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@drtlaleng @drtlaleng.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Human rights are key to pandemic response, but today face major headwinds. Join me & @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social on Sept 8 for a discussion the right to health in the face of pandemics amidst today's geopolitics RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Pandemics and Politics:

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Join us for this annual Lecture with Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng, hosted by the Georgetown University Center for Global Health Policy & Politics and the Georgetown University Department of Global Health. Da...

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Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Human rights are key to pandemic response, but today face major headwinds. Join me & @drtlaleng.bsky.social on Sept 8 for a discussion the right to health in the face of pandemics amidst today's geopolitics @georgetownlaw.bsky.social @gtownsoh.bsky.social RSVP forms.gle/MVXjCUT58aka... #globalhealth

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@drtlaleng @drtlaleng.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I’m Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, a medical doctor & the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right of everyone to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, I DEMAND the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya from a brutal detention imposed by Israel. End the genocide.

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Benjamin Alvarez @benjalvarez1.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Here you can find the preliminary observations from UN Special Rapporteur Tlaleng Mofokeng following an official visit to Chile. End of thread. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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Benjamin Alvarez @benjalvarez1.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

"From older persons we heard of being forced to decrease their insurance coverage and move from private to public systems upon retirement, and from deaf women how the lack of sign language interpreters in public institutions creates barriers," @drtlaleng.bsky.social on Chile's health care system.

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Benjamin Alvarez @benjalvarez1.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Lasting impact of the Chilean dictatorship and the 2019 unrest: "My discussions with young people who suffered eye injuries [trauma from state violence in 2019] illustrated more was needed to provide integral reparations to them, including critical psychosocial support."

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Benjamin Alvarez @benjalvarez1.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

On mental health care in Chile: "There is an urgent need for increase in the availability and quality of psycho-social mental health practitioners, specialists and community-based psychiatry for screening, early diagnosis, treatment and follow up to care." @drtlaleng.bsky.social

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Benjamin Alvarez @benjalvarez1.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

During her hospital visits in Chile, UN Special Rapporteur Tlaleng Mofokeng "heard from healthcare workers and administrators who reported overwhelming workloads, unsustainable stress levels, and exposure to violence, including from patients due to frustration with waiting times."

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Benjamin Alvarez @benjalvarez1.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

UN Special Rapporteur Mofokeng: "I repeatedly heard the worrying sentiment that 'in Chile, health is not a right, but a business'. Powerful groups representing vested interests in the health sector with profit-making aims tend to function without the necessary human rights safeguards in Chile."

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Carina van Rooyen @carinavr.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

A letter by @drtlaleng.bsky.social, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, to the Pope on the ongoing genocide in Gaza. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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@drtlaleng @drtlaleng.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

RELEASE Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya! RELEASE Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya! RELEASE Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya! Arrests, detention, enforced disappearances, ill-treatment, torture, and killings of healthcare workers by the Israeli authorities is against international law.

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Shaun Mellors @shaunmellors.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

"When people are denied their right to education, or their right to an adequate standard of living, they are in consequence denied their right to health" @drtlaleng.bsky.social writes in @unaids.bsky.social #WorldAIDSDay Report www.unaids.org/sites/defaul...

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@drtlaleng @drtlaleng.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng 💛💙💛

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