AIDS group threatens bigger demonstrations

A South African AIDS lobby group looks set to resume its civil disobedience campaign against the government, local newspaper The Star reported on Monday. The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) recently suspended protest actions demanding that the government provide a national treatment plan for all people living with HIV/AIDS. At the time, TAC said this was done "to give the government the space and opportunity to commit, on its own terms, to a treatment and prevention plan which included antiretroviral therapy". However, with little change since its April suspension of active campaigning, TAC said the subsequent return to civil disobedience would be more intense than before. A final decision on reactivating the campaign could arise at TAC's national congress, due to take place within the next two weeks.