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 will prevail in the short and medium term, but the situation presents an ideal opportunity for the country to reorganise its skewed healthcare provision to make it more equitab ...
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Apr 10, 2019
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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. Introduction South Africa has made great strides since the end of apartheid in 1994 in improving overall population health and well-being, reflected in increased life expectan ...
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Jan 8, 2019
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Statement on the SAHRC and NMF Dialogue On 5 July 2018, the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), together with the Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) convened a national dialogue resulting in the Braamfontein Statement, on the impact of the protest and industrial action on the right to access health services in South Africa. This dialogu ...
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Jul 13, 2018
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The NHI Bill is an attempt to address the inequalities in accessing healthcare across South Africa.The release of the NHI Bill for public comment is a significant milestone in the transformation of the South African health sector. If framed and implemented equitably and accessibly, the NHI could well be South Africa’s answer to the achievement ...
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Jun 25, 2018
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Join our Voice Team at the Africa Health Conference on 29 May 2018 at Gallagher Convention Centre in Johannesburg. Objectives of Voice workshops: • Participants have insight into legal and policy foundations of the right to health • You can learn more about Advocacy approaches and the different roles played by health care workers • Health ...
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May 10, 2018
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At the centre of the crisis is the relationship breakdown between the province’s political leadership and members of the National Education Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu), whose go-slow at the provincial medicines depot has stopped drugs leaving or entering the facility. Nehawu says the protest action will continue until their demand ...
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Apr 19, 2018
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Implementation of this policy framework and strategy will ensure that community health workers within the WBPHCOTs, supported by different categories of health professionals, form the bridge between communities and healthcare service provision within health facilities. WBPHCOTs will bring healthcare closer to communities, families and individua ...
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Apr 9, 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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