UCT | Community Media Trust AIDS Archive

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.

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.

By this time, 450,000 people are on treatment in the public health sector. TAC debates new approaches to campaign for the right to health

TAC organizes mass demonstration to highlight the TB crisis in South Africa.

Despite ongoing calls to fire Tshabalala-Msimang, Mbeki instead fired Nosizwe Madlala-Routledge, the deputy health minister and a critic of his AIDS policies

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 turns its attention to broader issues around health systems and holds a national conference to make demands for a ‘People's Health Service’.

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.

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

TAC files legal papers against the SA Government regarding its failure to provide ARVs to PMTCT

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

TAC holds its Second National Congress in Durban and decides to relaunch civil disobedience

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.

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

5,000 TAC supporters march past the Constitutional Court on the day of its hearing of the appeal in the PMTCT case.