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Championing Rural Oral Health: Bulela Vava’s unwavering commitment to oral healthcare in rural communities

For many rural residents, dental care is a distant luxury, with clinics often far away, over rough roads with limited transport. But health professionals like […]

RURAL HEALTH CHAMPIONS

Ordinary people in rural areas do extraordinary things

Healthcare in South Africa: how inequity is contributing to inefficiency

The National Health Insurance Scheme was introduced by the South African government to balance the scales in the highly unequal healthcare system. But there are many unanswered questions.

Navigating abortion barriers in rural areas

Onke Jezile, founder of Lethabo la Azania, a non-profit organisation that works with children and the youth in Engcobo in the Eastern Cape, says for pregnant women in rural areas…

This advocacy group is helping ensure no one in South Africa is left behind in COVID-19 response

Global Citizen spoke with Russell Rensburg, director of the Rural Health Advocacy Project.

Nurses stand outside the department of health to air their frustration over performing duties meant for professional nurses while being paid community service salaries. / KABELO MOKOENA

Reflections on the future of nursing in South Africa

On June 17 the Rural Health Advocacy Project hosted a webinar themed “The Future of Nursing in South Africa: Challenges, Opportunities and Social Accountability in Nursing Education”. Professor Laetitia Rispel,…

High prevalence of ARV and TB stockouts — SA survey

One in five public health facilities in South Africa were unable to supply at least one antiretroviral (ARV) or tuberculosis (TB) drug on the day they were contacted by researchers

Austerity is hurting rural health, says report

“Redirecting money from private to public spending is an obvious area to look at as part of urgent reform”