The price of denial (2004) 5(3) Interfund Development Update 93.

1 December 2004 Posted in: Aids Law Project, Archive, Publications

PRESS RELEASE: Patient Groups admitted as ‘friends of the court’

By Butho, 4 August 2015

Posted in: News

Patient Groups admitted as ‘friends of the court’ in Genesis Medical Scheme v Minister of Health 4 August 2015 On 29 July 2015, Judge Blignault of the Western Cape High Court handed down a judgment allowing various parties to intervene in the case of Genesis Medical Scheme v Minister of…

Tags: Genesis Health care HIV PMB SECTION27 South Africa TB Treatment Action Campaign

Justice and the Treatment Action Campaign by Mark Heywood

By cindytest, 8 November 2009

Posted in: Aids Law Project, Archive, Publications

It is a terrible irony that the need for an effective and ongoing response to the AIDS epidemic will be one of the defining legacies left to the ANC by a President who tried to deny the existence of HIV. It is also ironic that the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), an organization that Mbeki once branded as ‘flag carrier for pharmaceutical companies’, is heralded one of the few organizations that was able to force a complete overturn policy in an area defined and defended by himself, during his Presidency.

Tags: AIDS Denialism government Health HIV Human rights Justice Mark Heywood TAC Treatment Action Campaign

The fundamental barriers to access to medicine remain

By admin, 24 October 2018

Posted in: Access to medicines, News, Right to Access Healthcare

Eighteen years after the Durban conference, government efforts to increase medicine access – beyond HIV treatments – have been excruciatingly slow. Though ARVs are now widely available, many more shocking cases of injustice in access to essential medicines remain.

Tags: affordable medicine AIDS antiretrovirals ARVs HIV intellectual property Justice Edwin Cameron

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