THE Treatment Action Campaign’s (TAC) battle with the government over its
antiretroviral programme is set to continue in the Constitutional Court on
Monday.
The 11 judges are to hear argument from counsel for the University of the
Western Cape’s Community Law Centre, the Institute for Democracy in SA and
Cotlands Baby Sanctuary.
These organisations have joined the TAC in support of the Pretoria High
Court judgment ordering a roll-out of the government nevirapine programme as
”friends of the court”.
The court is also to hear argument from counsel for KwaZulu-Natal Premier
Lionel Mtshali.
The court is hearing the appeal of Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
and seven health MECs against a Pretoria High Court judgment ordering them
to make the drug available to all HIV-positive pregnant women where
medically indicated and where the women have been tested and counselled. –
Sapa