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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 […]

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RURAL HEALTH CHAMPIONS

Ordinary people in rural areas do extraordinary things

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Stop Stockouts introduces online report facility for whistleblowers

The Stop Stockouts Project (SSP) is campaigning for medical staff to report stockouts and has a webpage on their site where this can be done – http://stockouts.org/Report. Stockouts are becoming more…

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New plan to overhaul South Africa’s massively skewed healthcare system

South Africa's health care needs to be reformed so that everyone has access regardless of affordability or location.

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Budget doesn’t address SA’s crumbling health system — activists

The budget tabled in Parliament last week, does not address a crumbling health system, some civic organisations have warned. Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba announced a R205bn budget for health in…

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Fact Sheet: Rural Health 2015

Compiled by the Rural Health Advocacy Project, the third annual fact sheet presents and update on the status of rural health in South Africa

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Report: Rural Health Fact Sheet

The Rural Health Advocacy Project report charts facts, sources and commentary on rural health in South African provinces. 

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A Tale of Rural Health

The failing healthcare system in the Eastern Cape affects everyone: urban communities, migrants from Gauteng and Cape Town too sick to work anymore or returning home to retire, and healthcare…

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