National Health Insurance (NHI) introduction must be the start of radical review South Africa is in a daunting phase of fiscal austerity which began globally in 2008 and ...
Community health workers (CHWs) traditionally played a role in supporting the delivery of high priority interventions relating to HIV, TB and maternal and child health. W ...
The relationship between poverty, healthcare and poor health outcomes has been well established; not only do poor people experience higher burdens of disease because of v ...
RHAP’s new Director Russell Rensburg was one of the Commissioner’s of this high-level commission looking into the state of quality healthcare in South Africa. ...
The Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has announced the creation of more than 5 300 posts for health workers, both clinical and support staff – throughout th ...
In 2017 RHAP began working in the Nyandeni sub-district, one of 4 sub-districts in the OR Tambo Health District in the Eastern Cape Province. Staff from Canzibe Di ...
In broken healthcare systems, whistleblowing becomes an integral part of reporting on failures to deliver to the needs of the sick and vulnerable. Marije Versteeg-Mojanag ...
With elections looming in 2019, the MTBPS was always going to be a case of “flattering to deceive” with no concrete commitment to addressing the crisis in health, report ...
by Russell Rensburg, Rural Health Advocacy Project As we move towards the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) with yet another Finance Minister, it is difficult n ...
The Rural Health Advocacy Project’s Samantha Khan-Gillmore makes a impassioned plea for the Office of Health Standards Compliance to be capacitated to do more. In the ear ...
