Newsletters, documents and statements in 2007
12 December: TAC Statement on the ANC National Conference and Leadership Election
29 November: Maternal health and prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT)
25 November: Western Cape Health Department receives an extra R332 million to improve service delivery
Also:
– TAC statement on the slow pace of justice in the Nandipha Makeke case
– TAC activists help achieve swift justice in rape case
– Annie Lennox launches website and releases music video aimed at HIV/AIDS in South Africa
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9 November: Global march for TB education, prevention, treatment and cure
7 November: TAC Complaint to the Competition Commission against Merck and MSD
Newsletters, documents and statements in 2007
12 December: TAC Statement on the ANC National Conference and Leadership Election
29 November: Maternal health and prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT)
25 November: Western Cape Health Department receives an extra R332 million to improve service delivery
Also:
– TAC statement on the slow pace of justice in the Nandipha Makeke case
– TAC activists help achieve swift justice in rape case
– Annie Lennox launches website and releases music video aimed at HIV/AIDS in South Africa
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9 November: Global march for TB education, prevention, treatment and cure
7 November: TAC Complaint to the Competition Commission against Merck and MSD
4 November: TAC Gauteng to march for better maternal health and PMTCT services in Ekurhuleni
2 November: Letter from Head of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society to Sowetan Newspaper
24 October: Global call to action for the 38th Annual Union World Conference on Lung Health
Also:
– Research shows how to make antiretroviral programmes successful
– Memorandum handed to Eastern Cape Health Officials
– BBC Admits that “Guinea Pig Kids” is Misleading, Erroneous
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23 October: Media Statement by the Minister of Health on the Condom Distribution Programme
17 October: Defend Media Freedom!
7 October: TAC letter to President Mbeki about Virodene
4 October: TAC lodges complaint against Christine Qunta
1 October: Poor PMTCT programme: ALP letter on behalf of TAC to Minister of Health
26 September 2007: Unethical Promotion and Testing of Medicines on Humans
13 September 2007: TAC Limpopo and Mpumalanga will march to Mapulaneng Hospital
11 September 2007: A response to minister of health on mother to child transmission
10 September 2007: Letter sent by TAC to all members of the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) ahead of tomorrow’s meeting
6 September 2007:Mass Meeting: Work with Deputy-President Mlambo-Ngcuka – AIDS Law Project
29 August: Implement the National Strategic Plan!
Over 1,500 people gathered at St Georges Cathedral Cape Town to demand that the South African government implement the HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections National Strategic Plan for 2007-2011.
Here are video clips and photos from the event.
Videos and photos are by Faizel Slamang and may be used free of charge without permission.
27 August 2007: Letter to President Mbeki demanding reasons for retaining Health Minister Tshabalala-Msimang
15 August 2007: Call to Action – Support Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge Demand the implementation of the National Strategic Plan on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections
9 August 2007: President Mbeki: Do not dismiss Deputy-Minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge. Can our people trust you on HIV/AIDS?
8 August 2007: March against hate crimes and violence against women
29 July 2007: Mother-to-child transmission prevention: Government must improve the programme
25 July 2007: Defending Health Rights: the court case to restore health services in Khayelitsha
12 July 2007: AIDS and Human Rights Groups Urge Zambian Government to Address Demands of Striking Health Workers and Stop Arresting Activists
12 July 2007: TAC condemns hate murders
26 June 2007: Cape High Court makes important ruling on restoring health services in Khayelitsh
25 June 2007: TAC and the Coalition Against Public Health Cuts to hold mass community meeting in Khayelitsha
18 June 2007: TAC and patients with chronic conditions file urgent court application to reinstate dismissed health workers
12 June 2007: Letter by Achmat and Mthathi to Government Ministers on dismissal of health workers
3 June 2007: Statement on public service strike
TAC Women in Leadership
24 May 2007: TAC commends progress in national response to HIV/AIDS
15 May 2007: Defence Force discrimination, Constitutional Court extends rape definition, Medical privacy
04 May 2007: SANAC & Cabinet approve NSP. Equal Treatment May 2007 is available
Equal Treatment – 1 May 2007
– HPV Vaccine
– HIV Education
– National Strategic Plan
– And much more!
30 April 2007: National Strategic Plan adopted by SANAC
Newsletter – 26 April: TAC & SAMA v Rath & State
– Tenofovir registered
17 April 2007: ALP submission to Human Rights Commission enquiry into access to health care services –
Newsletter – 15 April 2007: Circumcision and HIV
11 April 2007: ALP submission on international benchmarking
11 April 2007: March to the Third Session of the African Union Conference of Ministers of Health in Johannesburg
04 April 2007: Constitutional Court Judgment: NM, SM and LH v. Patricia De Lille, Charlene Smith and New Africa Books
01 April 2007: Message of condolence to Minister Jeff Radebe and the family of Ian Phillips
– A report on the NUM strike at Impala Mines
– Challenge by people living with HIV to Criselda Kananda
16 March 2007: Call to march by the Save Zimbabwe Campaign Coalition Letter by Achmat and Geffen on Zimbabwe
5 March 2007: Draft HIV and STI National Strategic Plan (Word document)
12 March 2007: Acting Health Minister meets with TAC
09 March 2007: TAC joins ARASA in condemning AIDS denialism in Zambia
05 March 2007: TAC to hold imbizos for National Strategic Plan
01 March 2007: Statement by Coalition Against Fraudulent Claims about Medicines
27 February 2007: TAC statement on the appointment of Jeff Radebe as Acting Minister of Health
23 January 2007: A paper on AIDS and pseudo-science in the media
21 February 2007: TAC mobilises over tenofovir
Also in this newsletter
– Tenofovir Campaign details and memo
– Response to City Press poor reporting on microbicide trial
20 February 2007: Medicines Control Council must stop dragging its heels on life-saving drugs
15 February 2007: Joint TAC/MSF statement: Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu calls on Novartis to drop Indian court case
Also in this newsletter
– Church leaders call on Novartis to drop Indian court case
07 February 2007: TAC comment on the termination of Ushercell microbicide trial
Also in this newsletter
– a community story told to TAC trainee journalist Nokulanga April by Alfreda Brinkhuis.
06 February 2007: Campaign for tenofovir to be registered
Also in this newsletter
– TB and social grants: Some interviews conducted by Sylvia Flynn, a TAC trainee journalist.
25 January 2007: TAC’s letter Re: Novartis’ challenge to India’s public health safeguards
24 January 2007: Stop Novartis’s attempt to block Indian generic medicines
