FINAL: TAC Solidarity Statement

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Hi,

Below is the TAC solidarity statement, with many new signers. PLEASE

DISTRIBUTE far and wide,including to your press lists: TAC's situation has

received little media coverage.

In solidarity,

Krauss

International Statement of Solidarity

July 21, 2005

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 obtain AIDS 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

Acción Solidaria

Caracas, Venezuela

ACT UP East Bay

Oakland, CA USA

ACT UP New York

New York, NY USA

ACT UP Paris

Paris, France

ACT UP Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA USA

Action Group for Health, Human Rights and HIV/AIDS (AGHA)

Kampala, Uganda

Actwid Kongadzem

Bamenda, Cameroon

Advocates for Youth

Washington, DC USA

Affordable Medicines and Treatment Campaign

New Delhi, India

Africa Action

Washington, DC USA

African Services Committee

New York, NY USA

Agua Buena Human Rights Association

San , Costa Rica

AID FOR AIDS International (AFA)

Brasil, Chile, República Dominicana, Peru, Venezuela

AIDES

Pantin, France

AIDS ACCESS Foundation

Bangkok, Thailand

AIDS Action Baltimore

Baltimore, MD, USA

Aids Fonds / STOP AIDS NOW!

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

AIDS Foundation Chicago

Chicago, IL, USA

AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Aids Hilfe München

München, Germany

AIDS, Medicine & Miracles

San Francisco, CA USA

AIDS Policy Project

Philadelphia, PA USA

AIDS Survival Project

Atlanta, GA USA

AIDS Treatment News

Philadelphia, PA USA

AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC)

New York, NY USA

AIDS-Care-Watch Campaign

Chiang Mai, Thailand

AIDSmeds.com

Brooklyn, NY USA

AIZHI Action Project

Beijing, China

All Together

Lviv, Ukraine

All-Ukrainian Network of PLWH

Kiev, Ukraine

American Medical Student Association

Reston, VA USA

Association de Lutte Contre le SIDA (ALCS)

Morocco

Artists for a New South Africa

Los Angeles, CA USA

Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS (ABIA)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Associação Goiana de Gays, Lésbicas e Travestis

Goiânia / GO, Brazil

Associação dos Técnicos Agro-Pecuários (ATAP)

Maputo, Mozambique

Association African Solidarité (AAS)

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Assocation Bomoyi

Brazzaville, Congo-Brazzaville

Avenir Sans SIDA

Brazzaville, Congo-Brazzaville

Belaku Trust

Bangalore, India

Association SunAids

Douala, Cameroon

Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Capital Area Vaccine Effort

Washington, DC USA

Casa Servo de Deus / Associação Monte Sinai

Guarapari, Espirito Santo, Brazil

Center for Heath and Gender Equity

Takoma Park, land USA

Central and Eastern European Harm Reduction Network (CEEHRN)

Vilnius, Lithuania

Centro de Educação Sexual (CEDUS)

Rio de Janeiro / RJ, Brazil

Club “Svitanok”

Donetsk, Ukraine

Credinta

Republic Moldova

Colombian Lesbian and Gay Association (COLEGA)

Queens, NY USA

Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP)

New York, NY USA

Community of People Living with HIV/AIDS

Moscow, Russia

Condoms for Life Campaign

Washington, DC USA

Consejo Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Organizaciones con Servicio en SIDA

Caracas, Venezuela

Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+)

New Delhi, India

Difaem - German Institute for Medical Mission

Tübingen, Germany

Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance

Geneva, Switzerland

Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation

Washington, DC USA

Elton AIDS Foundation

London, UK

Espoir, Vie & Solidarite (EVIS)

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG)

Brussels, Belgium

European Colation for Just and Effective Drug Policies (ENCOD)

Antwerp, Belgium

Federação de Bandeirantes do Brasil

Sao o, Brazil

Fondation Femme Plus

Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo

Forum Goiano

Goiânia / GO - Brazil

Fórum ONG/AIDS do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Foundation for Integrative AIDS Research (FIAR)

Brooklyn, NY, USA

FrontAIDS

Russia

Fundacion Huellas+

Quito, Ecuador

GAPA Florianopolis SC

Florianopolis / SC, Brazil

GESTOS - Soropositivity, Communication and Gender Issue

Recife / PE, Brazil

GITIB, Inc.

