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South African Press Association (Johannesburg) - April 25, 2002
The appeal is set down for Thursday and Friday next week.
"We appeal to the government to drop its appeal because there's no logic in continuing with such action following pronouncements last week (by the Cabinet)," Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi told journalists in Johannesburg.
Vavi was speaking at a briefing which followed a three-day meeting of the labour federation's central executive committee, which ended on Thursday.
Last week Cabinet extended the provision of anti-retroviral drugs to rape victims.
Vavi said the committee believed that the pronouncements had given renewed hope that "our society will unite across all sectors to combat the HIV/Aids scourge".
The meeting resolved to call for social mobilisation and partnership to raise awareness on -- among others -- the destigmatisation of HIV/Aids.
"We will step up our campaign to ensure behavioural change and safer sex," said Vavi.
The union also asked government to implement a provision in the Medicines Control Act in order to license the production of generic drugs.
Vavi said the meeting also resolved to support a march called by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) to the Constitutional Court on May 2 to highlight the rights of people living with HIV.
The TAC is the anti-Aids lobby group which won the High Court order against the government's stance on nevirapine earlier this year.
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