📍 Ritshidze Key Population Data Collection is officially underway! ✊🏾 Over the coming weeks, our teams will be on the ground across districts, collecting community-led data to understand the experiences and needs of key populations and strengthen advocacy for better, more accessible and responsive health services. If you know a KP or 2 from branches who would like to be interviewed, please reach out to the teams! From eThekwini to Tshwane, Nelson Mandela Bay to Mopani, our teams are taking the voices of communities directly into the data — and turning that evidence into action. Community voices. Community data. Community power. ✊🏾 #Ritshidze #KeyPopulations #CommunityLedMonitoring #CLM #TAC #DataForChange #HealthJustice #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

TAC responds to the 2026 #MTBPS. We welcome funding commitments to sustain South Africa’s HIV response, but commitments must translate into better healthcare. We call for transparent spending, action on medicine stockouts and staffing shortages, and sustainable funding to protect essential services. Read our statement: tac.org.za/news/tac-statemen… #TAC #HealthForAll

🚨 DIGNITY IN HEALTHCARE IS NOT NEGOTIABLE! 🏥✊🏾 People who use drugs, sex workers, and LGBTQIA+ community members deserve to access healthcare without stigma, discrimination, judgement, or abuse. Enough is enough! Our public healthcare system must do better — and it must happen NOW. Everyone deserves to be treated with dignity, respect, and compassion. 📢 @HealthZA must step up and invest in a healthcare system that protects everyone's health, rights, and lives. 🏳️‍🌈💊 Healthcare is a human right. No stigma. No discrimination. No one left behind! #TAC #Ritshidze #HealthcareForAll #KeyPopulations #LGBTQIA #SexWorkersRights #PeopleWhoUseDrugs #EndStigma #HealthForAll #HumanRights

GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION TB remains one of the biggest gaps in our response to the epidemic. That means too many people with TB are being missed, diagnosed late, or left waiting for treatment. We need to bring testing closer to communities and make rapid molecular testing available where people seek care. #TestToBeatTB

Today we've mobilised outside Mapayeni Clinic in Mopani, where 0% of people surveyed by Ritshidze in August 2026 were receiving a 6 month supply of ARVs #MoreARVPillsNow @HealthZA

The Joburg Department of Health received our memorandum calling for everyone eligible to be offered 6MMD and if accepted, immediately enrolled on the day of their rescript in Orange Farm Ext 7 Clinic, & all clinics across Johannesburg! #MoreARVPillsNow

Everyone eligible must be offered 6MMD, and if accepted, immediately enrolled on the day of their rescript. Not for a day in the future, or after filling out unnecessary forms, but to take home 180 pills the same day! #MoreARVPillsNow @HealthZA

“When they cannot find your file, they give you another date to come and collect your medication… My wish is to get a longer supply of my ARVs to avoid long queues” #MoreARVPillsNow @HealthZA

“I travel a lot… Getting a 6 month supply would give me the flexibility to focus on my work. It would spare me the embarrassment of waiting outside the clinic for over six hours because I missed an appointment” #MoreARVPIllsNow @HealthZA

“I would like to receive a 6 month ART refill because it would reduce the number of times I need to visit the clinic and make it easier for me to balance clinic visits with work” #MoreARVPIllsNow @HealthZA

“I've been on ART for a long time.. I want a 6 month refill... There is a serious shortage of staff at my facility, which makes the service unpleasant and contributes to the long waiting times” #MoreARVPillsNow @HealthZA

Today we've mobilised outside Orange Farm Ext 7 Clinic in Johannesburg, where 0% of people surveyed by Ritshidze in August 2026 were receiving a 6 month supply of ARVs #MoreARVPillsNow @HealthZA @GautengHealth

“The regular visits to the clinic negatively affect my business b/c I have to close the shop every time I need to go to the clinic.... I will request a 6 month refill at my next appointment” #MoreARVPillsNow @HealthZA

“I usually find work outside of Bloemfontein.. it is not always easy to ask for time off… Getting a 6 month supply would reduce the number of clinic visits and make it easier for people who work away from home to stay on treatment” #MoreARVPillsNow @HealthZA

The Mangaung Health Dept. received our memo calling for everyone eligible to be offered 6MMD & if accepted enrolled on day of rescript–not for a day in the future or after filling out unnecessary forms, but to take home 180 pills the same day! #MoreARVPillsNow @HealthZA

“I always wait for a long time when I come to collect my ARVs.. the lost files and long waiting times make you think twice about attending your appointment… getting a 6 month supply would make my life much easier..” #MoreARVPillsNow @HealthZA

To ensure equity & reach @HealthZA 1.5 million target there must be a rapid catch up in enrollment, across all clinics. Every single eligible person living with HIV must be offered 6MMD & if accepted, immediately enrolled on the day of their rescript #MoreARVPillsNow

“Spending an entire day at the clinic every 2 months can become so frustrating that some people may even give up taking their treatment.. A 6 month supply would reduce the number of times we have to visit the clinic” #MoreARVPillsNow @HealthZA

“As someone who needs to travel a lot, it's not easy having to balance work & travel.. A 6 month supply would make it much easier for me to manage my treatment” #MoreARVPillsNow @HealthZA