Ozazmiz City, Philippines

Global AIDS Alliance

Washington, DC

Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+)

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Gram Bharati Samiti (GBS)

Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Grupo Pela Vidda

Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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

Lisboa, Portugal

Harvard Medical School AIDS Action Initiative

Cambridge, MA

Health & Development Networks

Thailand and Ireland

Health Action International (HAI), Africa

Nairobi, Kenya

Health GAP

New York, USA

HIV i-Base

London, UK

HIV/AIDS Patients Survivors Union

San Francisco, CA USA

HIV/AIDS Task Force

Africa Japan Forum

Tokyo, Japan

HIV Prevention Programme

Kekava, Latvia

Housing Works

New York, NY USA

Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU)

Budapest, Hungary

Instituto Romañach

Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Interchurch Organisation for Development ation (ICCO)

Utrecht, The Netherlands

International AIDS Society (IAS)

Geneva, Switzerland

The International Community of Women Living with HIV and AIDS (ICW)

London, UK

International Council of AIDS Service Organizations (ICASO)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

International Harm Reduction Development Programme

part of the Open Society Institute

New York, NY USA

International Lesbian and Gay Law Association

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Intersect Worldwide

New York, USA & South Africa

Intimate Friends International

Bamenda, Cameroon

Italian Community Advisory Board (I-CAB)

Bologna, Italy

Italian League for fighting against AIDS (LILA)

Torino, Italy

Jewish World Service

New York, NY

Kalungu HIV/AIDS Information Centre

Kalungu, Masaka, Uganda

KAIPPG/Kenya (Kenya AIDS Intervation Prevention Project Group)

Mumias, Kenya

KAIPPG International

Rhode Island, USA

Latino Commission on AIDS

New York, NY USA

Lawyers Collective HIV/AIDS Unit

New Delhi, India

Les Batisseurs

Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Manipur Network of Positive People (MNP+)

Imphal, India

Mano a Mano

New York, NY USA

Mas Vida

La Paz, Bolivia

McGill Global AIDS Coalition

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Michigan Positive Action Coalition (MI-POZ)

Detroit, MI USA

Middle East Childrens Alliance

Berkeley, CA USA

Mindanao Working Group on Reproductive Health, Gender and Sexuality

Ateneo de Davao University

Davao City, Philippines

National Assocation of People living with HIV/AIDS (NAPWA)

Sydney, Australia

National Association of PLWHA in Nepal (NAP+N)

Kathmandu, Nepal

National Association for Victims of Transfusion-Acquired AIDS

USA

National Empowerment Network of PLWHA in Kenya (NEPHAK)

Nairobi, Kenya

National Minority AIDS Council

Washington, DC USA

Nava Kiran Plus

Kathmandu, Nepal

Network of African People living with HIV/AIDS (NAP+)

Pan-African

Network of Zambian People living with HIV/AIDS (NZP+)

Lusaka, Zambia

ODYSEUS

Slovak Republic

Physicians For Human Rights

Boston, MA USA

Positive Action Foundation Philippines, Inc. (PAFPI)

Manila, Philippines

Positive Malaysian Treatment Access and Advocacy Group (MTAAG+)

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Positive Nation

London, UK

Priority Africa Network

Berkeley, CA USA

Projeto Ouça…Aprenda…Viva

Campanha Mundial de Prevenção as IST/AIDS

Federação de Bandeirantes do Brasil

Brazil

Proyecto de Vida

Acariga, Estado Portuguesa, Venezuela

Rajasthan Intersect Coalition

Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Reach-Out Children Center

Kisumu, Kenya

RedLa+ (Latin American Network of PLWHA)

Reproductive Health Matters

London, UK

Ruban Rouge Côte d'Ivoire

Abidjan, Ivory Coast

SIDACTION

Paris, France

SIDA ZERO

Libreville, Gabon

SOA

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Solidarity and Action Against The HIV Infection In India

Chennai & Calcutta, India and Chicago, USA

South Africa Development Fund

Boston, MA USA

Southern African Network of AIDS Service Organisations (SANASO)

