TAC STATEMENT: UPDATE AND PLEASE SIGN ON

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We, the undersigned, condemn the violence inflicted upon the nonviolent

protesters demanding AIDS treatment in Queenstown, South Africa on July 12,

2005. According to the Treatment Action Campaign, police assaulted and then

opened fire with rubber bullets upon a group of demonstrators. Forty people

were injured, including ten who were treated for bullet wounds. Police then

shot tear gas at the fleeing demonstrators. We call for an immediate

investigation and the swift prosecution of those responsible for these crimes.

South Africans have a right to health care based on their own constitution.

They have a right to AIDS antiretroviral treatment and the right to demand it in

nonviolent protest. More than five million people are living with HIV/AIDS in

South Africa; at least 700,000 need treatment now. As of June 2005, only 110,000

were receiving it, including 50,000 through the public health system.

The campaign of TAC and other South African activists to get treatment for

their people cannot be stopped by these abusive tactics.

We will support them in this struggle every step of the way.

Viva TAC, viva!

ORGANIZATIONS

Jewish World Service

New York, NY

Advocates for Youth

Washington, DC 20036

AIDS Foundation Chicago

Chicago, IL USA

The Well Project

Charlottesville, VA USA

Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

Washington, DC USA

Mano a Mano

New York, NY USA

Onyango

KAIPPG Kenya

Mumias, Kenya

Michigan Positive Action Coalition (MI-Poz)

Detroit, MI USA

Latino Commission on AIDS

New York, NY USA

Colombian Lesbian and Gay Association (COLEGA)

Queens, NY USA

Campaign to End AIDS

New York, NY USA

South Africa Development Fund

Boston, MA USA

Wiessner

Aids Hilfe München

München, Germany

Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP)

New York, NY USA

ODYSEUS

Slovak Republic

Central and Eastern European Harm Reduction Network (CEEHRN)

Vilnius, Lithuania

Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU)

Budapest, Hungary

All Together

Lviv, Ukraine

Global AIDS Alliance

Washington, DC

Zimbabwe Activists against HIV/AIDS (ZAHA)

Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe

Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+), India.

UKC (UK Coalition of People Living with HIV and AIDS)

London, England

Positive Nation

London, England

HIV/AIDS Patients Survivors Union

San Francisco, CA USA

Towards Change, Nepal

Kathmandu, Nepal

Community of People Living with HIV/AIDS

Moscow, Russia

HIV/AIDS Legal Network

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Center for Heath and Gender Equity

Takoma Park, land USA

AIDSmeds.com

Brooklyn, NY USA

Housing Works

New York, NY USA

AIDS Action Baltimore

Baltimore, MD USA

Intersect Worldwide

New York, NY USA

International Harm Reduction Development Programme

part of the Open Society Institute

New York, NY USA

Association PLWHA " CREDINTA "

Republic Moldova

HIV Prevention Programme

Kekava, Latvia

International Council of AIDS Service Organizations

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

ACT UP East Bay

Oakland, CA USA

Middle East Childrens Alliance

Berkeley, CA USA

AIDS Survival Project

Atlanta, GA USA

Artists for a New South Africa

Los Angeles, CA USA

ACT UP Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA USA

AIDS Policy Project

Philadelphia, PA USA

AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Los Angeles, CA USA

Health GAP

New York, USA

AIDS-Care-Watch Campaign

Chiang Mai, Thailand

Associação dos Técnicos Agro-Pecuários (ATAP)

Maputo, Mozambique

Positive Malaysian Treatment Access and Advocacy Group

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

SIDACTION

Paris, France

Address : 228 rue du Faubourg St 75010 Paris

National Minority AIDS Council

Washington, DC USA

African Services Committee

New York, NY USA

National Association for Victims of Transfusion-Acquired AIDS

USA

ACT UP New York

New York, NY USA

Student Global AIDS Campaign

Washington, DC USA

Treatment Action Group

New York, NY USA

Women's Equity in Access to Care and Treatment

USA and Rwanda

Africa Action

Washington, DC USA

Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit

New Delhi, India

AIDS, Medicine & Miracles

San Francisco, CA USA

Agua Buena Human Rights Association

San , Costa Rica

European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG)

Brussels, Belgium

Grupo Português de Activistas sobre Tratamentos de VIH/SIDA (GAT)

Lisboa, Portugal

Foundation for Integrative AIDS Research (FIAR)

Brooklyn, NY, USA

Michigan Positive Action Coalition (MI-POZ)

Detroit, MI USA

KAIPPG International

Rhode Island, USA

KAIPPG Kenya

Mumias, Kenya

Hezekiah Bunde Nyaranga

Reach-Out children center

Kisumu, Kenya

This was not the best thing for a country to do to its

citizens. -Hezekiah.

