Our partners

SECTION27 operates in formal and informal partnerships with a number of organisations.

Primary partnerships

  • Community Media Trust (CMT): CMT is a not for profit company registered in terms of Section 21 of the Companies Act and the Non-Profit Organisations Act. CMT has produced HIV/AIDS public health education material since 1998 under the Siyayinqoba Beat It! brand.
  • Equal Education (EE): Equal Education is a movement of learners, parents, teachers and community members working for quality and equality in South Africa’s education system.  SECTION27 has partnered with Equal Education on their campaign for a school libraries and provides them with legal services.
  • Students for Law and Social Justice (SLSJ): An organisation formed in partnership between students of the University of Cape Town, the University of the Western Cape, University of the North west, University of Kwazulu Natal and the University of Fort Hare.
  • Treatment Action Campaign (TAC): We have represented South Africa’s foremost AIDS activist organisation since its inception. Together we have achieved important successes in access to treatment for people with HIV.

Local partnerships

  • Budget Expenditure and Monitoring Forum (BEMF): this forum has grown out of and seeks to build on the Joint Civil Society Monitoring Forum (JCSMF), which drew together a wide range of civil-society and other non-governmental partners involved in monitoring the implementation of the ARV treatment programme; with a particular focus on budgeting for and public expenditure on the NSP (which includes the ARV treatment programme). BEMF seeks to focus civil society attention on what are arguably the weakest aspects of the NSP.
  • Health-e News Service: We work with this specialist media organisation in order to publicise our work and to provide and receive information.   SECTION27 also provides legal services to the organisation.
  • MSF South Africa: MSF has carried out projects in South Africa since 1999. In 2007, MSF consolidated its presence in the country by opening a delegate office in Johannesburg, which is part of a network of 20 MSF offices worldwide.
  • ProBono.org: We refer cases we receive to this organisation, which has a service that provides free legal assistance to people with HIV and refugees.
  • Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP): This originated as a joint project of the ALP, the Rural Doctors Association of Southern Africa (RuDASA) and the Centre for Rural Health at the University of the Witwatersrand
  • School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg: SECTION27 is formally associated with the School and senior members of SECTION 27 staff have honorary research/senior research status at the School
  • South African National AIDS Council (SANAC): SECTION27 co-ordinates SANAC’s Law & Human Rights Sector and works in partnership with other sectors to ensure implementation of the NSP; in addition, SECTION27’s executive director currently serves as the Deputy Chairperson of SANAC.

Regional and international partnerships

  • AIDS and Rights Alliance for Southern Africa (ARASA): the ALP was a founder member of this regional grouping of law and human-rights organisations and a senior SECTION 27 staff member sits on ARASA’s steering committee.
  • The Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network on HIV & AIDS (KELIN) is a national network which responds to legal, ethical and human rights concerns relating to health and HIV. Formed in 1994 their objective is to undertake advocacy and provide leadership in enhancing human rights approaches in health and HIV strategies and programmes.
  • Korekata Law Centre, Beijing: the ALP established a partnership in 2007 to provide Korekata with strategic guidance, training and exchange visits so as to assist with the promotion of the rule of law and human rights in the response to HIV/AIDS in China, and SECTION 27 will continue this work.
  • Legal Assistance Centre of Namibia (LAC): The LAC’s main objective is to protect the human rights of all Namibians. It is the only organisation of its kind in Namibia. It has a head office in Windhoek, Namibia’s capital, along with two regional offices.
  • O’Neill Institute for Global and National Health Law: Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC.
  • Southern Africa Litigation Centre: Launched in 2005, SALC represents a joint initiative of the International Bar Association (IBA) and the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA).
  • Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR): A not for profit human rights organization whose core objective is to foster a culture of human rights in Zimbabwe as well as encourage the growth and strengthening of human rights at all levels of Zimbabwean society through observance of the rule of law.
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