Pan-African

Stop AIDS Campaign

London, UK

Students Against Global AIDS

Canada

Strategies for Hope

Oxford, UK

Student Global AIDS Campaign

Washington, DC USA

Student Global AIDS Campaign

Princeton University (included in national group, but signed on separately)

Support & Treatment for OVCs and HIV positiveS (STS)

Pointe Noire, Congo-Brazzaville

Survive AIDS

San Francisco, CA USA

Synthesis

Athens, Greece

Towards Change

Kathmandu, Nepal

Treatment Action Group (TAG)

New York, NY USA

Treatment Advocacy and Literacy Campaign (TALC)

Lusaka, Zambia

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

London, England

United Brothers and Sisters Association of Cameroon (AFSU)

Yaounde, Cameroon

VIVO POSITIVO

PLWHA National Network

Santiago, Chile

Washington Office on Africa,

Washington, DC USA

The Well Project

Charlottesville, VA USA

Western Cape Intersect Coalition

Cape Town, South Africa

Western Cape Network on Violence Against Women

Cape Town, South Africa

Women's Equity in Access to Care and Treatment (WE-ACT)

USA and Rwanda

Zambia AIDSLaw Research & Advocacy Network (ZARAN)

Lusaka, Zambia

Zimbabwe Activists against HIV/AIDS (ZAHA)

Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe

INDIVIDUALS

(Groups listed for purpose of identification)

Dane Abbott, obstetrician/gynecologist

Antigua/Barbuda, West Indies

Albert Adalsteinsson, treatment advocate

Reykjavik, Iceland

Moises Agosto-rio

San , Puerto Rico

Individuals from Ukrainian NGO All Together:

Nelya Deduhina

Andrey Franc

Nataliya Gyn'ko

Galina Kaminskaya

Mariya Kaminskaya

Elena Malugina

Marina Rukova

Miyuki Aoki

Services on Health in Asia and African Regions (SHARE)

Tokyo, Japan

Thania Arruda

Grupo de Apoio à Prevenção da Aids do Distrito Federal

Brasília / DF, Brazil

Eleanor J. Bader

Brooklyn, NY USA

Ebony A. Baltimore

Center for Health and Gender Equity

Washington, DC USA

Miriam Banda, treatment support worker

ACER Project

Zambia Country Office

International HIV/AIDS Alliance

Sybil Bank

Great Neck, NY USA

Elvio J Bornhausen

Fórum Catarinense das ONG/AIDS

Florianópolis / SC, Brazil

Rabbi Sharon Brous

IKAR

Los Angeles, CA USA

Ygor Gomez Burdie

ASOVIDA

Merida, Venezuela

Enrique Chavez, advocacy director

AID FOR AIDS International

New York, USA

Lucy Cheshire, TB/HIV activist

Kenya

Amparo Claro

Latina American & Caribbean Women’s Health Network (LACWHN)

Santiago, Chile

Polly Clayden

London, UK

Debra Cohen

Toronto, Ontario

Cornutt

Atlanta, GA USA

Angelo Marcio da Silva, president

CIADS

RJ, Brasil

Caroline s, coordinator

Western Cape Intersect Coalition

Cape Town, South Africa

s, founding executive director

Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP)

New York, NY USA

Health GAP (Global Access Project)

Philadelphia, PA, USA

de Bruyn

Chapel Hill, NC USA

Tanne de Goei, HIV/AIDS consultant & publicist

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Dennis deLeon, president

Latino Commission on AIDS

New York, USA

Irina Deobald, regional coordinator

Community of People Living with HIV/AIDS

Moscow, Russia

Believe Dhliwayo

PLWH Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

Renato do Rio

Movimento Livre - Cidadania & Direitos Humanos

Florianópolis / SC, Brazil

Alfonso Dubuc

Venezuela

Dunn

San Francisco, CA

Andres Duque, director

Mano a Mano

New York, USA

Elliott, past president

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Janet Feldman, director

KAIPPG International

Rhode Island, USA

Agnès Fiamma, regional project director

Community Based Voluntary Counseling and Testing

Melville, South Africa

Sally Fisher

New York, NY USA

D. Fleshman, former human rights coordinator

American Committee On Africa

Brooklyn, NY USA

Forbes

Global Campaign for Microbicides

Washington, DC USA

Terri M. Ford, director of international advocacy

AIDS Healthcare Foundation

Los Angeles, CA USA

Forman

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Sharon Gelman, executive director

