The TAC’s newly re-elected national chairperson Sibongile Tshabalala says her focus will be on growing the TAC’s international solidarity, boosting its effectiveness on the ground and at district level and building more women’s leadership.
The Treatment Action Campaign — having held its seventh national congress and reflecting on 24 years of historic achievements — knows its mission to getmuch to be done”, saysThe right to access health services, found in Section 27 of our Constitution, is arguably one of the most important rights because without health we are unable to do much. Since it was founded in 1998, the community-led Treatment Action Campaign has been campaigning for everyone to have equitable access to healthcare.
Measurably the TAC’s impact has led to millions of lives saved in South Africa, which has the highest HIV/Aids infection rates in the world. Treatment Action Campaign members spend the night in protest outside the office of Gauteng Premier David Makhura on Tuesday, 10 August 2021. , more than 70 TAC members slept for two days on the pavement outside Gauteng premier David Makhura’s office, following a protest that featured them holding a coffin symbolising the many deaths occurring at the hands of the department. This demonstrated their willingness to put even their bodies on the line for the rights of ordinary South Africans.
“The TAC’s role in community-led monitoring through the Ritshidze Project is critical. This needs to be scaled so that we grow community monitoring and ensure that the people actually using the public health system have an effective way to feed back what is not going right, what they want… without the TAC, that can play that role between individual users and government, people’s voices won’t be heard.
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