Misimang saying it would probably only be reached by next year. In a statement on Sunday, the Health Department said it welcomed the decision of the TAC to drop its demand for the draft documents on implementation of anti-retroviral. Health spokesman Sibani Mngadi told Reuters the minister was consulting with legal representatives to decide how to respond to the TAC's demand that the government pay its legal costs. He also said that as of the end of September, more than 11,200 people were being treated for AIDS at public hospitals. Heywood said the court case on the issue of paying legal costs to the TAC would be heard on Nov. 4, when the group also planned public demonstrations. "It took them from February to September to tell us the thing we were requesting did not exist. We are arguing that they could have told the country this eight months ago," he said.