Nomatter Ndebele chats to Lotti Rutter of HealthGAP about what the People’s COP is and why it matters.
State capture and corruption casts a long shadow over all spheres of the public service, including healthcare. For our World AIDS Day edition of Spotlight Mark Heywood takes on this difficult topic. We’re publishing this important article online today ahead of its publication in print.
Dr Sandile Buthelezi was recently appointed as the new head (CEO) of the South African National AIDS Council. His appointment follows the suspicious non-renewal of the previous CEO’s contract Dr Fareed Abdullah and unsuccessful attempts to lure Eastern Cape head of health Dr Thobile Mbengashe to the post.
Delays at the South African National AIDS Council has meant that the new NSP will now only be ready in March 2017.
Antiretroviral therapy in South Africa seems set for a revolution with a new drug combination that is highly effective and involves only one pill a day that is smaller than an aspirin. Dr Michelle Moorhouse, one of South Africa’s top HIV clinicians explains.
Public service has become synonymous with blind loyalty to the political head and those who are the most loyal bureaucrats become the most powerful as intellectual honesty and competence fly out the window, writes Fareed Abdullah.
On Friday 31 March 2017 South Africa’s National Strategic Plan (NSP) for HIV, TB an STIs 2017 – 2022 was launched in Mangaung, Free State. However, as of noon on Monday 3 April the final plan has not yet been made public.
As we move towards the release of South Africa’s latest National Strategic Plan for HIV/AIDS, TB and STI’s it is important to celebrate the successes achieved since the end of AIDS denialism and the introduction of a revitalised AIDS response in 2006, writes Russell Rensburg.
South Africa’s new National Strategic Plan on HIV, TB and STIs presents a unique opportunity to start correcting the rudderless management of community health workers in the South African public healthcare system, writes Sasha Stevenson.
It was business as usual at the International Aids conference in Durban in July 2016. The South African Minister of Health was about to address a plenary session when two young girls took to the stage.
A key ingredient to ensuring our response to the AIDS and TB epidemics is effective, is having a workable plan. To that end, consultants and experts are working furiously to make sure South Africa has a new National Strategic Plan to take us through to 2022.
