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“Health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.” I can’t tell you what a thrill it was to hear President Obama speak those words, a few hours ago, after signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.…

The Gauteng health system remains in disarray, say Section27 and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), with crises relating to equipment, staff, infrastructure, corruption and mismanagement. They’re giving the provincial department a month to clean up its act, or they’ll go to court to ensure the…

By Mogomotsi MagomeCommunity organisation Equal Education (EE) has called on Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga to urgently improve the condition of schools across the country. The organisation, including pupils and teachers, picketed at the Union Buildings on Thursday to “remind” Motshekga that she had signed…

The University of KwaZulu-Natal and the Treatment Action Campaign are Atlantic grantees. by Sonya Bell Sales of unregistered medicines to HIV patients are being made by medical professionals, according to academics, activists and medical practitioners across the country. "This is a problem and I think…

Original Source by Khopotso Bodibe The Department of Health may in future allow people living with HIV to get antiretroviral drugs earlier. At present, people relying on public sector health can only get the medication when their CD4 count, which measures the level of immunity…

The reasons why The Atlantic Philanthropies made what may be the largest U.S. advocacy grant ever in order to support health reform are outlined by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Grantmakers in Health conference in Orlando, Florida. Occasionally it is better not…

[caption id="attachment_75843" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Photo: Treatment Action Campaign[/caption] Advocacy is a central mechanism for driving social change. As Mark Heywood, Executive Director of Section 27 says: “Advocacy is not a handful of individuals shouting from the rooftops. It is about effective community education, community mobilisation…

BY MARY-ANNE GONTSANA"We demand accountable leadership", "Failure to resolve stock-outs = human rights violation", "Limpopo Department of Health - Failed promises" read placards at the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) march in solidarity with provinces that continue to be plagued by finding essential medicines are out…

by France NyakaThe devastating HIV pandemic gripping South Africa was one of the key themes of the May Day rally in Witbank on Saturday, with labour unions and non-governmental organisation urging workers to practise safe sex.Workers in union regalia, from all over the Ekangala district…

 Night and a Day in QueenstownPosted by Gara LaMarche  | 18 March 2011, South AfricaAs Jack has chronicled, we arrived in Queenstown, the final leg of our journey in the Eastern Cape, in the dark, around 7 p.m.  This was a problem for two reasons.  First, we’d…