INDIVIDUALS

Wiessner

Aids Hilfe München

München, Germany

Janet Feldman

Director, KAIPPG International

Rhode Island, USA

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Shaw

HIV/AIDS Patients Survivors Union

San Francisco, CA USA

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Dunwoody GA USA

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Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP)

New York, NY USA

Onyango

Exec. Director, KAIPPG Kenya

Mumias, Kenya

Pooja Mehta

Mount Sinai School of Medicine World AIDS Awareness Committee

New York, NY

Sonny Suchdev

New York, NY USA

Heaton

Center for Health and Gender Equity

Takoma Park, MD, USA

Jim Pickett

Director Public Policy, AIDS Foundation Chicago

Helen Miramontes, MSN, RN, FAAN

HIV/AIDS Consultant

North Las Vegas, NV, USA

Sawyer, cofounder

ACT Up NY

Housing Works

HealthGap

New York, NY

Virani

Brooklyn, NY

Agnès Fiamma

Regional Project Director

Community Based Voluntary Counseling and Testing

Individuals from Ukrainian NGO All Together:

Marina Rukova

Galina Kaminskaya

Mariya Kaminskaya

Nataliya Gyn'ko

Elena Malugina

Andrey Franc

Nelya Deduhina

Andres Duque, director

Mano a Mano

New York, USA

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AIDS Treatment News

Philadelphia, PA USA

Katarina Jiresova, MSW

ODYSEUS

Slovak Republic

Kaytee Riek

New York, NY, USA

M. Raspa, MPH, project manager

The Well Project

Charlottesville, VA

Dennis deLeon, president

Latino Commission on AIDS

New York, USA

Treena Orchard

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canda

Ilja Kondratjeff

PLWHA, " Pozitivnaja Iniciativa "

Russia, Orenburg.

Lucy Chesire, TB/HIV activist

Kenya

Albert Adalsteinsson, treatment advocate

Reykjavik, Iceland

Joe , medical student

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA, USA

Gregg Gonsalves

New York, NY

Sharon Gelman, executive director

Artists for a New South Africa

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Kamau

Kenya Treatment Access Movement (KETAM)

Ricky Tombing, general secretary; fellow

Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+);

ActionAid, International India PLWHA Fellowship Programme.

New Delhi, India

Debra Cohen

Toronto, Ontario

Kon Lezhentsev

International Harm Reduction Development Programme

Heilman, Mayor Pro Tem

City of West Hollywood

Eleanor J. Bader

Brooklyn, NY USA

Aleksandrs Molokovskis, coordinator

ITPC RAC and TIDES RPI

Kekava, Latvia

Ebony A. Baltimore

Washington, DC USA

Eddie Young

AIDS Survival Project

Atlanta, GA USA

Holy Horne

Astoria, NY USA

Zachary Rosner

USA

Terri M. Ford, director of International Advocacy

AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Los Angeles, CA USA

Cornutt

Atlanta, GA USA

Walsh, student

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Martha Tholanah

Harare, Zimbabwe

Shaun Mellors

HIV/AIDS Consultant and Trainer

Gender AIDS Forum

Durban, Republic of South Africa

Jim Seymour, Senior Research Fellow

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong, China

Dr. Gillian Morantz

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Ann Pozen

NAVTA, Inc

Bethesda, MD USA

Jeff Graham, executive director

AIDS Survival Project

Atlanta, GA USA

Dunn

San Francisco, CA

Carole Leach-Lemens

New York, NY USA

Dominica Mudota

Zimbabwe AIDS Network

Harare, Zimbabwe

Uhrig

Chiang Mai, Thailand

Oonagh O´Brien

ImpAct AIDS

Edinburgh, Scotland