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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 ...
Are South African health workers being silenced into malpractice?
By Karessa Govender, Published in The Daily Maverick, 17 November 2017 https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2017-11-17-are-south-african-health-workers-being-silenced-into-malpractice/#.Wg6MYROCxE4 “There is really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” The word ...
Life Esidimeni MD – ‘Doctors Failed to Speak Out’
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/life-esidimeni-md-doctors-failed-to-speak-out-20171018 As the hurt, loss and suffering of #Esidimeni is now open for all to hear and see, we need a serious conversation as a country about healthcare worker rights and duties to speak out. Some did speak out, internally, and were ignored or silenced, others ...
“It makes it easier for us to voice out in good faith by report without fear of prejudice”
The Voice Project makes a difference to healthcare workers by imparting advocacy skills for a just health system that meets patients needs. This week we are in the North West Province. Feedback by one of the participants: “Strong teams are made this way. I feel confidant now that there is a program that unites in having a mutual understan ...
Advocacy in the Curriculum
RHAP is making inroads into various universities with our ‘Advocacy in the Curriculum’ Programme. Download our manual Integrating Advocacy into the Curriculum Manual January 2017 and get in touch for more information! Email: Samantha@rhap.org.za UKZN Presentation on Decolonising the Curriculum: UKZN Decolonisation presentation SMU P ...
RHAP Student Advocacy Training at Stellenbosch Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences
“This was really insightful & interesting. Perfect time and stuff we haven’t learnt before. Very necessary!!!” “A very eye opening session that made me realise how we as students shouldn’t think we can’t do anything” (Students feedback). “Very motivating and empowering. Thank you!” From ...
Calling for South African Psychologists to Engage. Associate. Liberate
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 ...
Resuscitating an ethical climate in the health system: The role of healthcare workers
By Dr Prinitha Pillay. Abstract: South Africa boasts a proud tradition of healthcare professionals speaking out against injustice in line with the medical doctrine of beneficence (to do good) and maleficence (do no harm). There are many who play a part in making the health system better, including the state, managers, patients and healthcare wo ...
The Voice Project
“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 ...
The Voice Project – Health Care Provider Poster
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 ...