Tac
Health Care in Cape Town

More than 16,000 members, 267 branches and 72 full time staff members, TAC has become the leading civil society force behind comprehensive hea.
TAC has held government accountable for health care service delivery; campaigned against official AIDS denialism; challenged the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies to make treatment more affordable and cultivated community leadership on HIV and AIDS.

Working for access to quality public healthcare in South Africa since Today the TAC continues to represent users of the public healthcare system in South Africa, and to campaign and litigate on critical issues related to the quality of and access to healthcare. The organisation currently has over 8,000 members and a network of 182 branches and provincial offices in seven of South Africa’s nine provinces. Members elect the leadership of the organisation, which ensures accountability and that the TAC’s policies reflect the realities on the ground. Through its branches and members the TAC monitors thousands of clinics and hospitals. Its members are the people who need the public health system to work, so they are the first to notice when it doesn’t. In addition to the large national campaigns, the local activism of the TAC’s members is the true life-blood of the organisation. By organising locally, our members demand accountability and quality healthcare services where the services are actually delivered. A unified quality health care system which provides equal access to HIV prevention and treatment services for all people. To ensure that every person living with HIV has access to quality comprehensive prevention and treatment services to live a healthy life. to inform and support national advocacy efforts through its branches, providing a platform for people to mobilise and organise around HIV and related health rights. With more than 16,000 members, 267 branches and 72 full time staff members, TAC has become the leading civil society force behind comprehensive hea lth care services for people living with HIV&AIDS in South Africa. Since 1998, TAC has held government accountable for health care service delivery; campaigned against official AIDS denialism; challenged the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies to make treatment more affordable and cultivated community leadership on HIV and AIDS. Our efforts have resulted in many life-saving interventions, including the implementation of country-wide mother-to-child transmission prevention and antiretroviral treatment programmes. For our efforts TAC has received world-wide acclaim and numerous international accolades, including a nomi nation for a Nobel Peace Prize in Community Health Advocacy (CHA): TAC’s CHA programme strengthens awareness of and advocates for greater access to comprehensive HIV and TB prevention, treatment, care and support services, including social referral services, at a grass-roots community level. The CHA programme also provides leadership and advocacy training to people living with HIV/AIDS, communities, partners and individuals in order to encourage and support social and community mobilisation aimed at increasing access to and uptake of HIV and TB-related health services. Campaign for equitable access to affordable treatment for all people with HIV/AIDS. Campaign for and support the prevention and elimination of all new HIV infections. Promote and sponsor legislation to ensure equal access to social services for and equal treatment of all people with HIV/AIDS. Challenge by means of litigation, lobbying, advocacy and all forms of legitimate social mobilisation, any barrier or obstacle, including unfair discrimination, that limits access to treatment for HIV/AIDS in the private and public sector. Educate, promote and develop an understanding and commitment within all communities of developments in HIV/AIDS treatment. Train and develop a representative and effective leadership of people living with HIV/AIDS on the basis of equality and non-discrimination irrespective of race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, sex, socio-economic status, nationality, marital status or any other ground. Campaign for an effective regional and global network comprising of organisations with similar aims and objectives.