7:How much will the CHW programme cost?
The cost of a CHW programme depends on the employment status of the CHWs, their salaries and benefits, management costs, training costs, logistics, equipment, consumables and infrastructural support. Very few…
6: How should CHWs be employed?
Issues around the employment of CHWs are some of the most highly contested in discussions of CHWs in South Africa. For years, CHWs have been calling for employment by the…
5: How many CHWs do we need?
The ideal number of CHWs depends on a number of factors, including the population served (decisions to be taken in this regard will include whether rural and/or urban households are…
4: What should CHWs do?
There has been a long-standing debate about how many and what kind of functions a CHW can perform.[1] It is important to consider the effectiveness of CHWs in performing certain…
3: History of CHWs in South Africa
Community health workers have been present in South Africa since the first CHW programmes were initiated in the 1920s. The 1997 White Paper on the Transformation of the Health Sector…
2: Why do we need CHWs?
The central goal of the new NSP is prevention. In focusing on prevention, it supports the new ‘test- [caption id="attachment_5156" align="alignright" width="300"] Doris Ntuli (center) stands alongside two of her…
VIDEO: TB Aware: Lungi Langa
Health journalist Lungi Langa shares her journey of being diagnosed with TB, surviving the horrid treatment and then having to deal with her daughter also being diagnosed with TB.
Credit: Thom Pierce
HIV & the law
Is South Africa implementing the recommendations of a major United Nations report? “The law alone cannot stop AIDS. Nor can the law alone be blamed when the HIV responses are…
Human rights & access to justice in the NSP
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa says that everyone has the right of access to health care services. This includes access to life-saving medicines and related services such…
The NSP needs a good M&E system: will it get one?
[caption id="attachment_446" align="alignnone" width="567"] World AIDS Day (2010) in Driefontein in the North West Province. With well over 5,000 people in attendance, community members were able to apply for identity…