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The Rural Health Advocacy Project is a leading health advocacy organisation based in Johannesburg, advocating for equitable access to quality health care for rural communities in the whole of South Africa. Informed by the voices of rural healthcare workers and communities on the ground, partner organisations, stakeholders and research, RHAP conducts advocacy, generates debate, monitors implementation of health policies in rural areas, supports pro-equity government interventions, and rural-proofs policies to ensure that they are in tune with rural realities. RHAP’s vision is a health system where rural communities access equitable, quality health care services.

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Roll Out of Vaccines To Rural Areas

RuDASA Press Statement 15 March 2021 RUDASA is concerned at the delay in developing a vaccine roll out plan to rural health services. Whilst understanding the logistical ...
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The World Health Assembly has declared 2020 as the international year of the nurse and midwife in order to highlight the vital roles that nurses and midwives play in the healthcare system and in transforming it. This year also marks the implementation of the new nursing curriculum in South Africa.

The World Health Assembly has declared 2020 as the international year of the nurse and midwife in order to highlight the vital roles that nurses and midwives play in the healthcare system and in transforming it. This year also marks the implementation of the new nursing curriculum in South Africa.

In light of this, RHAP hosted a nursing webinar in order to discuss the Future of Nursing in South Africa- exploring challenges, opportunities, and social accountability ...
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PRESS RELEASE: OXYGEN SUPPLIES VITAL FOR RURAL HOSPITALS COVID-19 RESPONSE

RuDASA Calls for Oxygen Therapy in District Hospitals Many patients with COVID-19 appear relatively alert and well until quite dangerously hypoxic (lacking in oxygen). Ox ...
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Nursing today in South Africa

Nursing today in South Africa

By Lungile Gamede – RHAP Graduate Intern According to the World Health Organisation, a well-functioning healthcare system is defined as one that  “responds in a bal ...
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RHAP Newsletter: COVID-19 AND RURAL HEALTH “Rural-proofing the Response”

Rural Health Update A word from our director, Russell Rensburg We are nearing the end of the third week in lockdown and RHAP has been hard at work from our various h ...
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Opinion piece: It is urgent to integrate SA’s private and public healthcare systems now

This opinion piece by Lydia Cairncross, Louis Reynolds, Russell Rensburg & Leslie London was published in the Daily Maverick on 22 April. As we approach the probable ...
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Private Sector Contracting Letter by S27, TAC, RHAP, MSF, PHM-SA, Cancer Alliance, SRJC, Triangle Project to Minister of Health Dr Mkhize

In this letter to Minister of Health Dr Mkhize, the above organisations identify core principles for agreements with hospital groups and private healthcare services provi ...
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Scientific Fact or Fake News in the era of the COVID pandemic

The COVID19 pandemic has brought about a paradigm shift in how we think about information. For the first time in recent history you can be arrested for creating or spread ...
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Influential coalition urges President Ramaphosa to increase child support grants

As a member of this coalition, RHAP cannot emphasize enough the urgency of this intervention. ” We, a group of concerned academics, civil society leaders and other ...
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Covid-19: COVID Readiness Checklist

A list of critical points at municipal district level, health district level, community awareness and facility readiness. ...
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COVID-19: PPE for HCWs

COVID-19: PPE for HCWs

Healthcare workers can report Personal Protective Equipment and essential medicines stock-outs to the SAHCS/SSP. Refer to the contact details in the image. ...
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Covid-19: Lockdown responses from farmworkers to sex workers to CSOs

https://city-press.news24.com/Voices/covid-19-lockdown-responses-from-farmworkers-to-sex-workers-to-csos-20200328 ” Rensburg told Spotlight that the social mitigati ...
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OP-ED Covid-19: We need both physical distancing and social solidarity

By Lydia Cairncross for Spotlight• 20 March 2020 Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in December 2019, the world has been bombarded with messages about how to curb the sp ...
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STATEMENT: BUDGET JUSTICE COALITION: ESCALATION OF MEASURES TO COMBAT COVID-19 EPIDEMIC PRIORITISES LIVES, BUT NOT LIVELIHOODS

https://budgetjusticesa.org/media/budget-justice-coalition-escalation-of-measures-to-combat-covid-19-epidemic-prioritises-lives-but-not-livelihoods/ The Budget Justice Co ...
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RuDASA Statement: COVID-19 in a Rural Setting

