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Using data-driven advocacy to effect change for marginalised and vulnerable populations in SA

When: Thursday, 13 February 2025 - Thursday, 13 February 2025
Where: Hybrid Event
Parktown Management Campus
SCIS Seminar Room, North Lodge Building, Parktown Management Campus
Start time:12:30
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athenkosi.pono@wits.ac.za

kitso.kgaboesele@wits.ac.za

 
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SCIS invites you to a seminar on Using data-driven advocacy to effect change for marginalised and vulnerable populations in South Africa on 13 Feb '25

The Southern Centre for Inequality Studies invites you to a hybrid seminar titled Using Data-driven Advocacy to effect change for marginalised and vulnerable populations in South Africa by Ngqabutho Nceko Mpofu on 13 February 2025, 12:30 - 14:00.  


Abstract:
The deprioritisation of the public healthcare system in South Africa in the past decade runs counter to the promise contained in Section 27 of the Constitution. It has resulted in significant disparities in health outcomes in a country with clinics in crisis and the largest global burden of HIV and TB. There has been a growing recognition of the pivotal role communities play in responding to the most pertinent issues of the day, with directly impacted communities leading efforts to hold duty bearers to account through community-led monitoring (CLM). Through this burgeoning field of inquiry, key data has been collected, analysed and used to improve health outcomes through advocacy initiatives.

This session will highlight key gains and setbacks made in the HIV response through an analysis of longitudinal data collected by and about the most marginalised communities, highlighting the continued dangers posed to South Africa reaching its 95-95-95 targets. It will also set key recommendations necessary to achieve this important goal of ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.


About the speaker:
Ngqabutho Nceku Mpofu is the Policy, Communications, and Research Manager at the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), a South African membership-based, patient-led social justice organization. The organization has almost 10,000 fully paid members from 8 of South Africa’s 9 provinces. It operates in 36 of South Africa’s 52 districts. Ngqabutho was a Cameron Schrier Fellow at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) in 2024.

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