At a recent civil society meeting jointly hosted by SECTION27 and Spotlight, Sasha Stevenson, head of health at SECTION27, presented on the implications of NHI and HMI for access to healthcare in South Africa. We now make her informative and thought-provoking presentation available as a podcast. (We apologise for the poor quality of the recording.)
During the strictest phases of South Africa’s COVID-19 lockdown, the South African Social Security Agency effectively stopped accepting new disability grant applications. Elri Voigt explores what happened and speaks to two applicants on the impact the disruptions have had on their lives.
The Pretoria High Court this week heard a challenge to the regulation of complementary medicine in South Africa. Tendai Mafuma and Julia Chaskalson explains why the case is important and why SECTION27 and the TAC got involved.
State capture and corruption casts a long shadow over all spheres of the public service, including healthcare. For our World AIDS Day edition of Spotlight Mark Heywood takes on this difficult topic. We’re publishing this important article online today ahead of its publication in print.
Tendai Mafuma describes what happened when SECTION27 tried to use new regulations to bring an end to the promotion of an unproven treatment for COVID-19 in South Africa and compares the current situation with the TAC’s successful court battle against Matthias Rath’s promotion of unproven AIDS treatments.
An article this week by the Daily Maverick’s Ferial Haffajee The sordid story of Mosebenzi ‘Gupta’ Zwane – South Africa’s most captured Cabinet minister reminds us just what a scumbag this former MEC, Minister and still Member of our Parliament is.
[caption id="attachment_4683" align="alignnone" width="300"] Doris Ntuli[/caption] By Sasha Stevenson SECTION27 supports the extension of healthcare to as many South Africans as possible, but until the public health system is fixed…
[caption id="attachment_1489" align="alignnone" width="567"] Awaiting trial detainees waiting to be tested for tuberculosis at Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town. Photo courtesy of Gallo Images, The Times, and Shelley Christians[/caption] South…
[caption id="attachment_1230" align="alignnone" width="567"] Photo courtesy of the WHO/Tom Pietras[/caption] Structural faults hamper justice for many victims of sexual abuse in schools SECTION27 and Lawyers Against Abuse are supporting children…
By Nomatter Ndebele – Following a 10 000-strong activist march on the first day of the International AIDS conference in Durban, the Treatment Action Campaign and SECTION27 hosted a press conference to outline the strategy of the activist groups beyond the conference.
“The NSP must resist the temptation to be everything to everyone; it cannot – and should not – become the focal point for dealing with all social ills that undermine…
On Friday 31 March 2017 South Africa’s National Strategic Plan (NSP) for HIV, TB an STIs 2017 – 2022 was launched in Mangaung, Free State. However, as of noon on Monday 3 April the final plan has not yet been made public.