Today marks the next step in the partnership with UKZN and RHAP on the integration of Advocacy in the Curriculum. UKZN actively supported and promoted the development of RHAP’s Advocacy in the Curriculum Manual in 2015/16. As we are rolling-out the manual across Health Sciences Faculties in South Africa, UKZN is once again pioneering this ...
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Mar 8, 2018
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Download RHAP’s review here: NHI From Green to White Paper_ Review_RHAP_July2017 Since the publication of the NHI Green Paper in 2011, the Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP) and its rural health partners have engaged extensively with the NHI policy development and review process. This engagement has included providing comment on various ...
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Mar 5, 2018
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Rural communities left at the wayside in community service allocations Discrimination towards rural communities in health service delivery persists. This is one of the key findings from the Annual CSO Allocation Update ‘ACUTE’, a report released by the Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP). The goal of the report is to monitor and critically eva ...
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Feb 26, 2018
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With this publication the RHAP launches the Annual Community Service Officer Update ‘ACUTE’ on the allocation of community service officers in South Africa. The purpose is to monitor whether the country is making progress with regards to meeting the intended purpose of community service which is to address the maldistribution of human resources ...
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Feb 23, 2018
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By Russell Rensburg, RHAP Programme Manager: Health Systems and Policy In his inaugural state of the nation address, President Ramaphosa outlined a broad set of initiatives that focussed primarily on addressing the lapses in trust between the government and the people. The focus was on improving the credibility of the state and more specificall ...
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Feb 20, 2018
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RHAP was one of the stakeholders invited to present to this committee on 25 October 2017. Russell Rensburg, RHAP’s Health System and Policy Manager represented RHAP at this meeting. The Minister of Finance tabled the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) on 25 October 2017 as required by section 6 (1) of the Money Bills Amendment Pr ...
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Feb 15, 2018
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SASOP-RHAP STATEMENT ON MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY TRAINING 2018 The Life Esidimeni tragedy continued to dominate the news throughout 2017. The testimonies of several witnesses in the arbitration hearings, chaired by retired deputy chief-justice Dikgang Moseneke, established how the Gauteng Department of Health continued to dismiss all warnings, de ...
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Feb 9, 2018
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By Marije Versteeg-Mojanaga, Rural Health Advocacy Project, published in issue 4 of Spotlight. The stories of health care users experiences with the health system as published by Spotlight are devastating. Various factors play a role when patients’ rights are violated, such as poor planning, inadequate HR management, budget cuts, healthcare wor ...
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Dec 15, 2017
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The National Department released the internship and community service placement guidelines for 2017/18. Find your copy here: INTERNSHIP-AND-COMMUNITY-SERVICEPLACEMENT-GUIDELINES-FOR-2017-2018-VERSION (2) ...
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Dec 12, 2017
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This study was conducted by the MRC and RHAP to compare the resource implications (both financial and human resources) of the CHW components of WBOT between rural and urban communities. The study focuses on different community-based service models implemented in two provinces to highlight potential differences between urban and rural sub-distri ...
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Nov 9, 2017
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