Press Releases & Media Statements
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and
UN WOMEN discriminate sex
workers by calling them
“prostitutes” in 2020
Johannesburg, Sunday, 26 July 2020
Show Me Your Number is disappointed in the former Deputy
President of South Africa and current Executive Director of UN
Women, Ms. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s comments on sex
work and about sex workers. When she was the Deputy
President of South Africa, Mlambo-Ngcuka served as the
Chairperson of the South African National AIDS Council
(SANAC) where she championed the rights of sex workers to be
included in SANAC so that they can be heard and be part of
solutions to ending HIV. We ask ourselves what has made her
change that position that now she is the Executive Director of
UN WOMEN. Mlambo-Ngcuka allegedly said in a UN Women
webinar on Monday, 20 July 2020 that all women within the sex
industry were victims and those paying for the services were
perpetrators.
Click here to read the full release…
TLD (Tenofovir + Lamivudine +
Dolutegravir) regiment is the
best solution for people living
with TB, HIV
22 May 2020
SANAC Civil Society Forum, a constituent member of the
Community Constituency Covid19 Front (CCCF) in responding to
the statement by the Gauteng Health Department on Tuesday,
19 May 2020 that over 11 thousand of TB and HIV-positive
patients have failed to collect their medication since the start of
the lockdown on 27 March 2020 is an issue that requires a
combination of treatment literacy and ongoing social
mobilisation for those infected, their families and communities.
Adherence to treatment is the bedrock of gains made in South
Africa’s response to HIV and TB as outlined in the National
Strategic Plan on HIV, TB & STIs.
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Covid-19 Risk for 7,5 million
People Living With HIV
in South Africa
April 2020
Goal 3 of the South Africa’s National Strategic Plan for HIV, TB
and STIs 2017 - 2022 stipulates that we reach all Key and
vulnerable population with customised and targeted
interventions. During this time we should remain steadfast in
protecting our People living with HIV (PLHIV). We ask that we all
stay in your homes so that we are able to reduce the spread of
Covid19 and the risk of secondary infection to PLHIV.
There is no evidence that the risk of infection or complications
of COVID-19 is different among people living with HIV who are
on antiretroviral treatment when compared with the general
population.
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Show Me Your Number hands
over HIV icons paintings to
SANAC
Johannesburg, Wednesday, 30 September 2020
SMYN handed over 4 paintings by Jakes Mbele to the SANAC
Trust’s Acting CEO, Ms. Coiceka Nogoduka. The creative master
pieces are a contribution by Show Me Your Number in its
capacity as SANAC Civil Society Forum (CSF) Sports, Art and
Culture Sector participant organisation and national secretariat.
The art works will be placed in 4 boardrooms at SANAC head
offices in Hatfield in response to HIV, Aids and TB aligned to the
90-90-90 strategy and the NSP 2017 to 2022.
The 4 portraits are that of Nelson Mandela, Gugu Dlamini,
Prudence Mabele and Nkosi Johnson with each boardroom
named after these icons. These South African iconic figures
have played a significant role globally by raising awareness on
HIV at the height of stigma and discrimination against People
Living with HIV. They challenged the status quo and changed
health national policies. These works of art also represent the
different boardroom in the SANAC office and which embodies
the personalities of the icons.
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Lethukhukhanaya Health
Instititution address Human
Rights Violations by Sex
Workers as contribution to
end HIV & AIDS
Johannesburg, Monday, 30 November 2020
Human Rights Implementing Partner Organisation IPO
Lethukhukhanaya Health Institution is one of four host
organisation in City of Johannesburg in the World Aids Day
2020 Policy in Action activity programme. Their role is to
reduce Stigma and Discrimination in response to HIV, Aids
and TB as stipulated by the 90-90-90 strategy and the NSP
2017 to 2022 at district level. The Deputy President of South
Africa, David Dabede Mabuza, is the current Chairperson of
the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC). The
Deputy President will visit community project as part of the
POLICY IN ACTION to see how the World AIDS Day 2020
theme “WE’RE IN THIS TOGETHER, CHEKA IMPILO” is finding
expression through implementation of by civil society
organisations.
