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Contributor [1]
Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 03:00
Categories: 
Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
81 [3]
Article-Summary: 

AIDS activist group, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), is squaring up for another challenge to drug companies, this time around high prices being charged for life prolonging anti-retroviral medication. Activists will be joined by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), the Chemical and Energy Paper, Print, Wood and Allied Workers Union (CEPPAWU), People living with HIV/AIDS and a group of doctors and nurses who work at the coal face of the epidemic.
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AIDS activist group, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), is squaring up for another challenge to drug companies, this time around high prices being charged for life prolonging anti-retroviral medication. Activists will be joined by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), the Chemical and Energy Paper, Print, Wood and Allied Workers Union (CEPPAWU), People living with HIV/AIDS and a group of doctors and nurses who work at the coal face of the epidemic.
Related Link: http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.jsp?a=59&o=9320 [6]

Category: 
Food & Health [7]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/hivaids/10176 [8]
Country: 
South Africa [9]

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