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AIDS lobby group continues campaign

    JOHANNESBURG

    South Africa's National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS (NAPWA) on Friday continued its campaign against local pharmaceutical companies after a temporary suspension.

    NAPWA recently suspended its "Black Easter" campaign pending talks with drug manufacturers to provide free antiretrovirals to disadvantaged and unemployed HIV-positive people.

    However, NAPWA said in a statement that its new four-day fast would show the group's dissatisfaction with the outcome of the meeting.

    Meanwhile, twelve NAPWA members appeared briefly in a local magistrate's court on charges of trespassing on the premises of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association.

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