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'You can start changing our world for the better daily, no matter how small the action'. TAC is a human rights movement fighting for quality health care for all
South Africa
Joined March 2007
The work of TAC & @RitshidzeSA is more crucial now than ever. We should be monitoring the impact in our clinics, but much of our funding has also been suspended
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Save TAC! Save Ritshidze! Save Lives 5 March 2025, Johannesburg — Today, in large part due to the activism of TAC, South Africa has 5.8 million people living with HIV on antiretroviral (ARV) treatm...
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At this critical juncture in the AIDS response and on this #Mandeladay, let's remember his critical intervention at the international Aids conference in Durban in July 2000, when he highlighted that it was the poor “who would carry a disproportionate burden of the AIDS epidemic,”
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RT @Winnie_Byanyima: While the funding cuts have been devastating, I am eager to explore & support their new approach called ‘corner-to-cor….
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Comrade @Winnie_Byanyima and @UNAIDS @UNAIDS_ZAF have always been critical partners in community-led monitoring. We need to amplify, not reduce our work at this critical juncture. Data from Itireleng CHC and other health facilities will be highlighted in the data we are analyzing.
I visited Itireleng Community Health Centre in Soweto last week, to learn more about how the PEPFAR funding freeze has impacted 🇿🇦's #HIVresponse. Community members from @TAC & @RitshidzeSA shared they have been facing:.✅ suspension of outreach services.✅ loss of critical staff
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After the U.S funding suspension PLHIV are reporting extra challenges making it harder to stay on ARVs inc. shorter supplies of ARVs & staff shortages causing delays in scheduled viral load tests. Hlubi* from Gauteng explains:
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The dysfunction in our clinics is a key reason that people stop taking their ARVs. Over the years Ritshidze has documented hundreds of testimonies and produced countless data that show how people...
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TB is the leading cause of HIV related deaths in SA. Taking TB prevention pills (& ART) can reduce sickness & death. However following the U.S government suspension of funding, some people are unable to get it. Here Thuli from KZN shares her experience:
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TB is the leading cause of HIV-related deaths in South Africa — with 31,000 people living with HIV who died of TB in 2022. While HIV treatment greatly reduces the risk of getting TB, taking pills to...
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Pick-up points make ARV collection easier. But PEPFAR funded staff were supporting the supply chain to enable this. With the U.S funding suspension some PLHIV report postponements—putting them at risk of interrupting treatment. Maite from Limpopo explains
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Over the years Ritshidze has documented hundreds of testimonies and produced countless data that document how people stop taking their ARVs because of the poor conditions in our clinics. The long...
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David's* NGO-run mobile clinic shut after the US funding suspension & now he must go to the nearest public clinic. He says: “I'm very scared to go there without a transfer letter; I’m scared they'll turn me away”. He’s already gone 1 month without ARVs
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Ritshidze has been documenting for years how changing between clinics can become a nightmare. In 2024 1,508 people said that they or someone they knew had been denied services without a transfer...
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In Dec, govt committed to provide 6 months supply of ARVs. Yet after the U.S funding suspension, some people are being sent home with just a handful of pills, making it even harder to adhere. Siyabonga from the Eastern Cape explains: #MoreARVPillsNow.
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In South Africa, nearly 2 million people living with HIV are still not on lifesaving HIV treatment — and worryingly many many people have started on treatment and then stopped. Ritshidze has docume...
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RT @iasociety: 🇿🇦 "The withdrawal of #PEPFAR supported NGOs from our clinics has led to the departure of 15,154 clinic staff. It is extre….
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The @budgetjusticesa will be co-hosting a Twitter (X) Space with @YouthCapitalSA at ⏰18:00 on Budget Day, Wednesday 📍19 Feb 2025 to unpack key highlights from #Budget2025. We’ll be diving into the major takeaways, discussing the implications, and engaging with the public on.
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[MEDIA ALERT🚨] BJC analysts will attend the #Budget2025 lockup and share their reactions on the day. @AIDC_RSA.@EElawcentre.@equal_education.@SECTION27news.@IlifaLabantwana.#budgetjustice
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RT @RHAPnews: PRESS RELEASE | South Africa’s health funding crisis presents an opportunity for a new approach to the budget. #Budget2025 .@….
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RT @Wits_SCIS: SCIS Thursday Seminar. REMINDER | Join Ngqabutho Nceku Mpofu, one of our Cameron Schrier Equality Fellows, he will present i….
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RT @HealthJusticeIn: Join us: . 10h00 @SAfmRadio with @CathyMohlahlana . We will be discussing the worrying implications of the Trump-US PE….
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Mkutano wa Africa, administered by the Treatment Action Campaign, looks to consolidate existing expertise on advocacy, strengthen the capacity of organizations and networks to do advocacy, and create a community of practice on how to advocate on HIV and other pandemic
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Mkutano wa Africa, administered by the Treatment Action Campaign, looks to consolidate existing expertise on advocacy, strengthen the capacity of organizations and networks to do advocacy, and create a community of practice on how to advocate on HIV and other pandemic
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RT @HealthJusticeIn: 🚨 Just in 🚨. Joint Statement 📄.Response to @CompComSA .SA Competition Commission Decision to Drop Investigation Agains….
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