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No commitment to treatment at partnership against HIV/AIDS meeting
07 October 2002. TAC Press Release.
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On Saturday, TAC members participated in the 4th anniversary of the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) Partnership Against AIDS in Langa, Cape Town.
We went to the event hoping that Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang or Deputy President Jacob Zuma would make a commitment to developing a treatment plan. Unfortunately, neither of them made a meaningful mention of treatment in their speeches. There was immense disappointment among TAC members, most of whom - in frustration - walked out of the meeting after the speeches, leaving the meeting with less than half its original attendants.
We handed over the following memorandum to Linda Makhatini, the Deputy-President's Legal Advisor, who promised to deliver it to the Deputy-President:
5 October 2002
Memorandum to SANAC calling for the transformation of SANAC and a national treatment plan
To deputy president, Mr. Jacob Zuma (mp)
The members of SANAC:
Mr Y Abba Omar (GCIS), Prof A K Asmal (Minister of Education), Miss Henrietta Bogopane, Ms Dana Cooper (General Manager, Action Stations), Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo (Mayor, Newcastle Local Council), Ms A T Didiza (Minister of Agricultural and Land Affairs), Mr. Thanduxolo Doro (NAPWA), Ms G J Fraser-Moleketi (Minister of Public Services and Administration), Ms Nomonde Gongxeka, Ms Loretta Jacobus (Chairperson, Select Committee on Social Services), , Mr Majoro Lehasa, Mr M G P Lekota (Minister of Defence), Ms Elise Levendal, Mr T A Manuel (Minister of Finance), Rev Cedric Mayson, Mr Lucky Mazibuko, Mr M M S Mdladlana (Minister of Labour), Ms P Mlambo-Nguka (Minister of Minerals and Energy), Mr John Moeti, Mr F S Mufamadi (Minister of Provincial and Local Government), Inkosi M B Mzimela (Chairperson, House of National Traditional Healers), Dr B S Ngubane (Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology), Ms Nobulawo Nhlapo, Dr L. V. Ngculu (Chairperson, Portfolio Committee of He!
alth, Parliament of SA), Ms Ncumisa Nongogo (AIDS Legal Network), Mr A M Omar (Minister of Transport), Dr Mark Ottenweller (Hope Worldwide), Mr Sizwe Shezi (President, SA Youth Council), Mr B M Skosana (Minister of Correctional Services), Dr Z S T Skweyiya (Minister of Welfare and Population Development), Dr M E Tshabalala-Msimang (Minister of Health), Mr Zwelinzima Vavi (COSATU), Mr J G Zuma (Deputy-President), Dr Nono Simelela (Chief Director, HIV/AIDS and STDs), Ms Thami Skenjana (Government AIDS Action Programme), Dr J H O Pretorius (Deputy Director-General, Corporate Services and External Relations) Dr Ayanda Ntsaluba (Director-General, Department of Health)
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) is here again today to declare our support for the South African National AIDS Council and the Partnership Against AIDS. However, this support is not unconditional. Approximately 5 million South Africans live with HIV/AIDS. Most of them will die over the next decade, unless Government develops and implements a Treatment Plan that includes the use of highly active antiretroviral therapy. Recently released research by the University of Cape Town Centre for Actuarial Research demonstrates that a plan that includes treatment and prevention interventions can prevent nearly three million AIDS deaths and new HIV infections by 2015. The TAC has advocated for such a plan since its inception...
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