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Young people understand social media dynamics, peer-to-peer communication and community mobilisation in ways that can be used improve health services. Photo: Bulungula Incubator
ASONWABISA SIPATANA

Rural areas need community health workers — and so does the NHI

‘Nnomakhayas’ understand a community’s values, practices and problems, as well as modern medicine, making them effective carers

  • Sigrid Kite-Banks
In South Africa, lack of adherence to HIV treatment remains a problem.
COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE WORKER

HIV responses succeed when we let communities lead

The Nomakhayas of Nqileni in the Eastern Cape give us a case study to replicate This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers. Get Your Free Account The Mail &…

  • Zeenat Abdool
1 min read
Early childhood development practitioners gathered on the Wild Coast to broaden their practice. Photos: Bulungula Incubator
AIDS

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

  • Sigrid Kite-Banks
8 min read
Bulungula Health point Nqileni Village.
BULUNGULA INCUBATOR

Lessons for the National Health Insurance from the Bulungula Incubator health point in the Eastern Cape

People’s lives changed when a nonprofit organisation and the provincial government teamed up to bring care closer to home

  • Sigrid Kite
12 min read
Young women struggling with unplanned pregnancies — often victims of sexual violence and toxic masculinity — need help. (Photo by Jonas Gratzer/LightRocket via Getty Images)
ABSTINENCE

It’s better to help rather than punish teen mothers

One in six South African teenagers aged 15 to 19 have had a child. Here’s how to help them stay in school

  • Aisha Abdool Karim
12 min read