Concerns with the delay in Free State MEC case
Today the Treatment Action Campaign wrote to the National Prosecuting Authority and the Free State Prosecuting Authority over concerns with the delay in prosecution of Free State MEC Malakoane. On…
VIDEO: #FireBenny
The Treatment Action Campaign and partners recently held a meeting to establish the Free State People’s Health Coalition. More than 500 TAC members also took to the streets and delivered memorandums to the police and National Prosecuting Authority demanding an update on the charges against Health MEC Dr Benny Malakoane. This is a short clip of the action in Bloemfontein.
The Circus is Coming to Town: End the Rhetoric, Start the Revolution
In two months the international AIDS jamboree will arrive in Durban for a four-day conference on the state of the global AIDS epidemic.
RESOURCE: Health Budget Speech
Budget speech by Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi delivered on 10 May 2016. Download here.
#Justice4Miners
#Silcosis judgment is delivered.
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
