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MSF/PHM SA technical brief: Removing intellectual property barriers from COVID19 vaccines and treatment for people in South Africa
We would like to share a tech-brief by the Access Campaign and PHM-SA on removing intellectual property barriers from COVID19 vaccines and treatment for people in South Africa. Emphasising how IP barriers can undermine access to medicines, particularly looking at...
Unequal global vaccine coverage is at the heart of the current covid-19 crisis
The emergence of the omicron variant shows the risks of vaccine inequity, and the response of the global North has been to further discriminate against and isolate the global South The article below was written by Fatima Hassan founding director of HJI, Leslie London...
Solidarity statement with health workers at Groote Schuur Hospital
The following statement was issued by People’s Health Movement South Africa and Health Justice Initiative on 20 Aug 2021 A misplaced and disrespectful call to attend a “Freedom of Choice: No to Mandatory Vaccination Rally” at Groote Schuur this weekend is circulating...
Our Joint Submission for the Inquiry into ‘Ensuring Free and Fair Local Government Elections During COVID-19’
Below is a submission made jointly by PHM-SA and HJI to Justice Dikgang Moseneke for the Inquiry into ‘Ensuring Free and Fair Local Government Elections During COVID-19’ Submission for the Inquiry into ‘Ensuring Free and Fair Local Government Elections During...
SAVE LIVES NOW: SUPPORT THE COVID-19 TRIPS WAIVER
The Doha Declaration states that countries can and should interpret the Agreement on the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in a manner that protects public health, including ensuring access to essential medicines for all. So why are...
Barriers and Enablers to Equitable Access to COVID-19 Health Technologies in South Africa
This rapid situational analysis was conducted during October 2020 to gain insight into the current situation with respect to access to quality health technologies (PPE, diagnostic tests, ventilators) for COVID-19 in South Africa, as well as potential barriers and...
Join Public Webinar: “Barriers and Enablers to Equitable Access to COVID-19 Health Technologies in South Africa”
Join us for a webinar on "Barriers and Enablers to Equitable Access to COVID-19 Health Technologies in South Africa” were the findings of the situational analysis focussing on the South African situation with regards to equitable access to C19 diagnostics, PPE,...
The Importance of Waiver of TRIPS Provision
The EACT team at PHM Global has prepared the below policy brief on the importance of waiver of TRIPS provision (proposed by India, South Africa and other countries) in ensuring access to vaccines, medicine and other technologies to Covid-19. [pdf-embedder...
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 Provincial Health...
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 Africa, Covid-19 didn’t break...