Several organisations including the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Cosatu are set to march to the US Consulate in Johannesburg on Thursday to protest against cuts in Aids funding.

The TAC says: "European governments and the USA are betraying their commitments to help fund HIV treatment in the world's poorest countries".

"We will be marching to the US Consulate in Johannesburg to make United States President Barack Obama aware of the deaths that will result from his anti-treatment policies."

The TAC said less than half the people in need of antiretroviral treatment (ART) in Africa had access to the medicine.

"It is tragic, that under President Obama, the President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar) is cutting support for ART and flat-lining funding for HIV/Aids."

The march, organised by the TAC, the Congress of SA Trade Unions and Doctors Without Borders, was scheduled to start at George Lea Park in Sandton at 11am.