TAC protests at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto lead to SA Government muzzling the Minister of Health and seeking a new relationship with TAC.
A human rights attorney answers questions from Siyayinqoba Beat It! support group about human rights violations by employers when they discover that an employee of the company is HIV Positive. He talks about the landmark case of Hoffman vs SANDF, which made headlines when Hoffman won against his employers, the South African National Defence Force, who fired him because of his HIV-positive status
Scottish singer songwriter Annie Lennox in studio recording the song Jikelele (which means Global Healing, or Universal Access). Lennox invited 23 female artists, including TAC choir, The Generics, to record the benefit single Sing, which incorporates the South African activist song Jikelele. Sales of Sing supported TAC in their fight for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV
Baragwanath Hospital AZT Protest - short speeches
Placard: Non-Aids Only Beach
All female group singing in front of hospital wearing HIV t-shirts
[00:04:13] Bara Dr McIntyre - 1 in 4 pregnant women who come here are HIV positive, their
children 30%-40% will be positive - out of 10 women, four of their kids will be positive.
[00:04:14] Dr Glenda Grey - where is the government, where is Dr Liz Floyd Head of HIV in
Gauteng, shows that they don't care. Today 3 children will be born with HIV in this
hospital, 4000 children each year. Must stop, there is a vaccine, called AZT. Why is
government not giving it to us? Must demand Pharma to give it to us for free. I'm sick and
tired of seeing children dying!
GVs Zackie in crowd
[00:08:12] Mark Heywood - if we don't fight nobody will fight. Have a petition, asked to meet
with President. Ask them not to go ahead with pilot project, want to help you with support.
Second is - many treatments for HIV/AIDS, people don't know about them, we are saying
make these known and available. American friend asked why did Simon Nkoli die? They said
less and less people in US are dying because treatment is available at hospitals, numbers in
US of those dying of HIV dropped by 50%. Yet in Africa last 5500 died everyday. We are
being allowed to die. Small in numbers but massive support - NUMSA, SANGOCO.
Campaign being watched all over the world. Switzerland, Australia, Norway. SADEC
countries also looking at us as an example. Deaths must stop. Marching on 16 June.
South Africa's Constitutional Court hands down a landmark ruling in favour of TAC and the right of access to healthcare services. One of the Constitutional Court judge reports that he cried after the decision was made public
Dr Nceba Gqaleni, Deputy Dean of University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Medical School explains that vitamins do not need to be subjected to the same scientifically rigorous tests as drugs, which is why it is easy for them to be sold without any proof of their effectiveness. They are viewed as supplements while drugs are made to cure illnesses. Nathan Geffen, TAC activist, talks about Matthias Rath’s false advertising and about how he conducts illegal clinical trials
Nelson Mandela speaks about the HIV struggle and his own struggle with various illnesses such as cancer and TB. In his speech he relays a few other stories of people struggling with HIV.
Press conference. Jacob Zuma, Kgalema Molanthe, Essop Pahad and others are present.
Former President Nelson Mandela addresses the media on his stance regarding HIV/AIDS
Despite ongoing calls to fire Tshabalala-Msimang, Mbeki instead fired Nosizwe Madlala-Routledge, the deputy health minister and a critic of his AIDS policies
Out of court settlements are announced between TAC, GSK, and Boehringer Ingelheim regarding TAC's complaint to the Competition Commission. The companies agree to issue seven voluntary licenses for the drugs, increasing competition and bringing down prices.
Zackie Achmat address the St Georgies Cathedral on the need for government to impliment same sex marriage policy. Large group outside St George's Cathedral Cape Town, Gay and Lesbian Coalition. Choir singing. 'Wedding' cabaret performance.
Various speakers pay their last tributes to Simon Nkoli at his funeral. Nkoli died of HIV/AIDS related illnesses. He was vocal on issues of access ARV treatment also made headlines in the Delmas Treason Trial during the apartheid era
TAC closely involved in the drafting of an NSP on HIV/AIDS that proposes to put two million people on treatment by 2011 and cut new HIV infections by 50 percent
TAC launches its civil disobedience campaign against the ANC government to protest at the 600 deaths per day taking place as a result of HIV infection.
TAC leads a march of 20,000 to the South African Parliament on the day of the Presidential state of the nation address to demand a national treatment programme.
Treatment Action Campaign march to Baragawanath hospital where they demand access to ARV for pregnant mothers. This clip features activists Zackie Achmat and Glenda Gray
Pretoria High Court rules in favour of TAC's right of access to information and awards punitive damages against the Minister of Health (the Annex A case) for withholding information about the implementation plan for ARV treatment.
TAC wins its case against Matthias Rath, who is ordered by the Court to stop unregistered ‘clinical trials’ and publishing advertisements claiming that vitamins cure AIDS
The SA Government announces a cabinet decision to develop a national ARV treatment plan. At this point, no people are officially receiving treatment in the public health sector
The community of Khayelitsha and Treatment Action Campaign march to a local magistrate where killers of Lorna Mlofana are about the get seentenced. Lorna was rape and murdered for being HIV Positive.
Sister Nothinina Fekade, a healthcare worker from East London, talks about a clinic that is dedicated to treating long-distance truck drivers and sex workers. The clinic’s main objectives are to educate and offer VCT (voluntary counselling and testing), treat STIs (sexually transmitted infections) and offer treatment to these communities
TAC holds its first meeting with ANC Minister of Health, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, and issues statement on the need to reduce ARV drug prices. Although the meeting was positive, soon after this relations between the TAC and the government began to deteriorate.
US President Barack Obama, then a Senator, visits TAC's Khayelitsha office and meets with then TAC chairperson Zackie Achmat. During his visit, Obama emphasised the importance of HIV testing and urged the South African government to ‘awake’ from AIDS denialism
Zeblon Gwala inventor of the popular herbal medicine ‘Ubhejane’ takes us through his life journey and how he came to create the ‘Ubhejane’ mixture. In this interview he claims that he was able to cure his younger sister who had full-blown AIDS
