Dear Dr Zweli Mkhize and Mr Tito Mboweni, As civil society organisations, SECTION27 and the Institute for Economic Justice congratulate you on your appointment to the portfolios of Minister of Health and Finance respectively. We wish you courage and fortitude as you take on these critical portfolios at a difficult Continue Reading
FIRE HEALTH MEC BENNY MALAKOANE! 3 JULY 2014, BLOEMFONTEIN: An effective moratorium has been placed on certain public health services in the Free State, a Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) investigation has revealed. For over a year we have released alerts, stating our concern over a slowly collapsing public health system, Continue Reading
Free State Health System in Collapse – Lives are Being Lost Urgent & Immediate Intervention from Minister of Health needed Media invite to attend a press conference with the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) in Bloemfontein to highlight the current crisis facing the Free State health system. DATE: Thursday 3rd July, 9am LOCATION: Hugenoot Continue Reading
Sister Sue Roberts On Tuesday 1 July 2014 Sue Roberts retires. I have known Sue for nearly 20 years. It’s remarkable that a large part of her life as a nurse almost coincides with the history of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, from the late 1980s through to today. And in Continue Reading
19 June 2014 Free State Health System in Collapse – Lives are Being Lost Urgent & Immediate Intervention from Minister of Health needed JOHANNESBURG – The Free State health system is collapsing with stock outs of more than 200 essential drugs and supplies at the provincial depot, desperate health workers Continue Reading
12 June 2014, Civil Society expects Minister to vote Yes on memorandum to recognize Drug Resistant TB (DR-TB) as a Public Health Emergency at 4th SA TB Conference on 13 June 2014 Civil society organizations the Treatment Action Campaign, SECTION27 and Médecins Sans Frontières have issued a memorandum to the Continue Reading
MEMORANDUM: A PRISON SENTENCE SHOULD NOT BE A DEATH SENTENCE: WE NEED A SERIOUS, URGENT, PUBLIC AND MONITORED PLAN TO STOP TB IN PRISONS To be delivered by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and SECTION27 to a representative of the Department of Justice and Correctional Services (DJCS) at the SA Continue Reading
The Competition Commission’s Private Healthcare Inquiry Panel has published the “Statement of Issues” and “Guidelines for Participation in the Market Inquiry into the Private Healthcare Sector” for public comment. The panel has invited the public to comment on these documents. They are attached below. Health Inquiry Draft Guidelines for Participation Health Inquiry Statement of Continue Reading
26 March 2014 TAC and SECTION27 call on the Minister of Health to urgently bring an end to the financial woes facing the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS). The continued year-on-year delayed and non-payment by Gauteng and Kwazulu-Natal speaks to a failure of governance and oversight on the part of Continue Reading
The Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition (ECHCAC) has released the second volume of their newsletter with updates on the state on healthcare in the province. It is titled Response to Eastern Cape Department of Health “Eastern Cape Health systems Interventions”. It contains the Coalition’s analysis of the ECDoH plan to fix Continue Reading
Read the Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition’s analysis of the ‘Eastern Cape Health Systems Intervention’ which is being presented this morning to the Portfolio Committee on Health in Parliament here ECHCAC- response to ECDoH _Eastern Cape Heath Systems Interventions_ 5 November 2013 FINAL
CAPE TOWN – National health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi and newly appointed Head of the Eastern Cape health department Dr Thobile Mbengashe today addressed the Portfolio Committee on Health regarding plans to address the crisis in the province. Committee chair Mr Bevan Goqwana acknowledged that the briefing had been called Continue Reading