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.
TAC Electronic Newsletter
30 November 2005
Nadine Gordimer donates R1.5 million to TAC
At a press conference in Johannesburg this morning, Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer and South African singer, Ringo Madlingozi, joined the Treatment Action Campaign in making a call for all people in South Africa and internationally to work together to prevent new HIV infections and ensure treatment for people with AIDS. They supported TAC’s call for actions of solidarity by the influential and successful with the poor and marginalised.
Madlingozi talked about his mission as a musician to “create music that will heal” and pledged that one track on his coming album would be dedicated to the TAC and its community work. He called on young women to protect themselves from HIV by carrying condoms and ensuring that they are not forced into sexual relationships.
Gordimer reported that her book “Telling Tales”, a collection of short stories by internationally acclaimed writers, including 5 Nobel Laureates, was now available in 16 different languages. The book is making no profit for the authors or publishers and all royalties are being donated to the Treatment Action Campaign. Gordimer handed
over a cheque for R1,449,248.81 to the TAC – royalties from sales in the United States and United Kingdom.
The TAC issued its heartfelt thanks to Gordimer and Madlingozi. We regard them as champions for people with HIV. Finally, the TAC issued a call for ordinary people all over the world to make financial contributions to the TAC to help us to continue our work of HIV prevention and treatment and campaign to restore hope and dignity to people and communities already affected by HIV.
(To make a contribution to TAC, visit tac.org.za/donatenow)
For further information, contact:
Nonkosi Khumalo – 084 300 7008
Mark Heywood – 083 634 8806
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