The Rural Health Advocacy Project welcomes the news that the Eastern Cape Department of Health is recruiting four doctors to work at the 120-bed Canzibe District Hospital in OR Tambo District, in the Eastern Cape. Three of the four doctors are expected to start by 1 July. This comes after months of advocacy by various parties and through variou ...
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This report shows both the gravity and the complexity of the HRH crisis for rural communities in South Africa. While many of the challenges described affect health services at all levels and in urban and peri-urban areas as well, it is clear that rural South Africans are uniquely vulnerable to the effects of staffing cuts, and disproportionatel ...
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In this WHO publication, Prof Wong argues that the real challenge in achieving Universal Health Coverage is the delivery of services to those who are hardest to reach. “Without a focus on reach, resources will be wasted and the number of preventable and treatable illnesses will remain high.” Unpacking the example of Brazil’s ...
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Jul 19, 2016
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The National Health Assembly, held at the University of the Western Cape from 24 – 26 June brought together organisations and individuals from all provinces in South Africa and beyond. The NHA participants identified the following issues around health and health care provision in South Africa: the need for community participation including heal ...
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On 21 May the RHAP together with RuDASA hosted a rural health imbizo in one of the most rural districts in the country, Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati (Dr RSM) District in North West Province. Over 100 community members from around 14 villages attended the Imbizo, some represented NGO’s operating in the area, others represented community health work ...
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May 26, 2016
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In this article, psychologist Garret Barnwell calls upon South African psychologists to become more engaged in advocating for social justice and to respond to the challenges faced by the majority of people living in South Africa. “We, as psychologists, can either choose to be complicit in the maintenance of structural disparities or contr ...
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The Big Chill: Health post freeze threatens services by Laura Lopez Gonzalez on February 1, 2016 in Health Funding, Health Management, News Facing a R9-billion shortfall just to meet salary demands, provincial health departments are freezing posts. Whether couched openly in memos or hidden between the lines of spiralling bureaucracy, staff fre ...
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The NHI White Paper has finally been released! RHAP will study this critical initiative towards greater equity thoroughly and prepare for our submission. RHAP is in full support of the purpose of the NHI, namely to “to ensure that affordable and equitable medical care is available to everyone in South Africa and not just to citizens who c ...
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“People are dying in the Eastern Cape. They can’t reach hospitals in emergency situations. There aren’t enough ambulances to assist them.” Dying In Our Homes reveals the impact that the lack of ambulances is having on the lives of rural families. Daygan Eagar speaks about the catastrophic out of pocket expenditures vulne ...
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Read the grim findings of the South African Human Rights Commission’s Hearing into access to emergency medical services in the Eastern Cape. RHAP’s Prinitha Pillay served the committee as external panelist. National inquiry to be launched into emergency medical services by Laura Lopez Gonzalez on October 2, 2015 in Emergency Medica ...
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