysis of Maternal Deaths
September 2006 - TAC General Secretary Sipho Mthathi's Report to TAC NEC
Read the report (Word document)
29 September 2006: AIDS denialism dealt an irreversible blow
Also in this newsletter:
-
Coalition against fraudulent medicines launched
-
Draft TAC NEC resolutions on XDR TB
-
TAC condemns undemocratic attempt to take over Cape Town City Council
-
TAC supports same-sex marriage
Presentations from the meeting on fraudulent claims about medicines
A comparison of South African and Brazilian mortality
19 September 2006
March to Parliament Memorandum (Word document)
Article published in Business Day: Why we need a new Health Minister
Also: Read this report on the Global Call to Action
18 September 2006: March to Parliament: MPs invited to People's Parliament
7 September 2006: What the Court and TAC expects in the HIV/AIDS plan for Westville Correctional Centre
6 September 2006: Letter from scientists to Mbeki
Also in this newsletter
- Achmat speech at UCT
5 September 2006: TAC appeal for funds
Also in this newsletter
- Reports on Global Day of Action
- TAC mass action events this week
3 September 2006: Mthembu on Health System
30 August 2006: Achmat speech to City Council
Latest Westville prison judgment
Westville Prison Fact Sheet
28 August 2006: Government in contempt of court - Must treat Westville Prisoners
Also in this newsletter
- March to Mahatma Gandhi Hospital
24 August 2006: Reports on Global Day of Action
23 August 2006: Why TAC is protesting
23 August 2006: TAC response to allegation that we trashed SA exhibition at AIDS Conference
20 August 2006: Call for Global Day of Action
Read more
- our 5 demands
Global Day of Action Kit
- Why TAC is protesting
- Leaflet
- Latest Statement
- Stickers
- Petition
16 August 2006: PRISONER DIES BECAUSE OF DELAYS BY GOVERNMENT
Also in this newsletter
- Mail and Guardian article
8 August 2006: Long waiting list for ARV treatment at Mahatma Gandhi Hospital in Durban
Also in this newsletter
- International AIDS Conference
- Understanding HIV statistics
7 August 2006: Understanding HIV statistics
31 July 2006: Getting treatment to Westville Prisoners
Also in this newsletter
- Community stories
18 July 2006: Westville prisoners case
Also in this newsletter
- Report on TAC March
17 July 2006: Report on TAC youth march for prevention in Eastern Cape
Also in this newsletter
- Mseleku & Rath
5 July 2006: Westville Prisoner's Case Judgment
29 June 2006: Why prisoners with AIDS must be treated
An edited version of this article appeared in the Argus on 29 June 2006 under the heading: ARV ruling for prison spotlights access to health for all
Equal Treatment - June 2006
- Women and HIV
21 June 2006: TAC/TAG Africa TB/HIV Workshop
15 June 2006: Massive Youth March for HIV Prevention
Also in this newsletter
- Youth Day events
- TB & HIV meeting
- Mbewu & Rath
15 June 2006: Massive Youth March for HIV Prevention
10,000 people, mostly youths, will march for HIV prevention in King Williams Town on 15 June. They will be demanding comprehensive life-skills education and condoms in schools.
Read more
Photo courtesy of The Argus
01 June 2006: Nkhensani Mavasa's speech at the opening plenary of UNGASS today
Also in this newsletter
- Nkhensani Mavasa at UN
- Westville Prisoners
- Resolutions on Zuma
30 May, 2006: March for universal access to treatment and prevention
The TAC invites you to join a march to the UN offices and Union buildings in Pretoria on Tuesday, 30 May 2006. Gather at Church Square at 10am.
30 May 2006: Nkhensani Mavasa explains why she had an HIV test
28 May 2006: Deaths in Cecilia Makiwane Hospital
24 May 2006: Death of Nozipho Bhengu
Also in this newsletter
- Lysenkoism & Mbeki
24 May 2006: UNGASS
Also in this newsletter
- March in Pretoria on 30 May
- TAC delegation to UNGASS
20 May, 2006: Heroes to Zeroes
19 May, 2006: Fatima Hassan and Jonathan Berger respond to the Minister of Health's spokesperson's racist nonsense about TAC in the Mail & Guardian.
