TAC takes health literacy to school
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) is taking health education to pupils in the rural Eastern Cape.
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Treatment Action Campaign pickets Mpumalanga Clinic
To mark World AIDS Day, the Treatment Action Campaign’s (TAC) Mpumalanga branch picketed outside a local clinic as the AIDS lobby continues to complain about poor service delivery.
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HIV activists reflect on 10 years of treatment
As government officials took to podiums nationwide to deliver World AIDS Day speeches, HIV activists held a much quieter gathering in Johannesburg to reflect on 10 years of antiretroviral (ARV) treatment.
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TAC aims to raise R10 million in November
With only about one-third of the budget it needs for next year, AIDS lobby group the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has announced that it aims to raise R10 million next month.
Read More » TAC aims to raise R10 million in NovemberRegional HIV activists laud the TAC
As the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) continues an international fundraising campaign in response to a financial crisis, HIV activists have hailed the AIDS lobby group as an example of activism in southern and east Africa.
Read More » Regional HIV activists laud the TACThe ordinary heroes of the Treatment Action Campaign
In late September, Health-e News broke news of the financial crisis facing AIDS lobby the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). We look at two TAC activists that embody what South Africa could lose if the TAC closes its doors.
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Lumkhile Sizila: “If someone has been attacked at 3am and needs help, he will be there”
TAC’s Khayelitsha office throngs with people who have been ill-treated by the health establishment and have no one else to fight for them.
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Fikile Mtsweni: “It talks a lot, this t-shirt, to the community”
Friendships are rarely a matter of life and death but for Khosi Dlamini, her best friend may have saved her life.
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Treatment Action Campaign marches on Mpumalanga clinic
AIDS lobby the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) recently marched to one Mpumalanga clinic to demand improved service delivery and a stop to medicine stock outs.
Read More » Treatment Action Campaign marches on Mpumalanga clinicTAC members form home-based care organisation
Member of the AIDS lobby organisation the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) have formed a home-based care organisation to help increase communities’ knowledge about HIV treatment east of Johannesburg.
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Free State: Postcards from a troubled province
As activists and community health workers await the verdict in a court case stemming from July protests regarding allegedly poor Free State health services, OurHealth’s Lungile Thamela speaks to Free State residents about health in the troubled province.
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Political parties largely silent on major health issues
Ahead of South Africa's May elections, many of the country's major political parties have little to say about health issues in the country as only eight parties respond to questions from the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).
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Political parties square off on NHI
To put health on the agenda ahead of May’s elections, the Treatment Action Campaign put some of South Africa’s major health issues to political parties. Here’s what parties said about the introduction of National Health Insurance (NHI).
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Treatment Action Campaign boycotts World AIDS Day celebrations
South Africa's largest association of people living with HIV, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), boycotted South Africa’s World AIDS Day commemoration as more than 900 members marched on the site of celebrations in Piet Retief, Mpumalanga.
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Durban 2000 where to now?
Nelson Mandela has joined the powerful chorus of voices appealing to government to approve "large-scale actions for PMTC" at the close of the international AIDS conference in Durban.
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