Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) -- 7 June 2001

Upcoming Events and Announcements





* A memorial service for Nkosi Johnson will take place on Friday, 8 June

2001 at St. Georges Cathedral, Cape Town. It starts at 13:00.



* On 12-14 June, TAC is having 3 days of action for mother-to-child

transmission prevention (mtctp):

Venue: Guguletu/KTC MOU, Cape Town



Tuesday 12 June & Wednesday 13 June

10am - 4pm - EDUCATION AND AWARENESS RAISING AROUND MTCTP 

Exhibition, painting mural on clinic wall, pamphleteering,

organisational information tables, poster painting and picketing and

much more.



Thurday 14 June

6pm - 8pm - CANDLE LIGHT VIGIL IN SOLIDARITY WITH WOMEN WHO DO NOT HAVE

ACCESS TO MTCTP PROGRAMS IN THEIR AREAS  Speakers, cultural activities

(bring warm clothes!)



* TAC Rally for a Treatment Plan and mtctp on 16 June

Venue: Manyanani Recreation Hall, Macassa

Time: 10:00 to 14:00



* The Department of Health has had a report on HIV/AIDS since October

2000, which they have not made publicly available. The report was

commissioned by the department, and contains alarming, yet conservative,

predictions regarding the progression of the epidemic if the status quo

is maintained. Over 3 million South Africans will die of AIDS by 2010,

if nothing is done. Yet the government has no plan and, based on the

minister of health's speech in parliament on Tuesday, has no intention

of coming to terms with the seriousness of this epidemic. The report

also recommends mtctp, making it the second government commissioned

report to do so, yet the programme continues to be implemented on a

scale which will only reach 10% of pregnant women. Even this small

programme continues to be delayed.



TAC has obtained a slideshow presentation on the report. It is available

from:

http://www.tac.org.za/hensher.ppt



We do not, however, have the report itself and urge the government to

release it immediately.



* Dr. Beth Harley produced a document called "HIV/AIDS Primary Care

Clinical Guidelines Cape Metropolitan Area" in 1999. It is available

from:

http://www.tac.org.za/bhaidsgd.doc



* The TAC constitution is available from:

http://www.tac.org.za/tacconst.rtf



* Virtually all the documentation from the court case is now available

on the TAC website:

http://www.tac.org.za/archive.htm



* The Documents webpage on the TAC site has been revamped. It contains

many useful articles, pamphlets, guides, newsletters and archived documents. 

Please browse it:

http://www.tac.org.za/archive.htm





To contact TAC: 

Email: info@tac.org.za 

Website: www.tac.org.za

Tel: 	27 (0) 21 364 5489 (Cape Town)

	27 (0) 11 403 7021 (Johannesburg)

	27 (0) 31 364 5489 (Durban)

If you have no luck at the above telephone numbers, try:

27 (0) 82 693 8826 or 

27 (0) 21 462 6322