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 milesto ...
What is your take on the NHI Bill? The NHI Bill is an attempt to address the inequalities in accessing healthcare across South Africa.The release of the NHI Bill for publ ...
BACKGROUND: The Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP) has worked with the Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Health Management Team over the past three years in providing rural pr ...
The time is 11:37 on a cool Thursday morning in a rural town in South Africa. It is winter and a couple walk through the wooden doors of a dental clinic that attends to a ...
A presentation to the People’s Health Movement (PHM) Public Meeting on 9 June 2018 By Karessa Govender: Projects Officer, Rural Health Advocacy Project Introducti ...
Activists say that at least one patient has been trying to get treatment since 2013. Only one radiation oncologist is left to treat cancer patients in North West, a healt ...
Patients have died as a result of the recent strike in North West. Doctors and nurses were also chased out of operating theatres and wards by strikers. How can patients a ...
RHAP has written a letter to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) requesting an urgent investigation into the health impact of the protest and industrial act ...
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 insi ...
Read more from RHAP intern, Natasha Salant on why the NHI may lead to better health budgets: Rands and Sense: Why the NHI may lead to better health budgets About 200m fro ...
RHAP Statement on North West Health Emergency ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE IN NORTH WEST PROVINCE REMAINS UNDER SIEGE DESPITE APPOINTMENT OF NATIONAL TASK Demands by 70 North W ...
Letter of concern: Ongoing Health Crisis in the North-West Province Background: Currently there is a crisis in the provision of health care in the North-West Province. Th ...
The political action and healthcare workers strike in North West is widening beyond Mafikeng, with clinics and hospitals closing across Districts. Patients lives are unde ...
Negotiations for an #MSLA stalled in 2011. Here is the legal opinion and discussion document that was then developed for RHAP and RuDASA as clients of SECTION27. These ne ...
In June 2011, a joint press statement with several civil society organisations was released about the need to finalise the minimum service level agreement (MSLA). We rema ...
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’ Uni ...
Implementation of this policy framework and strategy will ensure that community health workers within the WBPHCOTs, supported by different categories of health profession ...
The Public Health Oral Forum is a critical think tank, advocacy and discussion platform that has been established by oral health care workers working for the South Africa ...
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 ...
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 Pro ...