It’s the ‘Donald disease’ that’s making us sick
With the 12 specialised key population clinics in South Africa funded by the US government, and now shuttered, getting treatment at government clinics has been difficult, if not impossible
community health workers
Childhood stunting is also stunting South Africa’s economy
More than a quarter of children under the age of five in the country are chronically malnourished
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
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
Eastern Cape headman: ‘You won’t find a child born with HIV in this village’
Babies getting HIV from their infected mothers is rare in a cluster of 39 villages in the OR Tambo district
Community health workers are ditching unions
In South Africa, trade unions have a reputation for having workers’ back. But for many of the country’s community health workers, these organisations are no longer an ally.
Why Covid likely won’t change the plight of community health workers
In the absence of action from the health department, South Africa’s community health workers are once again having to fight for their rights, with a nationwide strike planned from 9 November.
Editorial: How do they sleep at night?
Department of health officials know they haven’t paid many community health workers on the ground in Gauteng since June. Do they care?
Disquiet on precarious front line
Last week community health workers were described as ‘troops on the ground’. But these front-line workers say they don’t have resources to fight Covid-19 if it rages through townships
Gauteng uses tragedy to fix services
In addition to other measures, the province’s response the outbreak of the coronavirus will be to ‘sort out’ the public healthcare system
