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Tag: THE FREE STATE HEALTH CRISIS

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Heading For The Rocks?

Posted in: Free State, Latest, Spotlight Edition 4

One year into his tenure as MEC for Health in the Free State, Butana Khompela is still to exorcise the ghosts that have made the province one of the worst-performing when it comes to health.

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Heading For The Rocks?

Health in the Free state

Posted in: Free State, Latest, Provinces, Spotlight, Spotlight Edition 1

A province that is in the news for all the wrong reasons. Spotlight keeps the focus on this beleaguered province and the right to health care as provided by the State. Some good news, some bad news and some downright ugly news. The spotlight has to remain on this province.

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A timeline of collapse

Posted in: Free State, Latest, Provinces, Spotlight, Spotlight Edition 1

To understand what led to the crises in the Free State it is helpful to backtrack to 2005 when the provincial scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) programmes across South Africa’s nine provinces began in earnest.

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Government policy to address Community Health Worker issue

Posted in: Edition 12: SA’s AIDS & TB response
Government policy to address Community Health Worker issue

Government policy to address Community Health Worker issue

Posted in: Edition 12: SA’s AIDS & TB response
Government policy to address Community Health Worker issue

Free State: No end to the suffering and desperation

Posted in: Edition 12: SA’s AIDS & TB response
Free State: No end to the suffering and desperation

Community health worker testimonials

Posted in: Edition 11: National Health Laboratory Service
Community health worker testimonials

Standing up for her rights

Posted in: Edition 11: National Health Laboratory Service
Standing up for her rights

Broken promises

Posted in: Edition 11: National Health Laboratory Service
Broken promises

This sh*thole is our home

Posted in: Edition 11: National Health Laboratory Service

Things fall apart

Posted in: Edition 11: National Health Laboratory Service

The long wait for healing

Posted in: Edition 11: National Health Laboratory Service
The long wait for healing
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