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All-party AIDS group urged by activists

    JOHANNESBURG

    South African AIDS activists have urged political parties in the new parliament to form an all-party group on HIV/AIDS, a local newspaper, Business Day, reported.

    The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), in a recent electronic newsletter, said it did not want HIV/AIDS to become a party political issue.

    "We urge the African National Congress (ANC) to call all parties together in parliament and to form an all-party group on HIV/AIDS to ensure that legislation, regulation and constituency needs are addressed by all legislators," the TAC said.

    The group further stated that overwhelming electoral support for the ANC across the country represented an unequivocal mandate for the government to deliver meaningful social improvements.

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