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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While the Department of Health has started work on a new plan for HRH, what we have achieved in the past 5 years? Sadly, the picture is bleak and progress is hampered by a combination of factors: ranging from lack of NDoH prioritisation and capacity; National Health Council resolutions on rural health education and task teams that are not follo ...
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Mar 2, 2017
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Rhap released its first Rural Mental Health Factsheet. Download it here. ...
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Jul 27, 2015
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“There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” Arundhati Roy, Author and human rights activist Summary The Voice Project aims to improve access to quality rural health care by increasing the number and quality of healthcare provider change agents. As part of this initiativ ...
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Dec 11, 2014
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There is rural context that is applicable to many of the steps in the Workload Indicator of Staffing Needs (WISN) process, the method used by the Department of Health to indicate the staffing needs at health facilities across the country. This context needs to be incorporated, whether by modifying existing steps or creating additional steps for ...
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Nov 26, 2014
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The next step in RHAP’s The Voice Project is the piloting of workshops on the basis of our draft manual “A HEALTHCARE PROVIDER’S GUIDE TO REPORTING HEALTHCARE CHALLENGES: PRINCIPLES, TOOLS & STRATEGIES”. Download the The Voice Project – HCP Poster here. So far we provided workshops in KZN, EC, at the Rural Health Con ...
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The RHAP has developed a discussion document on the definition of rurality. Please send any comments to Daygan Eagar at Daygan@rhap.org.za. Summary and Recommendations: Section 27 of South Africa’s Constitution (1996) affords everyone who lives in the country the “right to have access to health care services, including reproductive health care” ...
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Click here to download a factsheet on rural health ...
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