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Show Me Your Number and
Dumakahle using the power
of music to eradicate stigma
and discrimination in support
of People Living with HIV
Johannesburg, Monday, 5 October 2020
Show Me Your Number has forged a new partnership with
Dumakahle Entertainment in the response to eradicate
stigma and discrimination by strengthening voices of Key
Populations at district level. Mpilo Seluleko Nkosi, CEO of
Dumakahle, Maskandi Producer and song writer of the
master piece “Angimazi ubaba Wengane” was approached
by IPO Support Officer Siphamandla ‘Desh’ Dlhamini as our
Human Rights Ambassadors to use the power of music to
educated communities on HIV and TB prevention, testing
and screening as well as adherence to treatment.
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Traditional Leaders Launch
the Communities Matter
Survey in 20 Districts
Johannesburg, Monday, 30 November 2020
Traditional Leaders sector launched the Communities
Matter Survey in 20 Districts, supported by the South
African National AIDS Council Civil Society Forum (SANAC
CSF) by 25 sector leaders approached the UN Agencies
through the Office of the South African UN Resident
Coordinator for support of the Community Based Measures
Strategy for COVID-19.
The Traditional Leaders sector with its Chiefs mobilised 50
mobilisers in all 9 provinces and operational in 20 districts.
The objective is to implement Advocacy, Social Mobilisation
and Communications & Public Awareness aspects of the
Community Based Measures Strategy for COVID-19.
Click here to read the full release…
Minister of Health appoints
new Council for medical
schemes regulator
Pretoria, Thursday, 3 December 2020
The Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize has announced the
new Council for the Council for Medical Schemes
(CMS), taking into account the interests of members and
medical schemes.
The 15-head strong structure is empowered by the Medical
Schemes Act (131 of 1998) and represents a variety of
skills and backgrounds, and include experts in law, finance,
actuarial sciences, economics, medical sciences,
corporate governance and consumer affairs.
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You are invited to the
WEBINAR
I AM HUMAN – Breaking down barriers and
standing up for Human Rights
Thursday, 10 December 2020 at 17h30
Tune in to the live stream through the following platforms
as we reflect on what we have done to address Human
Rights as we navigate our way through COVID-19:
Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89438790359?pwd=NEtjRlBEUE
w1emF0dENaRnVITDJ5QT09
Facebook: www.facebook.com/showmeyournumber
Twitter: www.twitter.com/SMYN_Ndorondoro
Instagram: www.instagram.com/showmeyournumber
Host: Palesa Komane
Speakers:
• Thabo Majuja
• Belinda Lerutoane
• IPO representative (tbc)
• Legal practitioners (tbc)
BACKGROUND
This year’s International Human Rights Day theme relates to
the COVID-19 pandemic and focuses on the need to build
back better by ensuring Human Rights are central to
recovery efforts. We will reach our common global goals
only if we are able to create equal opportunities for all,
address the failures exposed and exploited by COVID-19,
and apply human rights standards to tackle entrenched,
systematic, and intergenerational inequalities, exclusion and
discrimination.
10 December is an opportunity to reaffirm the importance
of human rights in re-building the world we want, the need
for global solidarity as well as our interconnectedness and
shared humanity. Under UN Human Rights’ generic call to
action “Stand Up for Human rights” and South Africa’s
Breaking down barriers to address Human Rights, Show Me
Your Number together with the 25 Implementing Partner
Organisations and other partners it works with on
implementing the Stigma & Discrimination will be reflecting
on our journey in 2020 as we prepare to up the game in
2021. I am HUMAN because we all are HUMAN and we need
to ensure that our actions contribute towards breaking the
barriers the infringe on the HUMAN RIGHTS of others.