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Johannesburg — The Stop Stockout Project has drawn attention to challenges in accessing contraceptives at public health clinics across South Africa in its"Difficulties in accessing contraceptives violates or limit women's sexual and reproductive health rights, including their right to life, health, privacy, education, equality, freedom and security and of their dignity," said Candice Sehoma, Access Campaign Advocacy Officer for Doctors Without Borders or Médecins Sans...
Ritshidze is a project being implemented by organizations representing people living with HIV—including the Treatment Action Campaign , the National Association of People Living with HIV , Positive Action Campaign, Positive Women's Network and the South African Network of Religious Leaders Living with and affected by HIV/Aids —in alliance with Health Global Access Project , the Foundation for AIDS Research , and Georgetown University's O'Neill Institute for National and Global...
found that since SSP began surveying the issue of medicine stockouts in 2013, overall medicine stock-outs situation in South Africa has broadly improved significantly of those reported and contraceptives now represent the biggest share of stockouts in the public healthcare system. While 6.9% of patients reported a stockout when at a clinic, 40% of these were stockouts of a contraceptive. Within the contraceptives category, 76.3% of stockouts reported were injectables.
This is despite Section 27 of the South African constitution that provides that everyone has the right to have access to health care services, including reproductive health care services and no one may be refused emergency medical treatment. Twala says failure to prioritise access to contraceptives for all who wish to access them is a failure by the government to prioritise the lives of women and girls across the country.
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