Treatment Action Campaign

Litigation

• HIV is a virus, not a crime: Criminal statutes and criminal prosecutions – help or hindrance?-

  XVII International AIDS Conference
  Mexico City

  View a webcast of this speech at the kaisernetwork.

• Victory against the SANDF in HIV Discrimination Case-

  Statement by the AIDS Law Project

  The AIDS Law Project (ALP) is pleased to announce the successful conclusion of its litigation against the SANDF's policy of excluding HIV positive people from recruitment, external deployment and promotion. It is a vindication of the Constitution and should be seen as having significance not only for the military in South Africa, but internationally. The order means that:

• Complaint to the South African Human Rights Commission against MEC of Health for Kwazulu-Natal-

  The AIDS Law Project, acting on behalf of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society, the Rural Doctors Association of Southern Africa and the Treatment Action Campaign has made a submission to the South African Human Rights Commission requesting an investigation into human rights violations committed by the MEC for Health in KwaZulu-Natal, Ms Peggy Nkonyeni. The submission also addresses actions by her staff.

  Read the Complaint.

   

• ALP challenges constitutionality of the SANDF ban on HIV-positive soldiers-

  The AIDS Law Project has brought a case against the South African National Defence Force on behalf of the South African Security Forces Union (SASFU) and three individuals with HIV who have been discriminated against. The case will be heard in the Pretoria High Court on 15 to 16 May 2008.

• AIDS Law Project statement: Defend ethical doctors from unethical politicians-

  AIDS Law Project Press Statement, 9 May 2008, For Immediate Release

  DEFEND ETHICAL DOCTORS FROM UNETHICAL POLITICIANS
  DR MALCOLM NAUDE GOES TO LABOUR COURT TO CHALLENGE DISMISSAL IN 2001 FOR PROVIDING ARVs TO RAPE SURVIVORS

• Access to Information (Annexure A) Case-