This week, we commemorate World AIDS Day, and while we may take a moment to celebrate how far we have come, we must remember that we still have a long way to go. There are still hundreds of people dying everyday due to HIV related illnesses, one HIV related death, Continue Reading
This week we are looking forward to sharing a few LOL’s at our fundraiser “Pay back the Curry”. Tickets are available through SECTION27 and all proceeds will go to our various community-based programmes. Monday 21 November Attorney Sasha Stevenson will attend the first meeting of HEALA (the Healthy Living Alliance), a Continue Reading
Monday 14 November TAC and SECTION27 is conducting a Health strengthening training workshop. This training will be held at Enhlazatshe information centre, at chief Albert Luthuli Local municipality. The meeting will be attended by TAC activist, partner organisations and Members of the civil society at provincial, district and local AIDS councils. Continue Reading
Monday 7 November : John Stephens and Sasha Stevenson will attend the end of year strategic planning meeting for the Stop Stockouts Project. The SSP is a consortium of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society, the Treatment Action Campaign, SECTION27, the Rural Health Advocacy Project, the Rural Doctor’s Association of South Africa Continue Reading
This week, SECTION27 remembers the life Esidimeni 37. These are patients who lost their lives in the past few months after they were moved to various NGO’s from Life Esidimeni. This is a tragedy that no family or person should ever have to deal with and we hope that authorities Continue Reading
SECTION27 staffers will represent the organisation at various local and international platforms covering all the areas of our work. 11 October Ntombi Maphosa and Thuthukile Mbatha will run a Community Health Worker (CHW) workshop in Msinga in rural KwaZulu-Natal. The workshop is aimed at informing CHWs about the policy and Continue Reading
Tuesday 4 October Executive Director, Mark Heywood will be deliver a talk to the pupils at St Peter’s School in the UK in which he will provide realistic insight into what life can be like for those who have been denied access to opportunities and as a result have fewer Continue Reading
This week we are going to the streets. Marching, mobilising, and more than anything else, demanding change and access to quality healthcare for all. Monday 26: The SECTION27’s private health team with Fix the Patent Laws coalition partners will hold a meeting on universal health coverage. The meeting will focus Continue Reading
This week, we pay respect to South African Music Icon Mduduzi “Mandoza” Tshabalala who passed away yesterday after battling cancer. Mandoza’s music united South Africans, and allowed us all to be proud of our country. We were reminded that: “Indoda’ingawa namhlanje, Kusasa iphindi’vuke”. (A man may fall today, but he Continue Reading
Monday 12th: SECTION27 mobiliser Solanga Milambo will attend a Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) Health consultation. The TAC’s advocacy team conducted visits to health facilities in Limpopo and will now discuss the next steps in addressing community concerns as well as creating a broader health campaign around access to treatment. This Continue Reading
As we continue in the fight for Social Justice, we remember our comrade Godfrey Phiri whose memorial services we attended last week. We remember his invaluable contribution to the struggle for social justice and as we continue down this path, we are reminded that our work is not yet done. Continue Reading
Monday 22 Aug: Catch Silomo Khumalo, legal researcher at SECTION27 on SABC Morning Live, when he discusses our report “Too many children left in the dark: Exclusion in the South African inclusive education system” The report documents widespread violations of the rights of children with disabilities in the Umkhanyakude District. Continue Reading