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October 4, 2011

  • South Africa: A Timeline of Activism

    In a new book, Fighting for our Lives the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), an lobby group, looks back on more than a decade of activism. Read more »

  • South Africa: Twelve Years of the TAC Fight

    A new book looks back on more than a decade of the life of South African lobby group, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), whose brand of activism came to define the world's fight... Read more »



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September 9, 2011

  • Malawi: ARV Supply and Funding Woes

    By 9am, the Limbe Health Centre in Malawi's second city, Blantyre, is already full. HIV-positive patients are lining up to collect their antiretrovirals, despite reports of... Read more »



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August 28, 2011

  • South Africa: Policy Turnaround on Breastfeeding

    South Africa's high child mortality rates have forced the government to rethink its policy on infant feeding and move to discontinue the free provision of formula milk at hospitals... Read more »



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August 15, 2011

  • South Africa: Govt Moves to Earlier HIV Treatment

    HIV-positive people in South Africa will be able to access antiretrovirals (ARVs) sooner after the government raised the CD4 count necessary to access treatment. But some warn the... Read more »



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