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Treatment Action Campaign to march for treatment
12 January 2003. TAC Press Release.
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The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has called for a march for treatment to Parliament and the US Consulate in Cape Town on 14 February 2003.
The event will begin at 11am at the Cape Town Civic Centre. It will proceed from 12pm to the US Consulate. Then it will proceed to the
opening of Parliament.
TAC called for a march to Parliament to call on Government to sign and implement the treatment plan negotiated at Nedlac. If Government fails to sign the agreement by the end of February, TAC will begin a civil disobedience campaign in March.
TAC called for a march to the US consulate because the US Government and other G7 countries have a moral imperative to commit resources,
expertise and finance to alleviating the worldwide HIV/AIDS epidemic. The GFATM has received commitments valued at $2.1 billion over a 4 year period. This is very short of the $10 billion per year that Kofi Annan has called for and insignificant compared to US expenditure on its war against terrorism and the increasingly likely war against Iraq.
Furthermore, at recent WTO negotiations in Geneva, the US scuttled the Doha agreement which made it easier for developing world countries to
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