PUBLISHED BY: Health-E WRITTEN BY: Candice Sehoma and Tendai Mafuma A Promise Deferred: Twelve Years Since PharmaGate It has been more than twelve years since the reveal of “PharmaGate,” a R6 million lobbying plot by the pharmaceutical industry aimed at delaying and weakening South Africa’s draft intellectual property (IP) policy. Continue Reading
The Stop Stockouts Project (SSP) releases a new report titled: Impact, Adaptation and Opportunity – South Africa’s Health System Post-PEPFAR. For over two decades, the United States used PEPFAR to support South Africa’s response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This support was abruptly withdrawn in January 2025. This report assesses the Continue Reading
Purpose and Scope of Consultancy SECTION27 seeks the expertise of an independent consultant with experience in public health research to prepare a report on the impact of the withdrawal of PEPFAR on the availability of Antiretroviral therapy (ART), HIV tests and contraceptives in the public health sector. The research, which Continue Reading
20 August 2025, Johannesburg – SECTION27, and the Cancer Alliance, welcome the urgent judgment of the Gauteng High Court handed down today by Judge Dippenaar in the matter of Cancer Alliance v MEC for Health, Gauteng and 10 Others. The Cancer Alliance, represented by SECTION27, approached the South Gauteng High Continue Reading
By: Tsadok Yehudah We often take for granted just how much we rely on our sense of sight in our daily lives. For Michelle Myers*, a documented Ethiopian refugee living in South Africa, this was a diminishing reality as her world was literally fading to black. Michelle has called South Continue Reading
SECTION27 welcomes the decision by the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to re-employ a recruit who was denied employment solely on the basis of her HIV status. In 2021, SECTION27 was approached by a client seeking assistance after she was denied employment by the SANDF because of her HIV Continue Reading
05 May 2023, Johannesburg — SECTION27, the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) and the Centre for Child Law (CCL) made a submission to the Department of Basic Education’s (“DBE”) Draft Guidelines for the Socio-Educational Inclusion of Diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Expression and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC) in schools. We welcome Continue Reading
SECTION27), the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) and Centre for Child Law (CCL) welcomes the opportunity to make submissions on the Department of Basic Education’s (DBE) Draft Guidelines for the Socio-Educational Inclusion of Diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Expression and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC) in schools.
PRESS RELEASE CONTRACEPTIVES ARE MOST COMMON MEDICINE STOCKOUT AT PUBLIC HEALTH FACILITIES IN 2022, STOP STOCKOUTS PROJECT RESEARCH FINDS Research findings indicate that many women and girls cannot access the contraceptives that they need, which places their sexual and reproductive health in jeopardy 30 August 2022, Johannesburg — At the Continue Reading
Media Statement: Thousands are dying and suffering because they can’t access patented medicines. The time to Fix South Africa’s Patent Laws is now! 8 November 2021 — Activists from the Fix The Patent Laws Campaign will march to the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) tomorrow 9 November 2021 Continue Reading
People in South Africa are needlessly suffering and dying because many patented medicines are unaffordable. The time to Fix South Africa’s Patent Laws is now! Activists from the Fix The Patent Laws Campaign will march to the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) on 9 November 2021 to urge Continue Reading
Save lives now: support the Covid-19 TRIPS Waiver! South African Civil Society organisations call on countries blocking the proposal at the WTO to change their vote.
