PHM-South-Africa

The National Health Insurance (NHI) - in essence a pooling of public and private resources for healthcare - will potentially increase significantly funds for health, and therefore, it is assumed, improve access for all South Africans to a wider range of services.

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The Right to Health is about people’s access to healthy food, clean water, decent sanitation, adequate housing/shelter, steady employment and proper health information. Because health is determined by so many factors outside the health services, we need to promote people’s understanding of the Social

Determinants of Health as part of the campaign. The campaign must be led by civil society, including many sectors required for the health of communities.

12 November 2008, Center of the Book, Cape Town, South Africa

The launch was chaired by Marian Jacobs; Molefi Sefularo, the Deputy Minister of Health gave an opening speech; Fran Baum spoke on the report of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health; David Sanders gave an overview of GHW2 and Ncwame Cedile spoke about PHM South Africa.

IPHU participants from the 'Africa Group’ have agreed that in order to strengthen the movement, they would each need to first start by working locally, strengthening the PHM activities in their respective countries, Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe. They commited to support each other in developing and strengthening the PHM in each of their countries as they work towards an Africa-wide People’s Health Movement.