• November 13, 2003. AIDS Healthcare Foundation press release. Glaxo to Face AIDS Lawsuit.
• November 13, 2003. Wambui Chege for Reuters. U.S. group to sue Glaxo S.Africa over AIDS drugs.
• November 13, 2003. Zoubair Ayoob for News 24. Glaxo to face Aids lawsuit.

• TAC Documents
  • Briefing On the Civil Disobedience Campaign.
  • Frequently Asked Questions
  • April 7, 2003. Zachie Achmat, published in the Mail and Guardian. The long walk to civil disobedience.
  • March 20, 2003. Civil Disobedience Campaign Begins Today.
• Health GAP Documents
  • February 7, 2003. Letter to Dr. Dlamini-Zuma and Deputy President Zuma.
  • Page on the Civil Disobedience Campaign.
• News Stories
  • May 1, 2003. UN Integrated Regional Information Network. Chronology of HIV/AIDS treatment access row.
  • April 2, 2003. Elliot Sylvester for the Associated Press. Infected AIDS activist won't take disease-fighting drugs until South Africa provides them to all.
  • March 27, 2003. Trevor Oosterwyk for the Independent. Achmat challenges ANC to Aids debate.
  • March 27, 2003. The Advocate. South African civil disobedience campaign targets health minister.
  • March 26, 2003. Jo-Anne Smetherham for the Mercury. Time for hugs is over, TAC tells Manto.
  • March 25, 2003. UN Integrated Regional Information Networks. Aids Activists Shout Down Health Minister.
  • March 25, 2003. Ben Maclennan for the Independent. TAC disrupts Manto's speech.
  • March 24, 2003. Michael Carter for AIDS Map. South African HIV treatment activists start civil disobedience programme.
  • March 21, 2003. Associated Press. Bitter Fight Over AIDS in South Africa.
  • March 21, 2003. Associated Press. AIDS activists target 2 South African officials.
  • March 20, 2003. Anthony Stoppard for the Inter-Press News Service. We Will Break the Law to Get Free Drugs - AIDS Activists.
  • March 20, 2003. Associated Press. AIDS activists charge ministers in South Africa with manslaughter.
  • March 19, 2003. Linda Ensor and Wyndham Hartley for Business Day. Minister slams calls for AIDS drugs.

• July 30, 2002. South Africa Press Association. Madiba Asks Mbeki for AIDS Talk.
• July 29, 2002. Chris McGreal for the Guardian. Mandela hits again at president's Aids policy.
• July 29, 2002. Tehran Times. Mandela Seeks to Save S. Africa AIDS Activist.
• July 28, 2002. Barnaby Philips for the BBC News. Mandela backs SA Aids protest.
• July 27, 2002. South African Press Association. Mandela to Take Up Aids Drugs With President Mbeki.
• July 27, 2002. Voice of America News. Mandela to Raise AIDS Drugs Issue with President Mbeki.

This is a British-owned mining company with 160,000 employees in South Africa (of which 21% are estimated to be HIV+). It had previously planned to provide antiretrovirals to its workers, but then renounced the plans, saying it could not afford to carry out its original plan. On July 25, 2002, AngloGold annouced that it had reached a "comprehensive agreement" with its unions on an HIV policy, but the annoucement does not say it will provide antiretrovirals, or even restart its study of the feasibility of doing this.

On August 6, however, the company made the annoucement that it would begin provide HIV treatment, including antiretroviral therapy to its HIV+ workers. It was followed by a similar announcement from De Beers, which hopes to roll out their program in January, 2003. (For more information on an activist campaign to convince multinational corporations to provide treatment - including antiretrovirals - to its employees with HIV/AIDS, see www.treat-your-workers.org. The campaign is a project of HealthGAP and ACT-UP.)

Statements
• August 14, 2002. HealthGAP press release. AIDS activists respond to DeBeers', Anglo's commitment to treat HIV-positive miners - call on Coca-Cola to treat workers with HIV.
• August 12, 2002. De Beers press release. De Beers to provide access to HIV/AIDS Anti-Retroviral Treatment.
• August 6, 2002 Anglo American press release. Anglo American announces further steps in its HIV/AIDS strategy providing anti-retroviral therapy to employees with HIV/AIDS.
• July 25, 2002. AngloGold press release. AngloGold signs comprehensive agreement with Unions on HIV/Aids.
• October 11, 2001. International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and Workers' Unions press release. Anglo American Called Racist after AIDS Drug Betrayal
• News Stories
  • August 17, 2002. Julia Finch for the Guardian. Anglo calls for help on Aids.
  • August 15, 2002. Brendan Boyle for Reuters. Manto slams Anglo's Aids plan.
  • August 8, 2002. Sherilee Bridge for South Africa Business Report. TAC urges corporates to follow Anglo's lead.
  • August 7, 2002. Tamar Kahn for Business Day. Anglo to Give Workers Free HIV/Aids Drugs.
  • July 26, 2002. James Lamont for the Financial Times. Gold producers act on HIV.
  • October 10, 2001. Financial Times. Anglo American balks at HIV drug costs in S Africa.

