I remember how hard Angel Ntentesa and I pitched for this. Finally the people of my home province stand to be on the receiving end of dignified oral healthcare! When they ask me why I do this, this is why! RHAP Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity SA Atlantic Fellows Thank you Spotlight for sharing!

GOOD NEWS | The Eastern Cape is getting its first Maxillofacial and Dental Lab. Dr Bulela Vava of the Public Oral Health Forum welcomes the development and argues that oral health should not be a privilege of the few. | Bulela Vava

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Flu Rates Anticipated to Return to Pre-Covid-19 Levels Spotlight: allafrica.com/stories/202404… #SouthAfrica

SA’s flu rates anticipated to return to pre-COVID-19 levels

COVID-19-related factors resulted in several years of lower-than-normal rates of the flu, but experts say that is now something of the past. | E.V.

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We have a new publication: Satisfaction with service delivery among HIV treatment clients enrolled in differentiated and conventional models of care in South Africa: a baseline survey

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SA’s flu rates anticipated to return to pre-COVID-19 levels

COVID-19-related factors resulted in several years of lower-than-normal rates of the flu, but experts say that is now something of the past. | E.V.

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In this hard-hitting open letter, SECTION27, Cancer Alliance and TAC activists call out the Gauteng Department of Health for failing cancer patients. | Spotlight

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Dr Shaheem de Vries thought about dropping out of medical school multiple times but his wife discouraged him. Today he is at the helm of Groote Schuur Hospital. | Spotlight
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Dr Alex de Voux was also featured in this Spotlight article in which she told us about meeting our late president Nelson Mandela: spotlightnsp.co.za/2024/04/11/the…

Salome Meyer Spotlight Nomantu Nkomo Ralehoko Cancer Alliance ZA Ngqabutho Nceku Mpofu TAC Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 Gauteng Health National Department of Health It is APPALLING that the SAHRCommission finding that KZN Health had violated the health and human rights of people living with cancer in that province didn’t become a moral and legal clarion call to SUBSTANTIVELY improve cancer treatment-services nationally.

How many must die?

Salome Meyer Spotlight Nomantu Nkomo Ralehoko Cancer Alliance ZA Ngqabutho Nceku Mpofu TAC Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 Gauteng Health Our work did not bring respite to the many cancer patients who have to contend with broken equipment, inadequate number of specialists in the public health sector, leading to unreasonably long waiting periods.

National Department of Health only responds when there’s a threat of litigation 4 cancer

Salome Meyer Spotlight Nomantu Nkomo Ralehoko Cancer Alliance ZA Ngqabutho Nceku Mpofu TAC Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 Gauteng Health failed cancer patients for YEARS without consequences to the political appointees, starting from the various MEC of Gauteng Health.

The Ministerial Cancer Advisory Committee spent HOURS over 6yrs developing recommendations to how cancer care ought to be improved & prioritised.

Salome Meyer Spotlight Nomantu Nkomo Ralehoko Cancer Alliance ZA Ngqabutho Nceku Mpofu TAC Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 what was done for HIV/AIDS” in his first national address as President of the Republic.

Regrettably nothing has meaningfully changed for men, women and children living with cancer. Many continue to die due to lack of essential cancer treatments.

Gauteng Health has dismally