South Africa's powerful labour movement vowed to add its muscle to the fight against AIDS on Wednesday, heaping pressure on the government amid an epidemic killing some 900 South Africans each day...
South Africa's powerful labour movement vowed to add its muscle to the fight against AIDS on Wednesday, heaping pressure on the government amid an epidemic killing some 900 South Africans each day. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), which claims a million members and has organised huge protests in the past, announced it was joining activist group Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) to push for a new approach to AIDS in the country worst hit by the worldwide pandemic. > "The HIV epidemic has been permitted to go too far," COSATU said in a joint statement with the TAC and the South African Council of Churches.
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