Artists for a New South Africa

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Asha

Belaku Trust

Bangalore, India

Gregg Gonsalves

New York, NY

Roldan , executive director

GITIB, Inc., Resource Center for Sustainable Development

Ozamiz City, Philippines

Jeff Graham, executive director

AIDS Survival Project

Atlanta, GA USA

Mauro Guarinieri

The Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP+)

Bologna, Italy

Caroline Haworth, director of international programmes

Interact Worldwide

London, UK

Heaton

Center for Health and Gender Equity

Takoma Park, MD USA

Geoff Heaviside, HIV/AIDS policy consultant

Brimbank Community Initiatives, Inc

International Centre for Health Equity, Inc

, Australia

Heilman,

Professor of Law

Whittier Law School

Mayor Pro Tem

City of West Hollywood

Aruna Hewapathirane, AIDS activist

Lanka Plus & Alliance Lanka, Sri Lanka

HEAL Project, Zambia

Holy Horne

Astoria, NY USA

rose B. Ikumi, HIV & AIDS programme advisor

Maputo, Mozambique

Masaki Inaba

Africa Japan Forum

Tokyo, Japan

Iversen

Berkeley, CA USA

S.

AIDS Treatment News

Philadelphia, PA USA

Katarina Jiresova, MSW

ODYSEUS

Slovak Republic

Kamau

Kenya Treatment Access Movement (KETAM)

Jules Kamgué

Colibri, Cameroon

Kazuyo Kamikubo

Tokyo Urban Tech University

Kodaira City, Tokyo, Japan

Frances Kissling, president

Catholics for a Free Choice

Washington, DC USA

Nataliya Kitsenko

The Way Home

Odessa, Ukraine

Ingrid Kloet

New Mexico Poz Coalition

Planetpoz

Rio Rancho, NM, USA

Renate Koch, director

Acción Ciudadana Contra el Sida

Caracas, Venezuela

Ilja Kondratjeff

PLWHA, " Pozitivnaja Iniciativa "

Russia, Orenburg

Kate Krauss

Somerville, MA USA

Joep Lange, professor of medicine

Center for Poverty-related Communicable Diseases

Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Carole Leach-Lemens

New York, NY USA

Kon Lezhentsev

International Harm Reduction Development Programme

Kumiko Makino

Africa Japan Forum

Chiba, Japan

Trionne Bianca Major

Caribbean Regional Network of PLWHA

Port of Spain, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

Ambroise Mamona

Reseau National des Positifs

Brazzaville, Congo-Brazzaville

Greg Manning

Australian International Health Institute

, Australia

Phyllis McKay

Atlanta, GA USA

Pooja Mehta

Mount Sinai School of Medicine – World AIDS Awareness Committee

New York, NY

Consuelo Mejía, executive director

Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir

México

Shaun Mellors, HIV/AIDS consultant & trainer

Gender AIDS Forum

Durban, Republic of South Africa

Helen Miramontes, HIV/AIDS consultant

North Las Vegas, NV USA

Aleksandrs Molokovskis, coordinator

ITPC RAC and TIDES RPI

Kekava, Latvia

Suerie Moon

Medecins Sans Frontieres

China

Dr. Gillian Morantz

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Mamoru Mozumi

Africa Japan Forum

Tokyo, Japan

Dominica Mudota

Zimbabwe AIDS Network

Harare, Zimbabwe

Tafadzwa Ralph Mugabe, projects lawyer

Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights

Causeway, Zimbabwe

Jeannie Mulenga, coordinator

HEAL Project

Lusaka, Zambia

Muma

Les Batisseurs

Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Clementine Mumba

Network for ARV Users for People Living with HIV/AIDS

Lusaka, Zambia

Lydia Mungherera

Uganda Treatment Access Movement (UTAM)

Health Rights Action Group (HAG)

Uganda, UK

Akiko Nakaji

London, UK

Elena Traicu and Lucia Stirbu

National Union of the Organisations of HIV/AIDS Affected People (UNOPA)

