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Rural Health

How this Limpopo NGO prepared for Trump’s funding cuts
Health
/ 29 April 2025

How this Limpopo NGO prepared for Trump’s funding cuts

The Anova Health Institute, which received the lion’s share of the US President’s Emergency Plan for Aids funding in South Africa, had its support halted in February along with dozens other nonprofits

By Zano Kunene
Risky behaviour and coercion are driving the teen pregnancy crisis in rural South Africa
National
/ 14 July 2024

Risky behaviour and coercion are driving the teen pregnancy crisis in rural South Africa

According to the 2022-23 District Health Barometer, there has been a 6.1% increase in the number of deliveries by girls and women aged 10 to 19, over the past five years

By Aarti Bhana
Easier access to antiretrovirals helps people in rural areas
Health
/ 15 June 2023

Easier access to antiretrovirals helps people in rural areas

The Bulungula Incubator in the Eastern Cape has set up a medicine pick up point close to people’s homes, assisting them in sticking to their treatment

By Sigrid Kite-Banks
Radical transformation begins with fixing how we fund healthcare in remote areas
Article
/ 2 March 2017

Radical transformation begins with fixing how we fund healthcare in remote areas

Once slices of the healthcare funding pie are dished out to provinces, there is little control over how this money is spent to benefit the rural poor.

By Marije Versteeg-Mojanaga and Russell Rensburg
New graduates, rural areas likely to pay the price for austerity measures
Article
/ 16 January 2017

New graduates, rural areas likely to pay the price for austerity measures

Some pharmacists will be doing their community service at private pharmacies amid a shortage of posts.

By Joan Van Dyk
‘If it wasn’t for them I would have died:’ How community health workers save lives
Article
/ 14 December 2016

‘If it wasn’t for them I would have died:’ How community health workers save lives

Ethiopia’s rural health extension workers have helped halve the country’s child death rate.

By Ina Skosana
Fed-up NHI doctors say they are nothing more than glorified nurses
Article
/ 14 November 2016

Fed-up NHI doctors say they are nothing more than glorified nurses

GPs working in the National Health Insurance’s biggest pilot site say they won’t stay because of drug stock-outs, staff shortages and long queues

By Mia Malan
Hundreds of medical graduates may be unemployed amid budget cuts
Article
/ 10 November 2016

Hundreds of medical graduates may be unemployed amid budget cuts

More than 200 newly qualified doctors may be left with worthless degrees if provinces can’t raise funds for internship positions

By Staff Reporter
The ups and downs of community healthcare
Article
/ 18 October 2016

The ups and downs of community healthcare

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

By Staff Reporter
Pedal power: Malawi’s ‘rickshaw’ bush ambulances cycle the sick to care
Article
/ 26 August 2016

Pedal power: Malawi’s ‘rickshaw’ bush ambulances cycle the sick to care

Already used in countries like Namibia, the ambulances could help cut child and maternal mortality rates.

By Ina Skosana
‘My body is a battleground’: How rural trans people struggle to live out their rights
Article
/ 22 July 2016

‘My body is a battleground’: How rural trans people struggle to live out their rights

The Mail & Guardian travelled to the North West and Eastern Cape to find out more about the hidden lives of trans people on the frontline.

By Mosibudi Ratlebjane
In rural Kenya, camel clinics bring much needed care to those who need it
Article
/ 10 July 2016

In rural Kenya, camel clinics bring much needed care to those who need it

Healthcare for Kenya’s semi-nomadic communities comes in an unlikely form of camels, who carry medicine to the country’s most remote villages.

By Lionel Faull
Mothers and babies at risk in Apostolic church ‘birth camps’
Article
/ 29 February 2016

Mothers and babies at risk in Apostolic church ‘birth camps’

Leaders of Zimbabwe’s Apostolic sects are warming to the idea of women giving birth at health clinics.

By Staff Reporter
Care is cast aside beyond the city limits
Article
/ 7 November 2014

Care is cast aside beyond the city limits

Primary healthcare barely exists outside our urban centres, and apartheid-ordained inequality is stark.

By Bhekisisa Team
Comment: Too much stick, not enough carrot
Article
/ 24 July 2014

Comment: Too much stick, not enough carrot

The state’s proposed certificate of need will not address inequities in rural healthcare.

By Staff Reporter
Comment: Share in the politics of poor health
Article
/ 24 July 2014

Comment: Share in the politics of poor health

To improve the lives of millions, the Global South must drive pro-poor policies on the world stage.

By Erica Penfold
SA needs rural doctors
Article
/ 8 April 2014

SA needs rural doctors

Although working conditions are tough in rural areas, doctors need to go where they are most needed, says a medical student.

By Bhekisisa Team
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Article
/ 22 November 2013

The boy who lifts Hobeni’s spirits

Sihle Batiya’s luckier than most – but the odds are stacked against kids with Down’s syndrome in the Eastern Cape.

By Mia Malan
No image available
Article
/ 8 November 2013

A mother to 30; a nurse to thousands

Undaunted by apartheid and Aids, she has made all the difference to those otherwise abandoned.

By Amy Green
Comment: Free healthcare is a human right
Article
/ 17 May 2013

Comment: Free healthcare is a human right

Healthcare that is accessible to all is the foundation on which an equitable and efficient system must be built.

By Staff Reporter
Comment: Take care over the next hill
Article
/ 19 April 2013

Comment: Take care over the next hill

What, if anything, does the private healthcare sector have to offer the rural poor?

By Staff Reporter
[From our archives] ‘God make us strong, I beg you, keep Luphumlo alive’
Article
/ 11 November 2011

[From our archives] ‘God make us strong, I beg you, keep Luphumlo alive’

Mia Malan describes the arduous trek an Eastern Cape woman had to undertake to get medical attention for her sick grandson.

By Mia Malan
No image available
Article
/ 6 June 2008

Unsung heroes

South Africa’s rural doctors have been thrust into the spotlight by the cases of Colin Pfaff, who sourced funding for antiretroviral drugs for pregnant women when the politicians failed to do so.

By Belinda Beresford

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