On Monday, 30 September, from 1pm to 2.30pm, the South African Successfully being Technologies Advocacy Coalition hosts a webinar on unpacking the Twice-Yearly Lenacapavir injection for HIV prevention and its implication for the communities.
The coalition is a network of NGOs seeking to catalyse action on properly being learn and fashion through coordinated advocacy to assemble better entry to lifesaving products, technologies, and innovations.
The theme of the discussion is HIV prevention, biomedical solutions, picks, and entry — getting the products to the fingers of the opposite folks, and will be moderated by Neetha Morar, Senior Compare Manager of the HIV and diversified Infectious Ailments Compare Unit at the South African Clinical Compare Council.
Professor Linda-Gail Bekker, the director of the Desmond Tutu Successfully being Foundation, will offer a presentation on PURPOSE 1 and PURPOSE 2, Share 3 double-blind multicentre trials conducted in numerous countries.
PURPOSE 1 used to be conducted in South Africa and Uganda, and demonstrated 100% efficacy of Lenacapavir (LEN) injections when old amongst adolescent girls and young ladies in Africa, raising hopes of curbing the HIV epidemic.
PURPOSE 2 enrolled 3,200 people all over 88 sites in seven countries, in conjunction with cisgender men, transgender men, transgender ladies, and gender non-binary folks. The teach of the the same investigational drug as PURPOSE 1 (Lenacapavir), it learned the drug to be 96% efficient in battling HIV. These results offer extra HIV prevention solutions for inclined groups in low- and middle-earnings countries
“These findings now not perfect point out remarkably solid data, they additionally spotlight the inclusive, particular person-centred HIV learn and fashion efforts that underpin the PURPOSE 2 trial. As advocates, it’s critical to maintain a decided understanding of these results and their affect on the HIV prevention learn landscape,” the South African Successfully being Technologies Advocacy Coalition said.
Yvette Raphael, the executive director of Advocates for the Prevention of HIV in Africa, will additionally be a part of the discussion
Register for the webinar here.
Additionally on Monday, 30 September, at 2pm, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) South Africa hosts a youth webinar on inexperienced hydrogen’s feature in South Africa’s procure zero transition.
“As a wanted solution for arduous-to-decarbonise sectors, inexperienced hydrogen and its derivatives offer critical benefits however additionally elevate ability social, financial, and environmental challenges,” the organisation said.
The discussion will detect critical sides and discuss wanted concerns for enforcing a inexperienced hydrogen financial system that supports an even transition by taking part with youth people about their perspectives on the issues and their advocacy efforts interior their communities.
Register to be a a part of the conversation here.
Additionally on Monday, at 4 pm, the Desmond Tutu Successfully being Foundation will host the Khulani Siphile Siphuhle Practicing Programme Bi-Weekly seminar titled “They Raise Disease, Then Raise Treatment”: Confronting Colonialism and Racism in World Successfully being.
“World properly being institutions in most cases explicitly endorse principles comparable to properly being equity, factual to properly being and antiracism. Alternatively, nearer scrutiny finds an implicit feature of world properly being institutions to lend a hand the highly efficient interests of the World North elite.”
In discussion with Professor Sanghyuk Shin, an infectious illness epidemiologist and world properly being scholar at the University of California, the seminar will unpack the dynamics of world properly being through case experiences gripping HIV, TB and the continuing public properly being crisis in Gaza.
“The seminar will defend in thoughts ideas of constructing energy amongst civil society people to promote properly being equity and justice,” the foundation said.
Venue: Desmond Tutu Successfully being Foundation Workplaces in East London: 57 Western Avenue, Vincent, East London.
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On Tuesday, 1 October, till Thursday, 3 October, My Vote Counts will be web set hosting its 30 Years of Democracy Gathering to seriously mirror on the past three a protracted time and reclaim a democracy from beneath.
“This yr marks 30 years for the explanation that formalisation of South Africa’s democracy. A second that used to be introduced forth by in fashion and democratic forms of organisation in communities and offices. It used to be catalysed by the formation of student actions, the alternate union inch, civic and faith-based mostly fully mostly organisations and communities that straight confronted the apartheid assert… 30 years later, millions are excluded from employment, housing, stable communities, entry to water and electricity, quality education and properly being care, and enough food to are living a first payment lifestyles,” My Vote Counts said.
The Gathering will host people of social actions, alternate unions, activists and lecturers at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg. The 2.5-day programme will consist of plenary sessions, workshops and roundtables the set people will mirror on the past three a protracted time and a reclaiming of democracy from beneath.
Register to affix the procure The Gathering on-line here.
Additionally, on Wednesday, 2 October, at 1pm, the Helen Suzman Foundation will host a webinar on global anti-corruption mechanisms. That is the second instalment within the foundation’s South Africa within the World collection.
The speakers consist of Justice Richard Goldstone in his skill as the vice-chairperson of Integrity Initiatives Worldwide; Professor Firoz Cachalia, the chairperson of the Nationwide Anti-Corruption Advisory Council and Michael Marchant, the head of investigations at Initiating Secrets. Professor Prosper Maguchu from the VU Amsterdam University will facilitate the discussion.
Tune into the webinar here.
On Thursday, 3 October, at 10am, Corruption Witness will originate the Easiest Apply Book on Community Consultation within the South African Extractives Substitute, as piece of our Rallying Efforts to Spin up Development in Africa Venture.
The handbook, which used to be developed in partnership with Webber Wentzel, offers a framework for consultations that mining corporations can undertake to mitigate the challenges faced with the present session objects, incorporating in fashion norms drawn from local and global supreme practices. It additionally defines the complicated constructions that exist in communities in rural South Africa to boot to the competing land rights held at diversified intersections by heaps of groups, folks, and households below an umbrella of feeble communities.
In-particular person venue: Workshop17, 138 West Avenue, Sandown, Sandton.
RSVP for in-particular person attendance to: [email protected]
Register here for virtual attendance.
On Saturday, 5 October at 10 am, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, in partnership with a collective of civil society organisations, will withhold a order march to Parliament calling for boycott, disinvestment and sanctions in opposition to Israel.
“The seventh of October 2024 will be one yr since Hamas led an armed breakout from the Gaza focus camp and attacked Israel. Since then, the Israeli regime has escalated its brutal genocide upon the Palestinian other folks in Gaza and the West Monetary institution as its closing solution to execute the Palestinians and their strive in opposition to for freedom.”
The order will open up at the corner of Hanover and Chapel streets, District Six, sooner than making its technique to Parliament. DM
