TAC to take govt to court
21/08/2001 15:56  - (SA)  

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Cape Town - The HIV/Aids lobby group Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) said on Tuesday that it was taking the government to court over the lack of a national plan to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child.

TAC said that the application was launched in the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday.

It said Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang and the nine provincial health MECs were listed as respondents.

TAC last year threatened to take the government to court over its refusal to make the anti-retroviral Nevirapine - used for transmission prevention - freely available in state facilities.

It withdrew the threat when the department of health announced that Nevirapine pilot sites were to be set up in each province.

However TAC said it has now become clear the sites are inadequate.

It is demanding that the government institute a "comprehensive programme across the country to reduce mother-to-child HIV transmission".

- SAPA

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