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Aug 21, 2024 | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Biénne Huisman |Amy Green |Aneesa Adams |Jesse Copelyn
Sister Sandra Bryant blows bubbles inside her clinic room at Chinn's Corner Pharmacy in Cape Town. (Photo: Biénne Huisman/Spotlight) News & Features21st August 2024 | Biénne Huisman Sister Sandra Bryant runs her clinic in a lilac painted room, where glitter cream and a disco ball does not seem out of place next to scissors, syringes, and needles.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
spotlightnsp.co.za | Aneesa Adams |Julia Chaskalson |Mbali Baduza |Zukiswa Kota
Dr Vuyiseka Dubula-Majola, the former General Secretary of the Treatment Action Campaign, reflects on her journey and new role at the Global Fund. PHOTO: Joyrene Kramer News & Features5th December 2023 | Biénne Huisman Dressed in a dark jacket, rain is pelting Vuyiseka Dubula-Majola’s face as she rushes past bare trees in Geneva, Switzerland. Along with her two children, Dubula-Majola has newly moved into a house in nearby Genthod, from where she commutes to work by train.
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Oct 24, 2023 | 
section27.org.za | Aneesa Adams
SECTION27 is a well-established and widely respected public interest law centre that seeks to achieve substantive equality and social justice in South Africa. Guided by the principles and values in the Constitution, SECTION27 uses law in advocacy, legal literacy, research, community mobilisation and precedent-setting litigation to achieve access to healthcare services and basic education, build important jurisprudence and strengthen government accountability.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
allafrica.com | Aneesa Adams
In a pivotal case for access to affordable medicines in South Africa, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Southern Africa - represented by SECTION27 - earlier this year came together to help champion access to lifesaving new cystic fibrosis treatments.
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Aneesa Adams
SPOTLIGHT OP-ED A pivotal case for access to affordable medicines in South Africa is set to determine whether people in South Africa will be able to get access to breakthrough cystic fibrosis treatments. Aneesa Adams spent some time with a family living with cystic fibrosis to get a sense of what is at stake.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
shorturl.at | Aneesa Adams
Page 1 of 12JOINT SUBMISSION BY SECTION27 AND THE TREATMENT ACTION CAMPAIGN ONTHE NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE BILL B11B-2019A. Introduction1. This is a joint submission by SECTION27 and the Treatment Action Campaign inaccordance with the Select Committee on Health and Social Services’ call for writtensubmissions on the National Health Insurance B11B-2019 (“the Current Bill”).
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
section27.org.za | Aneesa Adams
12 September 2023 – SECTION27 and Blind SA will make oral submissions before the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (“the Committee”) during its 18th Pre-Sessional Working Group on 12 September 2023. The oral submissions are based on SECTION27 and Blind SA’s joint, written submissionsdelivered to the Committee in July this year, and highlight key challenges that persons who are blind or visually impaired, including learners, experience in South Africa.
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Sep 6, 2023 | 
section27.org.za | Aneesa Adams
6 September 2023, Johannesburg – The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) and SECTION27 welcome the judgment handed down by the High Court of South Africa (Gauteng Division, Pretoria) in the matter of Thubakgale and Others v Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality and Others on 29 August 2023.
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
section27.org.za | Aneesa Adams
Over the past 4 years, SECTION27 and TAC have diligently monitored abortion service access in the Eastern Cape. Through interviews, facility visits, and interactions with the Eastern Cape Department of Health, we’ve identified numerous barriers: limited second-trimester abortion facilities, a shortage of trained providers and equipment, and high demand. This shortfall forces many women into the hands of illegal abortion providers, underscoring the urgent need for improvement.
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Aug 24, 2023 | 
section27.org.za | Aneesa Adams
24 August 2023, Johannesburg – The Right to Read Campaign, made up of organisations that include the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), Equal Education (EE), and SECTION27, invite you to their launch, on Wednesday, 30 August 2023. The 2021 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) results released in May revealed that 81% of grade 4 learners in South Africa cannot read for meaning in any language by the end of the Foundation Phase.
