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.

Community Mobilisation for Treatment

TAC Activities Around World AIDS Day (released 28 November)

Materials to be Distributed 

• TAC volunteers in 6 provinces for the next two weeks will be distributing pamphlets encouraging people to go for voluntary counselling and testing.
• Posters will be put up encouraging people to go for counselling and testing. The poster message is "Get tested. Get treated."
• A full colour pullout fact sheet on antiretroviral treatment will be distributed in The Sowetan on 1 December and next week's editions of City Vision and the Mail & Guardian. Copies of the fact sheet are available from TAC upon request. We envisage making translations early next year.  

Eastern Cape

• 28 November: About 2000 TAC members and people from the community of Qunu  marched to Nelson Mandela's home to hand over a memorandum thanking him for his contribution towards  fighting the HIV epidemic. The marchers also handed over a memorandum to a representative of the Eastern Cape MEC for Health offering TAC's assistance in the treatment rollout.

Mpumalanga

• 1 December:

Gauteng

• 1 December:
  • West Rand
    • Bekkersdal - March followed by Treatment Literacy activity.
    • Kagiso - street campaign at the taxi rank
  • Soweto:
    • Diepkloof - launch of a TAC branch, Treatment Walk and Pamphlet Distribution.
  • Vaal
    • Boitumelo - Treatment Literacy Workshop
    • Empilisweni - Treatment awareness activity at an ARV site.
  • Orange Farm - Treatment Street Campaign
  • Ekurhuleni Region
  • Natalspruit Hospital - Treatment Literacy Workshop, followed by a Clean-up Campaign.
  • Alexandra - Treatment Street Campaign
  • Tshwane Church Square - Joint event with Department of Health
    

Western Cape

• 29 November: Distribution of VCT pamphlets in Delft and Khayelitsha

• 1 December:
  

Limpopo

• 1 December: TAC and Komanani will be having a joint event around the antiretroviral rollout and they will be awarding 10 caregivers with certificates of appreciation for work well done.  The day will end with a picket in the Vhembe district where pamphlets will be handed out.  
  

Kwazulu-Natal

• 1 December: