TB March to National Health Department: all the pics
Check all the images from our march to the National Department of Health in Pretoria.
Check all the images from our march to the National Department of Health in Pretoria.
On the eve of Human Rights Day in South Africa, activists called on government to fulfil its Constitutional mandate.
The TB Accountabilty Consortium and the Treatment Action Campaign handed over a memorandum to officials in the National Department of Health calling for TB to be declared a national health crisis.
TB activists call on the South African government to make TB a national health crisis.
21 February 2024 The TB Accountability Consortium welcomes Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s additional investments in health, his allocations to provinces and his financial commitment to the National Health Insurance. But we reiterate the call to make TB a national health emergency with its own line item in the budget. In his budget vote this week Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana allocated R848 billion over the MTEF to health, noting R11.6 billion would address the 2023 wage agreement, R27.3 billion for infrastructure, and R1.4 billion for the NHI grant over the same period. According to Godongwana, the allocation of R1.4 billion to […]
TB advocates from across the country have gathered in Johannesburg to pledge their allegiance to making putting TB on the national agenda for South Africa. The gathering as the inaugural convening of the TB Accountability Consortium (TBAC) – which is a group seeking to strengthen advocacy efforts in South Africa’s TB response. Themed Inclusivity and Access: Paving the Way for Community-Centred Advocacy, the event emphasized the importance of involving communities in efforts to address TB and get the South African government to declare it a national health emergency. The event was held in Rosebank, and became a nucleus of transformation, […]