South Africa: Six Reasons Why South Africa Still Needs the TAC

The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) on Tuesday launched a global funding campaign to raise R10-million rand by the end of November.

The TAC is known the world over for its Aids activisim and its successful civil disobedience campaigns during the early 2000s, which forced government to make antiretroviral (ARV) treatment available to South Africans. But its funding is drying up.

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