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Great coverage of our joint march to parliament calling for an urgent response to TB, including nice quote from Sonke Community Action Team member Mthetho Molekazi: “A former prisoner and now member of the Sonke Gender Justice and Beyond the …
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Sonke Gender Justice, Treatment Action Campaign, United Front, People’s Health Movement and other civil organisations marched to parliament in support of TAC, to demand attention and call upon MPs and the government to take drastic measures to fight TB and …
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Coming soon to your local community radio station is “Thuthuzeleka”, a crime/thriller series commissioned by Sonke Gender Justice. Recognising the role of radio as a unique and powerful medium to reach and influence communities, Sonke has contracted CMFD (Community Media …
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Sonke Gender Justice and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), represented by Section27, have applied to become “amici curiae” – friends of the court – in a looming landmark lawsuit by 56 miners who seek to hold South African gold mining …
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A historic lawsuit presents the best opportunity to date to end the impunity with which mining companies exploit workers.
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Sonke’s Dean Peacock and Emily Nagisa Keehn and the Treatment Action Campaign’s Anele Yawa write in the Mail & Guardian about mine workers afflicted with silicosis and/or TB launching a historic class action lawsuit for compensation.
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TAC’s call for the dismissal of Benny Malakoane, Free State Health minister, incited retaliation from the ministry and its supporters.
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Appalled reactions to the Free State ANC’s decision to de-register the TAC in the region.
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Pleas from Civil Society Organisations are met with apathy and evasion on the part of the government.
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Sonke and partners’ letters and media statements calling for the reinstatement of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on HIV and AIDS.
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The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were established in the year 2000, aimed to improve the life for the world’s poorest and the most vulnerable by the year 2015. The MDGs have been a milestone in global and national development …
This Call for Action outlines MenEngage Africa’s priority goals within the Post-2015 Development Agenda and includes suggestions on how engaging men contributes to each of the proposed new 12 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The engagement of men as allies in …
Sonke Gender Justice is concerned that global health system failures to adequately engage men in testing and treatment services, and the absence of global and national policies to address this, threaten to undermine HIV prevention efforts and prevent us from …
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Sonke’s Policy and Development Advocacy Specialist discusses the dangers of inconsistently treating HIV positive inmates.
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This information package on men, gender equity and health looks at how gender roles affect the health of both men and women. It addresses health problems including HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health, communicable disease, chronic disease and mental health, as …
In societies most affected by HIV/AIDS, it is a country’s military institutions, and the men and women who serve in them, that are often hardest hit. The rate of HIV infection is often much higher in the armed forces than …
Today (September 26, 2014) is World Contraception Day and the South African HIV Prevention Research Advocacy Expert Group (which is housed at Sonke Gender Justice) and partners have written to South African government officials to request that they strongly support …
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Important points regarding how the introduction of female condoms needs to be met with widespread attitude changes from men.
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