Community Healthcare

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

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

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

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Masuelle highlighted improvements in delivery of services for education

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Community workers are twiddling their thumbs while the state drags its heels on a new strategy, writes Mia Malan.

In this 2014 interview, former Free State health MEC Benny Malakoane says that detractors are still alive is proof of the good work under his watch.

The pressure group has accused the Free State’s health MEC of being behind the intimidation.