TAC Faces Closure Over Lack of Funds

AIDS lobby group, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), faces possible closure in January 2012 because of a lack of funds.

In a press statement, the TAC points out that as a grant-funded NGO, it cannot afford to run a deficit.

It says that, “...besides the fact that over 230 activist organisers will lose their income, the closure of TAC would be a setback for South African democracy."

The organisation, which depends on a five-year grant from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) for a large portion of its work, failed to receive its R6.5 million grant in July 2011.

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