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#Health Is A Fundamental #HumanRight @PHMSA1

To improve the capacity of individuals & communities to realise their right to health and health care, & to advocate for a Primary Health Care approach. PHM-SA

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Community members brainstormed solutions for SA to this CC and health crisis, including increasing community gardens, more composting and more education. “Local activists are needed!”
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Funeka Menze, community health worker: In the past 20 years, we have seen these floods increase, and the winters become colder. More people need fires to keep warm. We used to be able to walk across the village in the summer, but now we are seeing more mosquitoes due to CC.
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Doctor @LouisGeorgeVonB Reynolds: We need to move the practice of health out of the hospitals and into the communities for multiple reasons…We’ve seen that when there’s a flood, access to healthcare is cut off.
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Prof James Irlam: We've recently seen Hanta virus and Ebola. The resurgence of both is rooted in changes to the ecosystem. We aren't trying to frighten people, but to empower all for action!
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Prof James Irlam: The Lancet declared CC is the greatest threat to health in the 21st century. How can we make this an opportunity for public health? We need to change our energy systems. We need to change our dependence on coal-powered stations.
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Today is World Environment Day. What does it mean to commemorate this day when we are facing grave challenges to our health? Join us as we discuss how climate change is impacting our health! #WorldEnvironmentDay
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Join the #Health Struggle For #Palestine. #Healthcare in #Gaza and the #WestBank is under relentless attack. Hospitals, clinics, healthcare workers, and medical infrastructure continue to be targeted amid ongoing mass atrocities. Register to attend tinyurl.com/536yamk2
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The @WHO has identified climate change as the greatest threat to human health in the 21st Century. Join our World Environmental Day Public Meeting - Health and the Climate Crisis. 5 June 1pm tinyurl.com/mry4jxbx We will be exploring factors linking health with climate change.
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Join our Annual General Meeting (AGM) and the launch of the 7th Global Health Watch book, AGM Details: -Wednesday, 22 April, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM - Venue: 129 Rochester Road, Observatory, Cape Town You can pre-order your copy of the book now for R225.00 Contact tinashe@phm-sa.org
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Ahead of the #MTBS we have joined the movements outside @ParliamentofRSA that a calling for a #PeoplesBudget #NoToBudgetCuts #NoToPrivitisation #TaxTheRich and fund more on Public Service @equal_education @_cosatu @AIDC_RSA @FEDUSAMedia
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We are at the Prof David Sandees Memorial lecture hosted by @UWCSOPH you may watch the Livestream here youtube.com/live/d9hzRI9RepA

Annual David Sanders Lecture in Public Health and Social Justice 2025

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🌐 What’s Missing from the UN’s Political Declaration on NCDs? NCDs cause 43M deaths yearly, 82% in developing countries. Yet the UN Political Declaration risks repeating past failures. Join the next webinar as we unpack the political economy of NCDs tinyurl.com/y3te62m2
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📢 ADD YOUR VOICE! 🖊️ Sign this petition to demand strong, active Clinic Committees in every clinic in South Africa! 🩺✊🏽 ➡️ awethu.amandla.mobi/petition… 🗣️ #OurClinicOurVoice #ClinicCommittees #HealthJustice
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Today #WorldHungerDay join call to end hunger in South Africa. 20 mil people go to bed hungry everyday, 30 million experience monthly financial difficulties that put them at risk of going without food. Yet we produce enough food to feed everyone #UnionAgainstHunger @UAH_za
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Join the call by signing the petition here awethu.amandla.mobi/petition…

Shoprite, bring your food prices down!

Over the years, many organisations have built public pressure to increase and top up social grants. But even if we get the significant social grant increases we have been demanding, the cost of...

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"Land for private developments is made available up next to poor communities but there is no land for community gardens." Sisi Andiswa of #MasiphumeleleCreativeHub @UAH_za @Women_On_Farms #EndHungerNow #HealthForAllNow
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"Because farm workers are seasonal workers they experience food insecurity, lack of food in the house in leds to tension and gender based violence" Colette Solomon from @Women_On_Farms @UAH_za #CapeTown #WorldHungerDay Indaba. #EndHungerNow #HealthForAll
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Privileged to be  attending the Union Against Hunger's @UAH_za #WorldHungerDay mini-indaba in #CapeTown
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Join the webinar - critical reflection from a social justice perspective on the WHO we have and the WHO we need, inviting deep discussion ahead of WHA78 and encouraging participants to rethink global health governance 7 May 12:00-13:30pm UTC time tinyurl.com/WHA78preparing
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Media Alert: CHW Indaba happening tomorrow 30 April 2025. Join the Indaba as it will address pressing challenges faced by CHWS and propose solutions. @HealtheNews @Bhekisisa_MG @UWCSOPH @City_Press @SABCNews_Radio @HealthJusticeIn @Bushradio @etv @SABCNews @eNCA @Newzroom405
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