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		20 August 2001
		TAC announces its intention to take Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang to court with a constitutional challenge over her failure to implement a programme on PMTCT.

Beat It! 2002 Episode 3 - Support Group In this episode the Beat It! Support Group discussed mother-to-child-transmission of HIV and we sat in on a TAC press conference in which the organisation said it would be taking the Minister of Health to court in order to force her to implement a national programme for the prevention of mother-to-child-transmission.

~20-08-2001

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PMTCT success story

2002 - Ep. 3 - In this insert we meet up with support group member, Bongiwe, and we see how ARVs helped her not to infect her unborn child with HIV. We also see how Bongiwe and numerous others through TAC took on the government to make this life-saving prevention method universally available in South Africa.  

20 August 2001

Beat It! 2002 Episode 3 - Support Group

PMTCT success story