by Kendall | Jun 13, 2013 | Health Assemblies, Home, News & Analysis, NHA
Following some years of coordinating PHM’s Global Right to Health Campaign (RTHC), a Commission was set up in December 2009, tasked with defining the next phase for the global campaign. The Commission was asked to move the campaign from assessment phase to...
by Kendall | Jun 13, 2013 | Home, News & Analysis
A Civil Society Campaign to advocate for the ratification of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and its Optional Protocol, by the South African Government. A Campaign of the Community Law Centre, Socio Economic Rights project,...
by Kendall | Jun 13, 2013 | Home, News & Analysis, NHI
Rationale South Africa has a quadruple burden of disease and failing health systems. This has created a health crisis that continues to worsen. As a response, the Department of Health has proposed a 10-point plan to transform the health system, one of which is the...
by Kendall | Jun 13, 2013 | Health Assemblies, Home, News & Analysis, NHA, NHI
On 5 and 6 July, the People’s Health Movement is hosting the South African National Health Assembly (NHA) in alliance with the National Health Insurance Coalition (NHI). With a quadruple health burden and failing health systems there is a health crisis in South...
by Kendall | Jun 13, 2013 | Health Assemblies, Home, News & Analysis, NHA, NHI
The Third People’s Health Assembly (PHA-3) will take place at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, from 6 – July 2012. It will bring together health activists, civil society, academics, communities, health professionals, social...