TAC/Section27/CALS meeting with new Health MEC in Gauteng.

30 July 2012 Posted in: Health Systems Strengthening, Media Statements, Right to Access Healthcare

TAC-Section27-CALS Press Release Final 30th July 2012

Registration of orientation and mobility practitioners

By Butho, 7 October 2015

Posted in: Learners With Disabilities, News, Right to Access Basic Education

The term of the Occupational Therapy Board of the Health Professional Council of South Africa (HPCSA) that was considering an application for registration made by the Orientation and Mobility Association of South Africa (“OMASA”) has ended. It is not clear if a new board has been reconstituted or whether the…

Tags: Basic education Civil society Education Human rights socio-economic rights

How we can improve HIV testing and counselling

By cindy, 4 April 2012

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

On Friday 16 March 2012, health workers, counselling organisations, activists and a representative of the National Department of Health met in Hillbrow to discuss how to improve HIV testing and counselling. The meeting was hosted by the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society, the Treatment Action Campaign and SECTION27.

The participants have produced a joint statement on “How we can improve HIV testing and counselling”. The statement contains a number of recommendations regarding testing and counselling of children, the role of counsellors in the public health system and self-testing, amongst others.

For the full statement and a full list of presentations and documentation from the meeting click “read more” below

Tags: Health system HIV HIV AIDS counseling and Testing

FREE STATE HEALTH MORATORIUM – ROUND II

By cindy, 3 July 2014

Posted in: Health Systems Strengthening, News, Right to Access Healthcare

FIRE HEALTH MEC BENNY MALAKOANE! 3 JULY 2014, BLOEMFONTEIN: An effective moratorium has been placed on certain public health services in the Free State, a Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) investigation has revealed. For over a year we have released alerts, stating our concern over a slowly collapsing public health system,…

Tags: Beeny Malakoane Free State Free State Department of Health Public healthcare Treatment Action Campaign

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