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As part of an ongoing battle to secure antiretroviral (ARV) treatment for South Africa's HIV-positive inmates, the AIDS lobby group, Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), has gained access to a controversial report that may shed light on whether or not treatment delays are still costing lives in South African prisons.
The ruling handed down on Friday in the High Court in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, condemned the Ministry of Correctional Services for withholding what has come to be called the "MM report" on an investigation into the death of an inmate, known only as MM, who died at the Westville Correctional Centre in the east-coast city of Durban, in August 2006. It also instructs the ministry to hand over unedited copies of the report to TAC.
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