Treatment Action Campaign

02/06/2026

TAC and Ritshidze welcome the target set by the Department of Health to enrol 1.5 million people on 6 month supply of ARVs by March 2027

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Johannesburg, 2 June 2026 – The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Ritshidze welcome the target set by the Department of Health to enrol 1.5 million people on 6 month supply of ARVs by March 2027. The target was stated by the Department of Health in a recent article in Spotlight. For those enrol...

27/05/2026

TAC will not be attending the “Conference of the Left”, being convened by the South African Communist Party (SACP).

As always, TAC remains independent from any political parties and our primary responsibility remains to serve the interests of our members and other users of the public healthcare system.

Johannesburg, 27 May 2026 – The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) will not be attending the “Conference of the Left”, being convened by the South African Communist Party (SACP). An invitation was sent to TAC on 4 May 2026 to attend the event. Before we responded, our name had already been inclu...

26/05/2026

Today TAC's National Chairperson Sibongile Tshabalala will join Union Against Hunger and partners for a World Hunger Day Media Briefing to discuss rising food prices, inequality, food insecurity, and the growing call for accountability from both government and the private sector.

Join today at 11:00 – 12:30
💻 Live stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/UH4LaqN9Khs

A media briefing by the Union Against Hunger

10/12/2025

Today TAC turns 27.

Over the years we have had many victories – and this should be celebrated.

But the struggle is not over... We must keep on fighting. We must fight and fight until the bitter end.

Phambili maqabane!

09/12/2025

Since the early days, TAC has been committed to teaching the science and treatment of HIV. It became one of our strongest tools in mobilising the masses to demand treatment.

Today, TAC’s flagship treatment literacy programme remains key to our model of highly informed grassroots activism.

Going door to door, mobilising in communities, and carrying out health talks at clinics are all ways to ensure that people are informed about how and why they should adhere to ARVs if they are living with HIV – or how to prevent getting HIV if they aren’t.

As we finish up for 2025, here’s a recap on the TAC members carrying out this important work through the year...

09/12/2025

In February 2025, the government announced plans to get 1.1 million more people living with HIV on – or back on – treatment. This was in response to South Africa falling far behind global targets to ensure 95% of people diagnosed with HIV are on ARVs.

TAC has been supporting the “Close the Gap” campaign in communities across the country. Our teams brought thousands of people back to facilities to help them start or restart their ARVs.

But if the health department doesn’t fix conditions at the clinic that made people avoid going in the first place – how long until the people who have been found stop going back? We are mopping up, but we haven’t switched off the tap.

Check out our latest Ritshidze report released on World AIDS Day that reveals the state of our HIV response and the failures in the health system that cause people to stop treatment.

FULL REPORT:https://ritshidze.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Ritshidze-National-State-of-Health-December-2025.pdf

01/12/2025

This World AIDS Day we are calling for the Deputy President and Minister of Health to take leadership – and hold provinces accountable to actually fix the crisis in our health system. Nothing will change if district and provincial health officials are in denial about the issues we keep on raising. They must use Ritshidze’s reports as an early warning system to quickly respond to the challenges we see on the ground

30/11/2025

Today’s Ritshidze report tells us:

- Critical staffing shortages persist
- Lengthy delays continue to frustrate people
- Disastrous state of paper filing systems, add to delays
- More people reported getting a 3 month supply of ARVs – but 6 month supply rollout out very slow
- Fewer sites report challenges with HIV testing, but still low numbers tested
- Lack of care and support persists for people living with HIV, people who use drugs, s*x workers, and the LGBTQIA+ community
- Increase in denial of services
- Critical HIV prevention tools either missing, withheld, or not offered to those who could benefit

This is a snapshot of core reasons why people struggle to stay on ARVs, or avoid getting an HIV test or accessing HIV prevention. Instead of feeling more in control of your own health, clinic visits can be frustrating and time wasting. All of this drives people out of the health system, undermining the National Department of Health goal to get 1.1 million people on, or back on, treatment.

30/11/2025

What does the latest round of Ritshidze’s community-led monitoring in October and November 2025 tell us?

Read the full report here:https://ritshidze.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Ritshidze-National-State-of-Health-December-2025.pdf

30/11/2025

Today we are in Makgwabe in Limpopo ahead of . We are about to kick off our community meeting with the Minister of Health presenting a BRAND NEW Ritshidze report. TAC is calling on the South African government to urgently fix the ongoing crisis in our clinics. Without addressing the persistent challenges at the frontline of the HIV response, people will continue to be lost from care at unacceptable rates.

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Makgwabe, 30 November 2025 – To mark World AIDS Day 2025, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) is calling on the South African government to urgently fix the ongoing crisis in our clinics. Without addressing the persistent challenges at the frontline of the HIV response, people will continue to be...