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AIDS activists want legal fees from government

    JOHANNESBURG

    Lawyers representing the South African AIDS activists, Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), confronted the health department in court this week over Annexure A, an unpublished timetable for the government's free AIDS drug plan.

    TAC treatment literacy coordinator Sipho Mthati told the UN news service PlusNews: "This is the culmination of a long process, where we've been trying to get information from the ministry of health about the plan on comprehensive care and treatment."

    The group requested that the court make the department pay for legal costs incurred in their efforts to see the document.

    Official figures show that of the 53,000 people targeted for treatment by March next year, only 11,200 currently have access to the free drugs.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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