Data collected by the Ritshidze community-led healthcare monitoring project is now being shared through a new, publicly accessible online dashboard. Authors involved with the project explain the kinds of insights this rich new data source can give on healthcare services in South Africa.
Over the past few years and on varied scales, we have seen provincial health systems in a state of collapse. We have seen challenges with infrastructure, staffing, drug stock outs,…
[caption id="attachment_2997" align="aligncenter" width="570"] Image: Oupa Nkosi[/caption] The 2012 National Strategic Plan for HIV, STIs, and TB laid an important foundation for improving HIV prevention and treatment for Men who…
Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) are at high risk of acquiring and transmitting HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) but have historically been neglected in South Africa’s…
In his Budget vote speech in July, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said that only 50 percent of people in the public sector antiretroviral programme had received a viral load test…
[caption id="attachment_2984" align="aligncenter" width="400"] ‘Our next step is to increase coverage in the manner proposed by the 90 percent approach. This means testing most, if not all, of the population…
[caption id="attachment_2979" align="alignleft" width="570"] ‘...although the THEMBISA model indicates declines for all age groups and both sexes, the HSRC estimates that incidence has increased among females aged 15-49 and 15-24.”[/caption]…
Community Health Workers (CHWs) play a key role in making the health system work, yet they face poor working conditions, small stipends, and long periods of no-pay and irregular working…
When 26-year-old student nurse Atalia Nkosi isn’t thinking about how fed up she is that nurses, and people in the Free State in general, have to put up with empty…
[caption id="attachment_2947" align="alignleft" width="570"] No one’s bothered to do repairs or maintenance at the nurses’ accommodation.[/caption] Dineo’s* fingers are stained red from the colourant-drenched corn chips she’s just finished eating.…
Bird poop and feathers make a mess on the floor of the community hall in Zone 2 in Thaba Nchu. No one bothers to clean it up because the pigeons…
Poverty, lack of opportunity and a legacy of disempowerment and oppression make up the evil eye at the centre of a dangerous storm brewing over the most vulnerable people in…
