Serious Social Investing Workshop 2013
Mark Heywood gave a presentation at the Serious Social Investing Workshop 2013. He stressed the need for more investment by serious investors in advocacy work in South Africa. Click here for the presentation.
Education Workshop – Presentations by participants
On 14 and 15 November 2012, the Legal Resources Centre, Section27, Equal Education Law Centre, Centre for Child Law and Centre for Applied Legal Studies hosted an Education Conference titled: “Realising basic education as a socio-economic right: How far have we come and where are we going?” Here are some Continue Reading
Mark Heywood: HIV and AIDS – Special lecture for Oxford AIDS Research Day 2012
Read Mark Heywood’s presentation “Not the ‘end of AIDS’ – Moving from Quantity to Quality in Order to Sustain the Results of Global AIDS Activism” A look at the reality of HIV/AIDS in South Africa’ to Oxford University Student HIV/AIDS Research day (26 November 2012) and European Parliament working group Continue Reading
OPENING REMARKS BY MARK HEYWOOD AND VUYISEKA DUBULA TO GLOBAL ACTIVIST MEETING ON THE MEDICINES PATENT POOL (MPP) AND VOLUNTARY LICENSES
We are joined today by over 40 activists from all parts of the world, including organisations of people living with HIV, MSF, as well as individual experts and lawyers who have fought for the rights of people to access affordable quality medicines. In this room is the residue of experience from the many successful battles that changed the landscape of the response to HIV and in doing so has prevented millions of deaths.
How we can improve HIV testing and counselling
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
Nkosi Johnson Memorial Lecture – 5th South African AIDS Conference
On 7 June 2011 Mark Heywood and Mandisa Dlamini (the daughter of Gugu Dlamini) jointly delivered the Nkosi Johnson Memorial lecture at the opening of the 5th South African AIDS Conference. They drew attention to the crisis facing young people in South Africa and the need to link HIV prevention and care to the struggle for the right to a basic education in South Africa.
Health and justice activists gather to debate strategies to achieve the Right to Health
SECTION27 hosts groundbreaking Southern African Regional Activist Dialogue on a proposed Framework Convention on the Right to Health (FCGH)
1. Report on Southern African Dialogue
2. Programme
3. Participants list
4. Discussion Document
SECTION27 Senior Researcher delivers prestigious lecture
On 27 February Jonathan Berger, a senior researcher at SECTION27 and head of our policy unit, delivered the 2nd Martin Delaney Lecture at the 18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston.
4th BEMF meeting: Understanding the IST reports
The Budget and Expenditure Monitoring Forum (BEMF) held its fourth meeting on 12 November 2010. It brought together over 30 people from 10 organisations. The forum considered the Integrated Support Team reports, the antiretroviral tender and the future cost of antiretroviral treatment in the public health system. The forum also heard updates on events in the public health system in Gauteng, Eastern Cape and Free State provinces. An update on the TAC/CEGAA community budget monitoring project was also presented.
First national civil society/labour movement Indaba
Last week SECTION27, TAC and COSATU hosted a historic joint civil-society and labour conference with over 300 participants from 56 civil society organisations.
The two-day meeting consisted of speeches, by COSATU President Sidumo Dlamini and General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi as well as SECTION27 Executive Director, Mark Heywood and Professor Adam Habib…
3rd BEMF meeting: Problems of provincial health funding
The Budget and Expenditure Monitoring Forum (BEMF) held its third meeting on 21 May 2010. It brought together over 30 people from 10 organisations. The aim was to understand what civil society can do to ensure that the budgeting process –at the national and provincial levels– results in the appropriate allocation and use of financial resources to address health needs.
BEMF 2nd meeting: The treatment guidelines and the ARV tender – 5 February 2010
BEMF 2nd meeting: The treatment guidelines and the ARV tender – 5 February 2010.
Presentations:
- Introductory Notes – Nathan Geffen
- The New Treatment Guidelines – Francois Venter
- Procuring High Quality ARVs at Internationally Competitive Prices – Vishal Brinjlal
- Legislative Framework for Procurement – Jonathan Berger