Edition 13: Eastern Cape Health

Edition 13: Eastern Cape Health

Interactive Data Dashboards

Track the HIV & TB response

Live indicators, province breakdowns and downloadable data.

  • Village Clinic: Access delayed is access denied

    On the first day of September 2015, two trucks clear a large plot of land to lay the foundation of the new Village Clinic. This should be a moment for celebration but Nonyameko Ntiyo is exasperated; construction of the clinic is long overdue. Nonyameko is one of the patients of Lusikisiki Village Clinic who participated…

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  • Holy Cross: Some progress, but all is not well

    NSP Review COMMENT: The Treatment Action Campaign has for years drawn attention to the poor state of health services in the Eastern Cape. Two years ago the NSP Review published a special investigative report titled Death and Dying which highlighted the challenges and state of collapse. The national health minister responded immediately also requesting that…

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  • Who will fight the good fight?

    On September 27 the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) Western Cape marched to the provincial Department of Health to raise concerns about the quality of care provided to pregnant women at maternity and obstetrics units. The march was the culmination of the kind of grassroots activism many talk about, but few actually do. Not knowing where…

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