The Treatment Action Campaign's objectives are:

• To ensure access to treatment information and to affordable and quality treatment for people with HIV/AIDS
• Prevent and eliminate new HIV infections, and
• Improve the affordability and quality of health-care for all.

The Treatment Action Campaign campaigns for:

• Affordable and good treatment drugs for people living with HIV/AIDS. (We will work with the government and companies which make and sell these drugs).
• Free AZT for pregnant mothers with HIV. (AZT is a drug which reduces the chances of a mother passing HIV to her child by between 35 and 50%. AZT is a cheap and good HIV treatment for pregnant mothers and costs as little as R400 a month).
• The building of a strong social movement for all people living with HIV/AIDS.
• A better and friendly health service for all. People with HIV/AIDS must be treated with dignity and respect in hospitals and clinics.
• No foreign interference with South African drug policy