Author: Salimah Valiani
-
The Crisis of the Care Economy in Africa
A country that attains the passing grade on the UNDP’s Africa Care Economy Index is one that has basic minimum legislation and public spend in place to ensure a population … Keep reading »
-
Fighting the Medical Monopoly: Mobilizing for ZERO-COVID and Decommodified Healthcare
With the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, ‘vaccine nationalism’ is only slightly more rife than the calls against it. The focus on ‘vaccine nationalism’ by critical thinkers and activists misses some … Keep reading »
-
COVID-19 and Patriarchy in the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife
In an effort to shed light on the vital but undervalued labour of predominantly female health professionals, the World Health Organization named 2020 the International Year of the Nurse and … Keep reading »
-
Covid-19 Unmasks Dangers of Commodified Healthcare
The pandemic has shown the need for medical care and interventions that have nothing to do with profit. But not even SA’s proposed National Health Insurance would fit the bill. Keep reading »
-
Building Universal Healthcare in South Africa
Wittingly or unwittingly, the proposal for National Health Insurance (NHI) in South Africa has created two camps: pro-NHI and anti-NHI. But as I argue in a recent article in the … Keep reading »
-
‘Poorly Behaved Nurses’ and Inequality in SA’s Healthcare Sector
Nurses in South Africa get a bad rap. Whether by journalists, politicians, academics, patients or bosses, nurses – particularly in the public sector – are criticized, vilified and scrutinized. Little … Keep reading »
-
Mobilizing Temporary Migrant Workers
A Compendium of Forms and Preliminary Discussion While labour migration has been a recurring phenomenon in human history, what is new in the post-1970 period of restructuring in the world capitalist … Keep reading »