Today, SECTION27 and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) launch a new report exposing widespread failures in access to abortion services in the Eastern Cape and Limpopo. The report, Barriers to Abortion Services in the Eastern Cape and Limpopo: 2026, documents how systemic failures in the public healthcare system are denying women and girls access to 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 This support was abruptly withdrawn in January 2025.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
True nation-building occurs when public money is used to improve the everyday conditions in which people live, learn, and receive care. After more than a decade in which fiscal consolidation, rising debt-service costs, and repeated bailouts diverted resources away from basic education and health, Budget 2026 reflects a welcome shift Continue Reading
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), Doctors Without Borders (MSF), and Kopanang Africa Against Xenophobia (KAAX) – represented by SECTION27, welcome the judgment handed down today by the Gauteng High Court, Johannesburg, which orders the state to take immediate and decisive action to end the obstruction of access to public healthcare Continue Reading
SECTION27 and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) have made a joint submission on the Special Appropriation Bill, which proposes additional funding for the 2025/26 financial year, addressing the funding cuts to the health sector.
PUBLISHED BY: News24 WRITTEN BY: Kholofelo Mphahlele In South Africa, pregnant women living in areas with high levels of air pollution face an increased risk of giving birth to a child with a congenial anomaly, particularly craniofacial cleft lip and palate (CLP.) CLP is one of the five most common 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
7 May 2025, Johannesburg – The Cancer Alliance represented by SECTION27 returned to court today in the matter of Cancer Alliance v the MEC for Health, Gauteng and 10 others. Today’s proceedings concerned an application for leave to appeal instituted by the provincial health respondents in the matter after a Continue Reading
PUBLISHED BY: Daily Maverick WRITTEN BY: Mduduzi Nkosi and Matshidiso Lencoasa Civil society has consistently advocated for ways to expand public spending without deepening debt or burdening the poor. Now, the challenge is political will. In such a volatile economic climate, leaders must seize this moment to craft a Budget Continue Reading
Africa’s HIV response has long been shaped by external donors and partners, saving millions of lives but fostering dependency. As funding declines and global crises grow, it is time for Africa to take the lead in driving its own HIV response.
As civil society organisations committed to food justice, children’s health and education rights, we are alarmed by the recent handover of McDonald’s-branded ‘Mi Desk’ desks to two Cape Town schools, facilitated by the Minister of Basic Education, Siviwe Gwarube. This follows similar corporate-branded desk donations from Old Mutual and Hollywood Continue Reading
By: Samukelisiwe Msane Meet *Neema Ntumba, a 36-year-old refugee, originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, who has called Pretoria her home for a decade. As a refugee, Neema can access the same healthcare services as South African citizens as set out in the Constitution. However, the reality of accessing Continue Reading
