Green Paper on National Health Insurance (NHI) Policy

By cindy, 19 August 2011 Posted in: Health Systems Strengthening, News, NHI, Right to Access Healthcare

To download the gazette National Health Insurance (NHI) Policy document, click here

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NHI Bill is just not the right medicine

By admin, 13 September 2018

Posted in: NHI, S27 in the Media

SECTION27 supports the extension of healthcare to as many South Africans as possible, but until the public health system is fixed and private healthcare better regulated, this will remain a chimera. First published in the Daily Maverick on 26 June 2018 On 21 June 2018, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi released the…

Tags: National Health Insurance Bill

Statement: SECTION27 welcomes the judgement from the Supreme Court of the United States in USAID vs AOSI

By cindytest, 24 June 2013

Posted in: Good governance and accountability, News

SECTION27 welcomes the judgment from the Supreme Court of the United States in USAID v AOSI. The judgment declared a law making the denunciation of sex work a requirement to be eligible to receive funding from the US to combat HIV an unconstitutional violation of the right to freedom of speech. The judgment opens the door for much needed and previously prohibited work to realize the rights of sex workers and other people living with HIV or at risk of becoming infected with HIV.

Tags: AOSI funding HIV Sex Work Supreme Court USAID

Violent riots further affirm the need to protect the right to health at Lindela—yet Home Affairs idles.

By cindy, 12 June 2012

Posted in: Media Statements, Migrant Health, Right to Access Healthcare

12 June 2012

On 28 May 2012, a group of organisations wrote to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) to request that it urgently investigate the state of health and health care service provision at Lindela Repatriation Centre (Lindela).

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), SECTION27, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), and People against Suffering, Oppression and Poverty (PASSOP) requested a response from the SAHRC by 11 June 2012. To date, they have not received a response.

Recent reports of violent protests within Lindela add even further urgency and credence to the request and the need to ensure that health and health rights are protected. Therefore, the organisations are now making the request public.

Read the complete statement and the full request to the SAHRC by clicking “read more” below

Tags: Department of Home Affairs Lawyers for Human Rights Lindela Médecins Sans Frontières Oppression and Poverty People against Suffering South African Human Rights Commission violent protest Xenophobia

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