{"id":11069,"date":"2003-05-01T14:46:18","date_gmt":"2003-05-01T14:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=11069"},"modified":"2014-05-28T13:06:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T13:06:44","slug":"south-africa-treatment-protests-go-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/11069","title":{"rendered":"South Africa treatment protests go global"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Graham McKerrow, HIV i-Base<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>International protest is being mobilised to protest globally against the South African government\u2019s refusal to provide universal HIV\/Aids treatment to its citizens. Some activists spoke with mock nostalgia about returning to picket South African embassies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has launched a campaign of civil disobedience in South Africa to back their demand for a comprehensive treatment plan, said its spokesman Nonkosi Khumalo. They are calling for international demonstrations of support. Khumalo said ANC leaders were showing some arrogance in their attitude towards its campaign.<\/p>\n<p>TAC is taking Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang and Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin, to court, accusing them of culpable homicide for failing to use state resources to fight the epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>Khumalo said protests including sit-ins at government buildings were planned. One hundred and sixty people were arrested at a protest in Cape Town, but the Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal branches of TAC report no arrests because police had refused to arrest people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the next phase of our protests, we are looking at importing generic drugs ourselves and giving them to doctors at public hospitals,\u201d said Khumalo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graham McKerrow, HIV i-Base International protest is being mobilised to protest globally against the South African government\u2019s refusal to provide universal HIV\/Aids treatment to its citizens. Some activists spoke with mock nostalgia about returning to picket South African embassies. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-treatment-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}