Green Paper on National Health Insurance (NHI) Policy

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

Meeting the challenges of HIV treatment and prevention through independent mobilisation and work through the SA National AIDS Council (SANAC)

By cindytest, 14 October 2010

Posted in: HIV and TB, News, Right to Access Healthcare

On 16 and 17 September 2010, over 60 members of civil society organisations and trade unions met to discuss their work and their efforts – independently and through the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) – to strengthen the national response to HIV and to achieve the goals of the National Strategic Plan (NSP). The aim of the meeting was to define a new agenda going forward for civil society activism both within and independent of SANAC and to focus on our human right to health.

Tags: Civil society consensus statement HCT Health HIV HIV Counseling and Testing HIV prevention Human rights NSP SANAC

Patents Amendment Bill, 2005

By cindytest, 25 July 2005

Posted in: Aids Law Project, Archive, Submissions

The AIDS Law Project (ALP) and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) welcome this opportunity to make written submissions on the Patents Amendment Bill [B 17 – 2005] (“the Bill”). As two organisations that have consistently advocated for the development of our patent system into one that considers South Africa’s competitive advantage and takes into account the specific needs of its people, we support what the Bill aims to achieve and, in general terms, how it goes about accomplishing its stated objective.

Tags: Access to medicine Health Legislation Patents Patents Amendment Bill Pharmaceuticals

SECTION27 to host regional activist dialogue on Right to Health

By cindytest, 19 March 2011

Posted in: Access to medicines, Media Statements, Right to Access Healthcare

SECTION27 to host groundbreaking Southern African Regional Activist Dialogue on Strengthening Campaigns for the Right to Health and why we need a UN Framework Convention on the Right to Health.

This year a million people will die of HIV in Eastern and Southern Africa. Hundreds of thousands more will die of easily preventable diseases. Infant and maternal mortality remains intolerably high across the region. This situation demands an enhanced and urgent response to health, yet health systems are under enormous strain, many governments are lukewarm in their response to health and international donor assistance is flagging or going into reverse, particularly the commitment to fund universal access to HIV treatment.

Tags: antiretrovirals Framework Convention on the Right to Health (FCGH)HIV Human rights right to health Southern Africa Southern African Regional Activist Dialogue

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