The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and SECTION27 today launched the much anticipated tenth issue of the NSP Review. The NSP Review seeks to engage with South Africa’s National Strategic Plan for HIV, STIs and TB. This edition looks at South Africa’s response to drug-resistant TB. Contributors include Dr Jennifer Hughes, Continue Reading
VOTE YES TO STOP TB and DR-TB Activist statement to the 4th SA TB Conference Call for TB and DR-TB in SA to be declared a Public Health Emergency in South Africa Dear TB Conference 2014 Delegates, We know that TB is a preventable and treatable bacteria that can be Continue Reading
The Fourth South African TB Conference will be held at the International Convention Centre in Durban from Tuesday 10 June 2014 to Friday 13 June 2014. SECTION27 will be co-hosting two events. Members of the public in and around Durban at the time are invited. The details are as follows: Continue Reading
22 May 2014, JOHANNESBURG: SECTION27, the Treatment Action Campaign, the Wits Justice Project and the Centre for Applied Legal Studies mourn the death of Dudley Lee and send their condolences to his friends, family and loved ones. Mr Lee, who passed away in Victoria Hospital in Cape Town in the Continue Reading
SECTION27 and the Treatment Action Campaign relaunched the NSP Review at the ICASA conference in Cape Town yesterday. The review has a new look and now has more thought leaders weighing in on an array of important topics relating to the implementation of the NSP. NSP Review 9
John Stephens, a legal researcher at SECTION27 attended the 44th Union World Conference on Lung Health which was held in Paris, France from the 30th of October until the 3rd of November. He presented on human rights and TB with a specific focus on the landmark Dudley Lee case. Please find Continue Reading
This week SECTION27 made written submissions on two important National Department of Basic Education draft policy documents: Regulations Relating to Minimum Norms and Standards for Public School Infrastructure and its National Policy on HIV and TB. These submissions should be read together as these two policy documents inform each other and their successful Continue Reading
Following years of negotiations between the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) and the AIDS Law Project (ALP) regarding the SANDF’s old health classification policy that excluded people living with HIV from recruitment, external deployment and promotion in the military, in 2008 the North Gauteng High Court settled the matter. Pursuant to an out of court settlement between the two parties, the Court declared such policy as unconstitutional to the extent that it violated the rights of aspirant and serving members of the SANDF to equality and dignity, among other rights.
The 6th South African AIDS Conference opened last night in Durban. Sifiso Nkala of the TAC took the stage and accepted the Dira Sengwe Leadership Award on behalf of the TAC. The award “recognises ethical beacons and leaders in AIDS” and was awarded to the TAC in recognition of its critical role in the HIV movement since its inception.
The conference, as the HIV movement more broadly, must be led by the people for whom the ideas and decisions discussed at it mean the most – people living with HIV, yet Sifiso was the only person openly living with HIV to share the stage at the opening ceremony. In the tradition of TAC activism, Sifiso took the opportunity of TAC’s receipt of the award to address the conference audience of around 2500 on the challenges that cripple the health system, cost lives and show that the end of AIDS is not so near as some would have us believe.
Joint Press Statement: High-level Roundtable on TB management in South Africa’s correctional centres held at Wits
Members of the criminal justice, social justice and health sectors discussed strategies to prevent and treat tuberculosis (TB) – the leading cause of death in South Africa’s correctional centres – at the University of the Witwatersrand on Tuesday, 28 May 2013.
Following years of engagement with the insurance industry on the issue of the blanket refusals to provide insurance cover to individuals living with HIV, SECTION27 is encouraged that a permanent favourable solution could be found soon. This follows the recent groundbreaking commitment made by the Association for Savings & Investment South Africa (ASISA).
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) and the Department of Health (DoH) jointly announced the Guidelines for the Management
of Tuberculosis, Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Sexually-‐Transmitted Infections in Correctional Centres, 2013 (the Guidelines) on World
TB Day, 24 March 2013. Centre for Applied Legal Studies. WIts Justice Project, SECTION27 and Treatment Action Campaign wrote a joint submission