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Sunday Times (Johannesburg) - December 4, 2008
Werner Swart
Though the TAC is facing major financial difficulties and has to retrench close to 20 percent of its employees, its general secretary, Vuyiseka Dubula, said this would not dampen the organisation's efforts to expand access to medical treatment and educate communities about HIV-Aids.
Dubula said the economic crisis had led to a drop in donations and about R7-million from the global Aids fund had not been received.
She acknowledged that the new working relationship with the health department, which was at loggerheads with the TAC during the tenure of minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, had forced the organisation to re-evaluate its structure.
Dubula said that, despite the country's renewed vigour in fighting the disease, the TAC believed it still had a prominent role to play.
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