Joint Statement: SECTION27 and TAC welcome strong CERD statement on COVID vaccine inequity Johannesburg, 5 May 2022 – The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and SECTION27 welcome the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination’s (CERD) ‘Statement on the lack of equitable and non-discriminatory access to COVID-19 vaccines’ at Continue Reading
SECTION27 applying to intervene in the ACDP case – vaccinations for adolescents must continue so schools can reopen fully and safely! 30 November 2021 — SECTION27 is intervening as amicus curiae (a friend of the court) in the case of African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) v Minister of the National Continue Reading
Covid-19 Vaccine Q&A – vaccine literacy cards English isiZulu seSotho isiXhosa Here we answer some frequently asked questions about the Covid-19 Vaccine. How do vaccines work, and why do we use them? What is the immune system and what do vaccines have to do with it? What is herd or Continue Reading
SECTION27 calls for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for all. COVID-19 vaccines, which have been developed using public money and trialled on volunteers across the world, should not be used to enrich pharmaceutical companies and executives. They should not be hoarded by wealthy nations at the expense of low and Continue Reading
SECTION27, along with 43 other organisations and 10 individuals, including John Sulston, joint winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine signed a letter expressing concern over the current resolution contained in A66/23 on CEWG follow up. Read the letter attached. Joint Letter to the 66th World Health Continue Reading