Interactive Data Dashboards
Live indicators, province breakdowns and downloadable data.
We have prepared a special print edition of Spotlight to coincide with the Treatment Action Campaign’s 6th National Congress taking place from 23 to 25 August 2017. Amongst others it contains updates from all seven TAC provinces and articles on treatment adherence and the future of ART
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New studies show the complexity and importance of HIV epidemiological modelling. In Isaac Asimov’s Foundation science fiction series, which is set far in the future, mathematical modelling of human society has reached such a sophisticated level that the characters can predict the fall and rise of their civilisation thousands of years ahead. The series’ main…
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Mpumalanga is one of the provinces where South Africa’s plan to fight HIV and TB has been most poorly implemented. Now, after years of dysfunctional provincial and district AIDS councils, there may just be some light at the end of the tunnel. Mpumalanga’s Provincial AIDS Council (PAC) was launched in November 2009, almost three years…
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When provinces fail to deliver on their constitutional obligations, the national government may intervene. The basic rules for such interventions are described in Section 100 of the South African constitution. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa allocates powers to three areas of government: national, provincial and local. Generally one area may not usurp…
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[box] 168 clinics and 17 hospitals lack piped water 42 health facilities have no proper electricity and operate via generators 68% of hospitals lack essential medical equipment 16% of facilities have no telephones and are accessible by road only in good weather Overall staff vacancy rates stand at 46% (mostly clinical posts) requiring an additional…
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Public health care in Gauteng Province is plagued by drug shortages, poor service delivery and the breakdown of the National Health Laboratory System (NHLS). For the past two years, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) in Gauteng has been receiving reports that not only essential drugs like antiretrovirals (ARVs) and insulin but even basics like paracetamol…
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Sorting out provincial budgets is not as hard as we are led to believe Over the past three years the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has trained many of its members to analyse budgets and monitor expenditure at the primary health care level. With assistance from the Centre for Economic Governance and Aids in Africa (CEGAA),…
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[box] Underspending on Hospital Revitalisation Grants Eastern Cape by R191 million (52% underspent) KwaZulu-Natal by R228 million (full budget figure missing) Free State by R134 million (35% underspent) Limpopo by R89 million (27% underspent) Northern Cape by R158 million (37% underspent) Eastern Cape underspent its HIV/AIDS grant by R105 million and its forensic pathology budget…
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[box] Underspending on Hospital Revitalisation Grants Eastern Cape by R191 million (52% underspent) KwaZulu-Natal by R228 million (full budget figure missing) Free State by R134 million (35% underspent) Limpopo by R89 million (27% underspent) Northern Cape by R158 million (37% underspent) Eastern Cape underspent its HIV/AIDS grant by R105 million and its forensic pathology budget…
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Crumbling Provincial Health Departments Cost Lives and Will Affect NSP Outcomes Over the last year reports to TAC and SECTION27 of drug shortages, vital medical equipment breakdowns, staff shortages, corruption and mismanagement have become almost a daily occurrence. Often these breakdowns bring tragic consequences, such as the preventable deaths of women and infants kept waiting…
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