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People’s Health Movement South Africa (PHMSA) welcomes the reappointment of Dr Aaron Motsoaledi as South Africa’s Minister of Health. We applaud his commitment to the health of the nation and to the principles of Primary Health Care. We realise that ...

The press statement below got released by Civil Society Organisations in Geneva during the World Health Assembly, in protest of Melinda Gates being invited to address the World Health Organisation.  We the undersigned organizations express our strong protest against the decision ...

PHM Nigeria Statement on the Abducted Chibok School Girls People’s Health Network Initiative Nigeria (PHM Nigeria) strongly condemns the abduction of over 200 girls by the Boko Haram (Jama’atu Ahlus Sunnah Lidda Awati Wal Jihad) from their school premises in ...

Dr Wouter Basson’s Sentencing – People’s Health Movement South  Africa, Calls for Civil Society and Individuals to endorse our statement From 1981 to 1992, Dr Wouter Basson was the head of the SADF’s secret Chemical and Biological Warfare Programme, Project Coast. He ...

  The People’s Health Movement of South Africa marches today in solidarity with TAC for the issues raised in the memorandum. We believe that the achievements made in the treatment of HIV/AIDS and TB stand to be eroded by ongoing ...

As a supporter and friend of PHMSA, we hope you will be able to attend the April Member’s Meeting of the People’s Health Movement South Africa Circle. These meetings take place every second month. We hope to make these meetings ...

The article below was written by Emily Charrison, published online by In Daily Independent News  Future doctors and health care professionals are not being effectively taught to address the “causes of the causes” in health curricula, an international public health expert ...

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 ...