Read Jonathan Berger's Response
19 May, 2006: Body Language on Microbicides - Article in the Mail & Guardian
9 May 2006: Prisoners go to court for treatment
Also:
- Sipho Mthathi letter to City Press
- HIV+ women v. De Lille/Smith
- New Beat-it series on SABC
- The Citizen is irresponsible
- Excellent SA antiretroviral results
26 April 2006: Achmat speech
TAC chairperson, Zackie Achmat, delivered a speech at the closing ceremony of the International Microbicides Conference in Cape Town.
23 April 2006: Prevention march
Several organisations co-hosted a prevention march and summit. This newsletter contains the memorandum handed over to the organisers of the International Microbicides Conference, the South African Government and UNAIDS.
Also in this newsletter: Statement by the ALP and TAC on UNGASS.
20 April 2006: Letter from TAC General Secretary, Sipho Mthathi, to Minister Tshabalala-Msimang
18 April 2006: UNGASS is a chance to make a new start: We cannot afford to squander it
13 April 2006: TAC Annual General Meeting
The TAC Annual General Meeting will take place on 12 May 2006, from 9am to 1pm at the Chalsty Centre at Wits University (not the Devonshire Hotel as originally planned) in Johannesburg. All TAC members are welcome to attend, at their own expense. If you wish to attend, please contact Nwabisa on (021) 788 -Â 3507
12 April 2006: Joint Civil Society Monitoring Forum letter to UNGASS about South African country report
6 April 2006: Make Community-Driven HIV Prevention Work
Read the newsletter
Also in this newsletter:
- TAC deputy-chairperson, Nkhensani Mavasa, tells her story.
- Story on anti-rape protests at Zuma trial from The Star newspaper
TAC has sent our submission prepared for the African Union Peer Review Mechanism to UNGASS.
31 March, 2006: A is for Arogant, B is for Brazen
30 March 2006: SA Government Excludes TAC and ALP from the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on AIDS
Read the newsletter
Also in this newsletter:
- ALP press statement on When can public servants publically attack government policy?
- Prisoners at Westville Prison end hunger strike
- Article by Anton Harber that appeared in Business Day and a response to it by John P. Moore.
- TAC and AIDS Law Project statement in support of Indian opposition to patent protection for GSK's Combivir.
- www.aidstruth.org is a new website dedicated to debunking the pseudo-scientific claims of AIDS denialists.
23 March 2006: TAC January 2006 NEC Resolutions
7 March 2006: Equal Treatment Issue 19 (March 2006) is out
This month's issue explains the science of HIV. It is written in an easy-to-understand non-technical style. We explain how it is known that HIV causes AIDS, the benefits of antiretrovirals outweigh their risks, condoms prevent HIV transmission and there is a large epidemic in South Africa. Plus much more ...
Rebuttal of Celia Farber's AIDS denialist article in Harper's magazine
Read the rebuttal in PDF format
Read the rebuttal in HTML format
3 March 2006: TAC wins court case against Matthias Rath
Read the newsletter
Read the full judgment in TAC v. Rath and Others
2 March 2006: TAC and SWEAT support decriminalisation of sex-work
28 February 2006: TAC Comments on Anthony Butler Article in Business Day
27 February 2006: TAC Statement on President Mbeki's AIDS Denialist Remarks in City Press
23 February 2006: Chief Justice Langa's speech at the AIDS Law Project, Access to Legal Services Conference, 17 February 2006
TAC comment on Matthias Rath's withdrawal from defamation cases
Read the newsletter
Also in this newsletter: TAC pamphlet calling on Khayelitsha residents not to vote for an AIDS denialist
17 February 2006: TAC submission to the African Union Peer Review Mechanism
The TAC has made a submission to the African Union Peer Review Mechanism. This is an edited and improved version of a submission we made to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health in November 2005. We also submitted this to UNGASS in April 2006. Read the submission
16 February 2006 (two newsletters)
TAC Manifesto on Health and Accountable Local Government
TAC welcomes sentence in Lorna Mlofana trial
30 January 2006: TAC demands better antiretroviral rollout in Mpumalanga
Also in this newsletter:
-
Letter from Physicians for Human Right to President Mbeki
-
Bristol-Myers Squibb fails to supply essential life-saving medicine
-
Letter to MCC regarding tenofovir registration
17 January 2006: Analysis of Clinton deal
Also in this newsletter:
-
Appeal for funding
-
How support from friends and his mother helped Moses Setseu: a community report by James Dlamini
-
Second installment of our new regular feature: How we know that antiretroviral treatment works - research from South Africa