World TB Day 2022
As we commemorate World TB Day in 2022, we call on stakeholders to scale up the roll-out of TB preventive therapy.
South Africa leading on HIV policy adoption but there’s still some way to go
Johannesburg 30 November 2020: Today, the HIV Policy Lab, a collaboration among academics, United Nations and civil society partners from around the world, publish the first ever Global HIV policy report. The world, according to the United Nations, is not going to reach the global HIV targets set for 2020. Continue Reading
Plan to Cut U.S funding for South Africa’s HIV response is reversed, increased funding on the table
(Washington, DC) — Last week it was announced that a dramatic cut in U.S. funding to South Africa’s HIV response will likely be reversed, so long as quality of services for people living with HIV is increased. The turnaround is a major victory for people living with HIV in the country, as critical resources Continue Reading
People’s Country Operational Plan on HIV and TB
With only a year until 2020 – and the deadline to reach the 90-90-90 targets – South Africa is dangerously off track. Currently 7.1 million people are living with HIV in the country. New HIV infections remain high, according to the Thembisa model1 at 275 000 in 2017, higher than Continue Reading
What is missing from the United Nations Political Declaration on Tuberculosis
“Collectively we have failed to respond effectively to TB, because it mainly affects poor people including criminalised and marginalised communities such as people who use drugs, prisoners and their communities
TAC AND SECTION27: WE CANNOT ENDORSE THE HIV AND TB PLAN (NSP) IN ITS CURRENT FORM
JOHANNESBURG, 30th MARCH 2017 – HIV and tuberculosis (TB) remains at crisis levels in South Africa. Every year around 270 000 people are still newly infected with HIV. A recent Statistics South Africa report listed TB as the number one reported cause of death in South Africa. Drug-resistant TB is a serious Continue Reading
The unravelling of the human rights response to HIV and AIDS and why it happened: an activists’ perspective
Over the last 30 years, many aspects of the HIV response have been ‘exceptional’. One of the most remarkable has been the extent to which in theory, policy and (to some degree) practice, the respect for and promotion of human rights have been placed at the heart of the response. Continue Reading
Statement: Resounding victory for Dwenga and others in groundbreaking case challenging HIV discrimination in the South African National Defence Force
26 September 2014, Pretoria – Twenty years ago the then AIDS Law Project (ALP) wrote its first letter to the Minister of Defence and the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) challenging the practice of mandatory HIV testing and its continued refusal to deploy people living with HIV. In the subsequent Continue Reading
Sister Sue Roberts, Extraordinary Public Sector Nurse and Pioneer of South Africa’s ARV programme.
Sister Sue Roberts On Tuesday 1 July 2014 Sue Roberts retires. I have known Sue for nearly 20 years. It’s remarkable that a large part of her life as a nurse almost coincides with the history of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, from the late 1980s through to today. And in Continue Reading
Statement: Civil Society expects Minister to vote Yes on memorandum to recognize Drug Resistant TB (DR-TB) as a Public Health Emergency at 4th SA TB Conference
12 June 2014, Civil Society expects Minister to vote Yes on memorandum to recognize Drug Resistant TB (DR-TB) as a Public Health Emergency at 4th SA TB Conference on 13 June 2014 Civil society organizations the Treatment Action Campaign, SECTION27 and Médecins Sans Frontières have issued a memorandum to the Continue Reading
Media Statement: SECTION27 quoted incorrectly and out of context
12 JUNE 2014, We wish to clarify a statement published in the Times yesterday “TB is killing us”. SECTION27 is quoted as stating: “The government knows what to do to slow the spread of TB but [it] lacks political will.” We wish to state that we were quoted incorrectly and Continue Reading
A PRISON SENTENCE SHOULD NOT BE A DEATH SENTENCE: WE NEED A SERIOUS, URGENT, PUBLIC AND MONITORED PLAN TO STOP TB IN PRISONS
MEMORANDUM: A PRISON SENTENCE SHOULD NOT BE A DEATH SENTENCE: WE NEED A SERIOUS, URGENT, PUBLIC AND MONITORED PLAN TO STOP TB IN PRISONS To be delivered by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and SECTION27 to a representative of the Department of Justice and Correctional Services (DJCS) at the SA Continue Reading