AAAS Science and Human Rights Program

Truth and Reconciliation: Examining Human Rights Violations in South Africa's Health Care Sector

About this Project

Hearing Transcript 

View the transcript from the Truth & Reconciliation Comission hearings on health care sector violations of human rights. 

HTML Format

PDF Format

• Day 1.pdf 
• Day 2.pdf

 
Reports 

Human Rights and Health: The Legacy of Apartheid
Printed in 1998 at the request of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, this report shows how, during the apartheid period, the leadership of the health sector in South Africa subordinated ethical and human rights obligations to the racist practices and political repression of the state.

Apartheid Medicine: Health and Human Rights in South Africa 
Prepared  in 1989 by a AAAS medical mission of inquiry, this book examines how legal structures and the culture of apartheid denied the majority of South Africans decent health care and contributed to human rights violations in the health care sector. 

Preliminary Submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Concerning the Role of Health Professionals in Gross Violations of Human Rights 
In June 1997, a team composed of AAAS and other co-sponsoring societies made this submission to the TRC hearings on health sector human rights violations. 
 

Sponsoring Organizations 

• AAAS 
• Physicians for Human Rights 
• Committee for Health in South Africa 
• American Psychiatric Association 
• American Public Health Association 
• American Nurses Association

Team Members 

• Gregg Bloche 
• Dr. Audrey Chapman 
• Dr. Robert Lawrence  
• Dr. Marian Gray Secundy 
• Dr. H. Jack Geiger 
• Dr. John Hatch 
• Dr. Vincent Iacopino 
• Leonard Rubenstein 
• Diane Kuntz 
• Dr. Barbara Nichols 

Links 

• Truth and Reconciliation Commission