Community Healthcare

Three key components of the NHI Bill that need to change

Article Sasha Stevenson - 27 Nov 2019

Have a say in the future health system of South Africa

Community healthcare workers are the link

Article Leigh Wils - 27 Sep 2019

They often identify additional problems, such as people needing food, IDs and housing

Using the COPC Toolkit to plan integrated healthcare delivery

Article Advertorial Supplement - 27 Sep 2019

The toolkit integrates data to better predict and respond to health needs in an area

The workforce that makes our health system work

Article Ofentse Mboweni - 10 Apr 2019

Community health workers need to be supported so that policies can be tangibly effective

Research to improve rural community health

Article bogdan TagDiv - 29 Jun 2018

Management Award: contribution through management and related SET and innovation activities by an individual

Progress in health, human settlements and education

Article bogdan TagDiv - 9 Mar 2018

Masuelle highlighted improvements in delivery of services for education

Too poor to care? The call for a minimum wage has exposed a sick system

Article Staff Reporter - 24 Nov 2016

Care workers may be the backbone of community health care but they sure aren’t paid like it

The ups and downs of community healthcare

Article bogdan TagDiv - 18 Oct 2016

Often medical help comes too late for people in rural areas but community health workers could change this

Bikers go full throttle to speed up TB cure in Zimbabwe

Article Stephen Tsoroti - 4 Apr 2016

A programme with the health department sees motorbikes being used to deliver drugs to people in far-flung places who can't afford the fare.

Fishing and family planning – how the two are linked

Article Staff Reporter - 14 Mar 2016

Sometimes, delivering mixed messages is a good thing, as an integrated project in the Lake Tanganyika region has proved.

Free State breaks the backbone of basic care for the destitute

Article bogdan TagDiv - 5 Nov 2015

The Mma Mokoenas of community health still dispense help despite having been dismissed.

Community healthworkers shafted by SA’s policy shambles

Article Mia Malan - 11 Sep 2014

The community healthworker system is in chaos, leaving vulnerable communities at risk.

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