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...faced, and lost, a major challenge to its policy. The country's leading AIDS activist movement, the Treatment Action Campaign, secured a High Court order compelling the Health Ministry to make nevirapine available at all public hospitals and clinics. The government appealed against the judgement, but last month the TAC renewed its pressure, suing to make the government allow all state doctors to prescribe neviraprine where necessary...
...same time the AIDS rebels hit on another front. The tac's chairman, Zackie Achmat, went to Brazil to obtain a consignment of cheap, generic antiretroviral drugs for a program of treatment of 85 HIV/AIDS victims, adults and children, in the black township of Khayelitsha, outside of Cape Town. Achmat's shopping trip to Brazil was in open defiance of South Africa's patents law. "Potentially we face a civil action from the drugs companies," said Achmat last week. "We'll just have to wait and see." But public opinion is so firmly behind the activists that drugmakers in South...
...Ministers of the three countries said armed rebels caught within their respective borders would be repatriated. SOUTH AFRICA Mbeki Challenged AIDS activists and doctors filed a suit in Pretoria's High Court to force the government to provide anti-HIV drugs in all public hospitals. The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) accused the government of violating the country's constitution by failing to distribute the drug nevirapine to HIV-positive mothers on a national basis. TAC says such action might save the lives of about 35,000 newborn babies a year. UNITED STATES Make Peace or We'll Keep This Chagall...
...Well," someone shouted, "you could be Jewish. You're hairy and hung like a Tic-Tac...
...wont to say, we had CB jackets with Freaky Freazies inside. No need for smart wool jackets or canvas my-first-briefcases. We'd wrap a sheet of strawberry Fruit Roll Up around our index finger, then lick. Eeew. Anna stuck a tic tac up her nose. (The school nurse used tweezers to dislodge the one-calorie mint...