Romania

Alberto Nieves

Red Venezolana de Gente Positiva (RVG+)

Marques, Caracas, Venezuela

Nino, president

Fundacion Para la Prevencion del SIDA en la Familia

Estado Amazonas, Venezuela

Yuriko Niwada

Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan

Chikako Noda

Together with Africa and Asia Association

Saitama, Japan

Kaori Note

Tokyo, Japan

Novichkov and Shona Schonning

Community of People Living with HIV/AIDS

Moscow, Russia

Oonagh O´Brien

ImpAct AIDS

Edinburgh, Scotland

Junko Okura

Jubilee Kyushu on World Debt and Poverty

Fukuoka, Japan

Onyango, executive director

KAIPPG Kenya

Mumias, Kenya

Treena Orchard

University of Manitoba, Faculty of Medicine

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canda

Elias Tejada Ospina

Accion Solidaria

Venezuela

Tapuwa Manyati, Eddy Tapera Mhonda, and Reg Mtutu

Padare Mens Forum on Gender

Harare, Zimbabwe:

Rodrigo Pascal

Vivo Positivo, PLWHA National Network

Santiago, Chile

Fiona Pettitt, member

ICW

London, UK

Jim Pickett, director public policy

AIDS Foundation of Chicago

Chicago, IL USA

Katha Pollitt, writer

The Nation

New York, NY USA

Ann Pozen

NAVTA, Inc

Bethesda, MD USA

Audrey Prieto

Fundación a Chappard

Caracas, Venezuela

Rahul Rajkumar

Yale University School of Medicine

Rank

Institute for Development Studies, Sussex University

Brighton, UK

M. Raspa, MPH, project manager

The Well Project

Charlottesville, VA

Kaytee Riek

Housing Works

New York, NY, USA

Ybrahinn Cordero Rojas

Venezuela

Zachary Rosner

USA

Ryoichiro Saito

Africa Japan Forum

Tokyo, Japan

o J.

Caracas, Venezuela

A. Sankar, executive director

EMPOWER

Tuticorin, India

Sawyer

New York, NY USA

Cofounder:

ACT UP New York

Housing Works

HealthGap

Bettina T. Schunter

UNICEF – HIV/AIDS

Islamabad, Pakistan

Agita Seja

Riga, Latvia

Jim Seymour, senior research fellow

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong, China

Manarup Shahi, chairperson

Towards Change

Kathmandu, Nepal

Phindile Shangase

Dhiverse

Cambridge, UK

Shaw

HIV/AIDS Patients Survivors Union

San Francisco, CA USA

Maudelle Shirek, former Vice Mayor

Berkeley, CA USA

Siplon

Burlington, VT USA

Orlando Soto, CD

Guayana, Venezuela

Sonny Suchdev

New York, NY USA

Mark Muyskens Swier

Planned Parenthood of the Mid-Hudson Valley

Poughkeepsie, NY USA

Yumika Takada

Tokyo, Japan

Shin'ya Tateiwa

Ritsumeikan University

Kyoto, Japan

Martha Tholanah

Harare, Zimbabwe

Thomson

London, UK

Ricky Tombing, general secretary; fellow

Delhi Network of Positive People (DNP+);

ActionAid, International India PLWHA Fellowship Programme.

New Delhi, India

Uhrig

Chiang Mai, Thailand

Yuri Umino

University Lecturer

Ohta-Ku, Tokyo, Japan

Ptgo Walter Trejo Urquiola

Coordinaciòn General Cátedra de la Paz

Universidad de los Andes

Mérida, Venezuela

Yasushi Ushiama

Saitama, Japan

Valera

Proyecto de Vida

Acarigua, Estado Portuguesa, Venezuela

Virani

Brooklyn, NY

Walsh, student

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Walsh, student

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Wan Yanhai

AIZHI Action Project

Beijing, China

Wiessner

Aids Hilfe München

München, Germany

Glen

Strategies for Hope Trust

Oxford, UK

ph R.

Dunwoody GA USA

Joe , student

Harvard Medical School

Cambridge, MA, USA

Reiko Yoshida

McGill University

Paris, France

Eddie Young

AIDS Survival Project

Atlanta, GA USA

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