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AIDS group continues legal battle with government

    JOHANNESBURG

    South African AIDS NGO, Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), has dismissed claims that its dropped legal action against the health department.

    The department said at the weekend that TAC had decided to withdraw its action for the provision of certain annexes to the government's Comprehensive Plan for Management, Care and Treatment of HIV/AIDS.

    TAC spokesman Mark Heywood said on Monday the group's action remained as the health department was legally bound to have an AIDS implementation plan and to make it public.

    He said the group would go to court on 4 November to argue that the government should pay punitive costs, in view of the numerous occasions between February and September 2004 when it had failed to provide certain information to the TAC.

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