WHO’s 75th anniversary comes at a fraught moment. The
vaccine apartheid that has marked the COVID-19 pandemic
response has once again raised questions about the
influence of corporate actors and their Global North partners
on global health.
2021 Annual Review: Making Rights Real Welcome to the 2021 Annual Review in which we share some highlights from the work of SECTION27. 2021 was another incredibly challenging year for all of us. We continued to live with COVID-19 and the devastation it wrought on the country. In July 2021, we saw Continue Reading
In 2018, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and its Member States committed to fast-tracking and advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in the region by implementing the 2019-2030 SRHR Strategy. Governments and civil society organisations worked together to develop the following SRHR Scorecard to monitor and assess Continue Reading
A SECTION27 report compiled by Mila Harding, Mbali Baduza and Julia Chaskalson FOREWORD By Faranaaz Veriava and Sasha Stevenson As 2020 began, South Africa was grappling with decreasing budgets for social services, widespread corruption and mismanagement of funds, and deep and growing inequality. By March, the country was locked down Continue Reading
Intellectual property is considered as one of the tools that countries may use to stimulate innovation and creativity. In terms of inventions, the patents system provides for an exclusive right (patent) to be granted, by the state, to an inventor for their invention. During the period patent protection, no one Continue Reading
Sexual Harassment Policy FINAL Nov 2018
The years 2016 and 2017 were seminal years for SECTION27. They were sad, trauma-filled years, but they were also years that placed us on a path of seeking justice. They were the years of Michael Komape and Life Esidimeni…
SECTION27 has produced a patient handbook that details our experiences of the private healthcare system. In this publication, we aim to give voice to often marginalised voices of patients who struggle to access their constitutional right to healthcare. SECTION27 Patient Handbook
SECTION27 is proud to launch its Health Reform Briefs in an effort to broaden discussion about the different ways in which the health sector is changing. The briefs will look at reform in the health care sector through the lens of the Constitution and public interest, tying together economics, health systems theory and the law.
SECTION27, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), SERI and Read Hope Philips Attorneys have developed a comprehensive guide for activists on local government in South Africa. The guide sets out the legal responsibilities of local government, and rights under the Constitution and in law. It shows how to engage government from inside, by Continue Reading
What we know about AIDS explains the essential science of HIV succinctly and clearly. It was originally published as a chapter in Debunking Delusions by Nathan Geffen. With the permission of the author, Nathan Geffen, and the book’s publisher, Jacana, aidstruth.org has released this chapter under the Creative Commons Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license.
The reports on this page are those of the Integrated Support Teams (ISTs) which have been provided to SECTION27 and the Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP). The IST reports were commissioned by the former Minister of Health, Barbara Hogan, in response to the massive budgetary shortfalls that over-whelmed provincial departments of health (PDoHs) in the 2008/2009 financial year, which reached crisis levels when the Free State Department of Health issued a moratorium on the initiation of new patients onto antiretroviral treatment from November 2008 to February 2009.
10 reports were commissioned in total, one for each provincial department of health and one for the National Department of Health – which we have not been able to access as of yet. In addition, a Consolidated Report was produced that pulled together findings from the individual department reports. These reports contain an honest, sobering assessment of the inadequate financial capacity of provincial departments of health that have led to the development of over R7.5 billion in provincial debt as of April 2009. The findings in these reports reveal fundamental failures in political and bureaucratic leadership, inappropriate financial management systems, inadequate monitoring and evaluation systems, and a failure to plan appropriately for human resources, amongst others.
