JOHANNESBURG, THURSDAY 23rd MARCH: In the run up to World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) assessed the state of TB infection control in a number of clinics across South Africa. Of 158 facilities assessed, 114 were found to be in a “RED” state with very poor infection control measures in place.

Treatment Action Group, Health GAP, AIDS-Free World, and Treatment Action Campaign urge G20 leaders to fund research to end TB.

* This is a transcript of the speech given by the General Secretary of the Treatment Action Campaign, Anele Yawa, at the closing ceremony of the 46th Union World Conference on Lung Health.

On World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, on the 24th March, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and partner organisations asked Members of Parliament to get tested for TB during the “We die of TB” march. A mobile screening unit was provided outside Parliament by the Desmond Tutu TB Centre. Whilst our memorandum was received by a representative of parliament, no Members of Parliament came out to get tested for TB.

On World TB Day, 5,000 members of the Treatment Action Campaign, partner organisations, health professionals and responsible citizens marched to Parliament in Cape Town demanding that MPs get tested for TB, and that Parliament holds government departments to account on TB.

In the latest updated version of its well known HIV treatment literacy guide, the Treatment Action Campaign explains the science behind HIV.

Patients, doctors and members of civil society meet with government experts to plot a course for quickly reforming South Africa’s patent laws, so that people can access the life-saving medicines they need at affordable prices.

The latest issue of the TAC/SECTION27 NSP Review has a focus on DR-TB.

Activists demand rapid completion of intellectual property policy six years in the making; without internationally recognised public health safeguards policy will be health disaster.