Historical Organization
Treatment Action Campaign
Treatment Action Campaign
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Organization Timeline
The Treatment Action Campaign launches a demand for affordable care
📅 10 December 1998The Treatment Action Campaign launched on Human Rights Day, demanding affordable HIV treatment and action by government and pharmaceutical companies. Its founding statement linked preventable deaths...
Court orders wider access to HIV prevention
📅 5 July 2002The Constitutional Court held that restrictions on nevirapine for preventing mother-to-child transmission were unreasonable.
Treatment Action Campaign wins a key judgment
📅 5 July 2002The case backed demands that public facilities provide treatment where medically indicated.
A medicine access dispute reaches the highest court
📅 5 July 2002The ruling addressed government limits on providing nevirapine to pregnant women with HIV.
Constitutional rights shape public health policy
📅 5 July 2002The court linked access to health services with the state’s duty to take reasonable measures.
The Treatment Action Campaign wins a constitutional health-rights case
📅 5 July 2002The Constitutional Court ruled against restrictions on providing nevirapine to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission and required a reasonable programme. The Treatment Action Campaign combined...