On March 13, 2001, South African Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said that South Africa will not declare AIDS a national emergency, a move which could accelerate the introduction of lower-priced generic pharmaceutical drugs into the nation. This announcement comes two days after Dr. Ayanda Ntsalubae, the head of the South African Department of Health, told Bobby Jordan of the Sunday Johannesburg Times that the South African was considering such a move.

• March 14, 2001. Letter from Treatment Access Campaign Chairperson Zachie Achmat to the South African President, Minister of Health and all Members of Parliament, concerning the development of a treatment plan and the declaration of a health emergency.
• News Stories
  • March 15, 2001. Jon Jeter for the Washington Post. South Africa Resists Call for AIDS 'Emergency.'
  • March 14, 2001. Adele Shevel for the Independent. AIDS Rivals As Odd Bedfellows
  • March 13, 2001. Reuters. South Africa not declaring AIDS a national emergency
  • March 13, 2001. Business Day. Hope for HIV/AIDS emergency call dims.
  • March 12, 2001. Karen MacGregor in the Independent. Mbeki set to declare national emergency over Aids.
  • March 12, 2001. Rachel Swarns in the New York Times. South Africa May Cite Crisis to Lower Cost of AIDS Drugs.
  • March 11, 2001. Bobby Jordan in the Johannesburg Sunday Times. Mbeki investigates declaring a national emergency on HIV/AIDS to secure cheap drugs.

• September 2001. South African Medical Research Council The impact of HIV/AIDS on adult mortality in South Africa.
• March 16, 2001. A group of 600 Yale University researchers petitions their school "to permit a generic version of its patented anti-retroviral drug d4T to be imported and distributed in South Africa." See their press release, Yale Researchers demand that University, Bristol-Meyers Squibb give up patent rights to AIDS drug.

• February 11, 2005. Sarah Bosely for the Guardian. South Africa told to admit size of Aids crisis.
• August 23, 2004. UN Integrated Regional Information Networks. Thousands Set to Benefit From US Aids Initiative.
• May 11, 2004. Terry Bell for the IOL Business Report. SA lives or US kudos? That's the burning question.
• April 8, 2004. Andrew Quinn for Reuters. Merck Grants South Africa License for Generic Efavirenz.
• April 8, 2004. Tamar Kahn for Business Day. Merck Gives SA Firm Rights to Key AIDS Drug.
• April 1, 2004. Richard Morin for the Washington Post. A Wave of Death, Surging Higher.
• March 25, 2004. The Economist. Me Too - Welcome new investment in the generic drug industry.
• January 17, 2004. Sydney Morning Herald. Slash drug charges, firms told.
• January 16, 2004. South African Press Association. Drug price ruling may be shot in the arm for medical aids.
• January 16, 2004, Caiphus Kgosana, Baldwin Ndaba, Bruce Venter and Jillian Green for the South African Press Association. Pricing structure a blow to pharmacies.
• January 16, 2004. South African Press Association. New drug plan may shut down manufacturers.
• November 24, 2003. Anne-Marie O'Connor for the LA Times. S. African AIDS activist makes a striking impact.
• June 23, 2003. Quentin Wray for the Business Report Cheap anti-Aids drugs are legal - Wits.
• April 7, 2003. UN Integrated Regional Information Networks. Cheaper Aids Drugs to Be Made Locally.
• February 23, 2003. Adele Shevel in the Sunday Times. Sweeping legislative changes are aimed at stabilising healthcare costs.
• February 20, 2003. Kaiser News Network. About 41% of South Africa's Prison Population is HIV-Positive, Study Says.
• January 28, 2003. Michael Grunwald for the Washington Post. In Echo of Apartheid Fight, Public Pushes S. Africa on AIDS.
• January 15, 2003. Financial Times. Glaxosmithkline Meeting Fruitful: Napwa.
• January 13, 2003. Tina Rosenberg for the New York Times. A Hero Measured by the Advance of a Deadly Disease. (Op-ed about Zachie Achmat of TAC.)
• January 2, 2003. South African Press Association. Aids activists end protest at drug firm.
• October 31, 2002. Linda Ensor for Business Day. PMA: "Patents Bill Could Erode Confidence."
• October 17, 2002. Reuters. South Africa Asks for More Time on AIDS Drug Policy.
• October 10, 2002. Associated Press. South Africa May Provide AIDS Medicine.
• August 27, 2002. Vernon Wessels for South Africa's Business Report. Aspen to Offer Competitively Priced Antiretroviral Drugs.
• August 26, 2002. Ling Wu Kong for the Earth Times. South Africa criticized in NGO Session for Inaction in the issue of HIV/AIDS.