RuDASA Statement: COVID-19 in a Rural Setting

The Rural Doctors Association of South Africa has issued a statement through which it promotes four lessons for addressing COVID-19 in a rural South African Context: 4 le ...
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COVID 19

COVID 19

Visit the South African government’s Covid-19 portal at sacoronavirus.co.za for credible information and latest updates. ...
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RHAP Submission on NHI Bill

RHAP Submission on NHI Bill

The RHAP submitted its comment on the NHI Bill today. In our submission we argue that the NHI goals of equity and social justice in health and healthcare require distinct ...
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My reflections as a nurse on community participation and capacity building

My reflections as a nurse on community participation and capacity building

By Lungi Gamede – Graduate Intern RHAP As a qualified professional nurse who has worked in public primary healthcare in a rural setting, I have come to realize how ...
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A Gendered Analysis of the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement 2019 with a Focus on Rural Health. RHAP Submission on MTBPS 2019

A Gendered Analysis of the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement 2019 with a Focus on Rural Health. RHAP Submission on MTBPS 2019

Read RHAP’s full submission on the 2019 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement here. Executive Summary An investment in health is an investment in people. Health is no ...
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The Money Show’s Bruce Whitfield hosts a debate on NHI between Paul Theron (Vestact) and Russell Rensburg (Wits).

“We had a terrible nine years… we need to start charting a path to shared prosperity… access to health can do that…” by Russell Rensburg Listen to the full ra ...
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On this World Health Day, let us remember to strive for equitable access to healthcare for all our people!
Let us stand as a united South Africa and fight for each and everyone to have access to the healthcare that they deserve.
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#COVID19 highlighted how some 👱🙎🏽‍♀️ live healthier lives & have better access to health services than others, due to their living conditions.

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Let us keep our loved ones safe by:
- Wearing a mask
- Social distancing of 1,5 meters
- Washing our hands with soap and water
- Isolating for 10 to 15 days when sick
- Avoid touching your face, eyes, nose and mouth
- Eating healthily to strengthen our bodies

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RHAP’s Rurality Index

Click on the map and find out about your facility’s rurality score, informed by the deprivation index, average distance clinics to district hospital, distance to regional hospital and catchment population!
RHAP's Rurality Index

KEY RESOURCES

  • Press Statement: South Africa’s fiscal austerity potentially an opportunity to remedy neglected rural healthcare
  • North West Maquassi Hill Case Study: Rural Proofing and Healthcare Delivery in Times of Austerity
  • Press Release: RHAP Issues First Annual CSO Allocation Update ‘Acute’ 2018
  • NEW! Annual Community Service Officer Update ‘ACUTE’ – 2018 Report
  • Saving lives, saving costs. Investment Case for Community Health Workers In South Africa
  • Rural Health Resource Mapping Guide – Who Cares?
  • Cutting Human Resources for Health – Who Pays?
  • Advocacy for Health: An educators guide to incorporating advocacy into the health sciences curriculum
  • Rural Recruitment and Retention: Why are we not winning?
  • MTBPS 2016: The Rural Health Advocacy Project warns against further health service cuts to those most in need following continued fiscal consolidation
  • NHI White Paper Submission by Rural Partners Network: “THINK RURAL”!
  • Rural-Proofing Health Guidelines
  • Financing rural health: International best practice and options for the South African Context
  • RHAP Discussion Document: Defining rurality within the context of health policy, planning, resourcing and service delivery
  • The Role and Impact of Transport on Rural Communities Accessing the State Health Care System in South Africa
  • Key Priorities for Rural Health
  • Human Resources for Rural Health – South African Health Review 2011
  • Rural-Proofing Health Care for People with Disabilities
  • Rural-Proofing of Policy – An Overview of International Best Practices
  • HR4RH WHO Guidelines – The SA Context

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