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Constitutional Court of South Africa
Constitutional Court of South Africa
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Organization Timeline
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...
Abahlali wins a constitutional challenge to the Slums Act
📅 14 October 2009The Constitutional Court declared section 16 of KwaZulu-Natal's Slums Act invalid following a challenge by Abahlali baseMjondolo. The provision threatened to intensify eviction pressure. The...