News & Analysis

Today the People’s Health Movement of South Africa stands in solidarity with fellow activist and civil societies in demanding the finalization of pro-public health IP policy by 7 May elections! Very recently the Mail and Guardian leaked documents that show how ...

98 community care workers representing over 50 organisations with the Community Care Workers Forum, the Wellness Foundation and the People’s Health Movement of South Africa met to reaffirm the importance of community care workers in South Africa’s health system and ...

Introduction The context of health and ill health in 2013 has remained intensely divided and unequal. These problems have been highlighted in specific parts of the Eastern Cape where the state of health has been declared a crisis by local ...

Peoples’ Health Movement of South Africa hosted its first SAPHU in December 2013. This exciting project was inspired by the urgent need to develop a new layer of health activists in South Africa and was modelled on the tremendously successful of ...

Call  for Applications!  South African People’s Health University 02 – 06 December 2013 University of the Western Cape The People’s Health Movement of South Africa will be hosting the first South African People’s Health University. This course is aimed at health activists ...

Below is a report issued by the People’s Health Movement South Africa on Farm-worker Strikes of 2012-2013 and the Right to Health. This report was made possible with the help of  Alysha Aziz a Fulbright scholarship recipient and volunteer with the People’s Health Movement South Africa. ...

Together with the Leaning Network we will be hosting a Public Meeting:  Claiming the Right To Health. If you are in Cape Town feel free to come join us for a discussion and photo exhibition about the current & potential of health ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...