Peoples' Health Movement South Africa
The People’s Health Movement notes with deep concern the political, economic and social crisis engulfing Zimbabwe whose post-Mugabe leadership have abandoned any pretence of democracy. Hopes for a renewal of the economy based on respect for human rights have been ...
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MEDIA STATEMENT: THE COALITION DEMANDS ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE SHOOTING OF COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS
17 July 2020 For Immediate Release C19 People’s coalition is outraged to learn of the shooting of Community Health Workers in Bhisho, Eastern Cape. On Thursday evening, 16 July, at 7:35pm, Community Health Workers (CHW) who occupied the Eastern Cape ...
Read More »What a people-centred response to Covid-19 would look like
The following article was written by the following people P Benjamin, L Cairncross, L Reynolds, T Naledi, S Cox, M Stevens, I Schoeman, N Vidima, J van Duuren, L Louskieter, S Munshi and published online by the Daily Maverick. In South ...
Read More »Press Release Clear evidence for restrictions on public transport exists
The following statement was issued by The Colleges of Medicine of South Africa 30thJune 2020 The College of Public Health Medicine Task Team for evidence-based COVID-19 guidance released a guidance documentary in the epidemic on the 22ndMarch 2020 regarding public transport. ...
Read More »Report Equity and Justice: Access to Health Technologies for COVID-19
Equity and Justice: Access to Health Technologies for COVID-19 PHM-SA held a webinar on 26th June to explore the challenges facing Civil Society in ensuring equity and justice in Access to new Health Technologies for COVID-19. The webinar had two inputs. ...
Read More »A fundamental shift is required to pool health resources to ensure public sector patients aren’t left behind
The following article was written by Lydia Cairncross, Louis Reynolds and Peter Benjamin who are all steering committee members of The People’s Health Movement South Africa. It was published online by the Daily Maverick. It is time, right now, to prove that ...
Read More »THE SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT (SLA) BETWEEN THE WESTERN CAPE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (WCDOH) AND INDEPENDENT HEALTH CARE SPECIALISTS
The following is the service level agreement between Western Cape Health Department and Independent Health Care Specialists signed on 08 June 2020. COVID-19 RESPONS THE SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT (SLA) BETWEEN THE WESTERN CAPE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (WCDOH) AND INDEPENDENT HEALTH ...
Read More »Thembinkosi Qondela – Sharing beautiful obituary written by Prof Leslie London
Tembi Qondela, who was a researcher in our School from 2003 to 2008, died of COVID-19 related complications in Groote Schuur Tuesday night (2 June 2020). He had developed severe infection, was admitted to Groote Schuur on Friday 29 May ...
Read More »Over 70% of surgeries in SA will be cancelled or postponed due to Covid-19 – how will we catch up?
The article below was co-authored by Dr Lydia Carncross who is our steering committee member. The article was published by Daily Maverick. Health resources are now appropriately focused on Covid-19, but we also need a post-Covid-19 Surgical Recovery Plan to ...
Read More »CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS CALL FOR PRINCIPLED CONTRACTING WITH PRIVATE SECTOR IN THE COVID-19 HEALTH RESPONSE, AS WELL AS MORE COORDINATION AND TRANSPARENCY
The undersigned civil society organisations welcome the measures put in place by government to combat the spread of COVID-19. The nationwide screening, testing and contact tracing programmes are to be commended. We applaud the Department of Health (DOH) for developing ...
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