Resources - Health Justice Initiative (HJI)

Recent Updates

Updates

Research

Oct 24, 2022

Issue Paper 1: National Health Insurance Paper Series

20-min

Jul 15, 2022

Podcasts

40-min

Jul 1, 2022

Opinion Pieces and Statements Posts

HJI Educational Material

Jun 30, 2022

The WTO DEAL explainer

Educational Material, Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation

23-min

Jun 23, 2022

TRIPS WAIVER Negotiations – Leaked Text

Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation

May 12, 2022

Calgary Peace Prize speech: Vaccine apartheid is racist and wrong

Litigation

HJI Social Posts

Apr 7, 2022

The Health Justice Initiative approaches courts to make expert Covid-19 pandemic advice and decisions public

Litigation, Transparency, Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation

Open the vaccine contracts! v2

Feb 22, 2022

The HJI launches litigation for disclosure of South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccine contracts

Litigation, Transparency, Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation

Litigation

May 13, 2021

Competition Commission and Dis-Chem Pharmacies Ltd

Litigation

May 13, 2021

Babelegi Workwear and Industrial Supplies CC v. The Competition Commission

Litigation

May 12, 2021

Solidarity and Afriforum vs Minister of Health and 16 Others

Submissions

75-min

Jul 9, 2021

Health Justice Initiative Submission on Copyright Amendment Bill [B13B-2017]

Submissions, Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation

75-min

Jun 28, 2021

HJI and People’s Health Movement – South Africa submission to Moseneke Inquiry into Ensuring Free and Fair Local Government Elections during COVID-19

75-min

Jun 3, 2021

SALRC Project: Repeal of Colonial and apartheid legislation

Sex work and health equity, Submissions

75-min

Apr 19, 2021

Proposed Vaccine Injury Scheme

Submissions, Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation

75-min

Apr 19, 2021

HJI Submission on Vaccine Injury No-Fault Compensation Scheme

Submissions, Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation

Jan 7, 2021

HJI’s Commentary on Governments Presentation of its ‘Vaccine Strategy’

Commentary, Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation

Statements & op-eds

Aug 16, 2021

Johnson & Johnson diverted South African vaccines to US and Europe during worst Covid-19 outbreak

Press Release, Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation

Jul 28, 2021

Health Justice Initiative (HJI) statement on Access to Information Requests and Vaccine Contracts

Press Release, Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation

Jul 16, 2021

Health Justice Initiative (HJI) Statement on unrest in South Africa

Press Release, Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation

Jul 7, 2021

Joint HJI & PHM Press Release on DoH Special Categories

Press Release, Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation

May 6, 2021

HJI welcomes the US government support of the ‘TRIPS Waiver’

Press Release, Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation

Mar 3, 2021

HJI statement on Afriforum & Solidarity’s withdrawal of its vaccine procurement urgent application

Op-eds

40-min

Jul 1, 2022

Opinion Pieces and Statements Posts

40-min

Aug 16, 2021

Profiteering from vaccine inequity: a crime against humanity?

Opinion Pieces, Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation

40-min

May 14, 2021

Stigma, Denial of Health Services, and Other Human Rights Violations Faced by Sex Workers in Africa

40-min

May 11, 2021

Private-public politics: State control crucial for vaccine equity and to stop queue-jumping by the rich

Opinion Pieces, Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation

40-min

Mar 25, 2021

“Why South Africa’s HIV prevention programmes should include sex worker clients”

40-min

Feb 23, 2021

Don’t Let Drug Companies create a system of Vaccine Apartheid

Explainers

HJI Educational Material

Jun 30, 2022

The WTO DEAL explainer

Educational Material, Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation

HJI Social Posts

Apr 7, 2022

Fact-sheet: Case 2 – Open Decision-Making

Educational Material

Open the vaccine contracts! v2

Feb 22, 2022

Fact-sheet: Case 1 – Open Contracts

Educational Material

HJI Educational Material

Aug 23, 2021

Explainer on Vaccine Licenses for Covid-19

Educational Material, Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation

HJI Educational Material

Jul 12, 2021

Vaccine Literacy Train-the-Trainer Manual

Educational Material, Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation

HJI Educational Material

Jun 4, 2021

Frequently Asked Questions: The TRIPS waiver and the WTO

Educational Material, Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation

NHI Paper Series

Research

Oct 24, 2022

Issue Paper 1: National Health Insurance Paper Series

HJI in the media

20-min

Jul 15, 2022

Podcasts

Apr 9, 2022

HJI in the media – 2022

Dec 25, 2021

HJI in the media – 2021

20-min

May 14, 2021

Podcast: ACCESS

20-min

Mar 28, 2021

Vaccine round table: Ray White discusses South Africa vaccine roll out EWN

Podcasts, Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation

20-min

Mar 26, 2021

COVID and the Right to Health

Podcasts, Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation

Events

Oct 14, 2021

5% Continent Series

Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation, Webinars

Oct 13, 2021

Yale GHJP and LPE Vaccine Access Webinar – HOW TO VACCINATE THE WORLD

Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation, Webinars

Aug 10, 2021

HJI/Mandela Institute Webinar Series on the TRIPS Waiver

May 5, 2021

Patients in a Pandemic: From Advocacy to Action. Protecting rights and balancing responsibilities in an exhausted healthcare system

Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation, Webinars

Apr 17, 2021

Public meeting on the issue of vaccine nationalism

Apr 15, 2021

Yale Healthcare Conference – Session: Global Disparities in COVID-19 Response

Conferences, Vaccine Equity, Access and Allocation