Geography

Community Participation (CP) is the cornerstone of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach and a central tenet of current government health policy. However, the successful imlpementation of community participation is bedevilled by differences in the understanding of what is meant by community participation and what motivates health services to seek CP.

This is the first health report for the Stellenbosch health district, which is health district 1 of the West Coast and Winelands Region, Western Cape Province and relates for the most part to the year 1996/97.

The population of the AIDS-riven kingdom of Swaziland, already one of the smallest countries in Africa, has fallen by around a fifth in the last decade, figures showed on Friday.

Maputo - Mozambique hopes to recruit 8 000 doctors from other African nations to improve a health-care system battered by one of the continent's worst Aids epidemics, the country's health minister said on Monday.

Closing date: 31 July 2007
Health Systems Unit and Centre for malaria & tropical diseases, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal has a vacancy for a Senior Researcher.

Severe shortages of health staff in four Southern African countries is the main barrier to expanding HIV/AIDS treatment, according to a Mdecins sans Frontires (MSF) report released on Thursday.

The continuing violence and human rights abuses in Zimbabwe have prompted a strongly worded statement from the South African Medical Association (SAMA) in which it voiced its concern about the situation, saying that it cannot remain silent on such issues.

Mozambique, 18 February 2007 UNICEF Health Officer Dr. Felix Ramos is no novice to floods disasters. He was here in 2001, the year when severe floods devastated the central region of Mozambique, leaving thousands of people homeless. And now, he is among the first UNICEF staff to be deployed to the flood-affected areas to respond to the current emergency.

Thirty-one (31) health systems leaders from all regions of the world have agreed to launch a Health System Action Network (HSAN) to increase understanding at both the global and country level of the importance of strong health systems to achieve urgent health priorities. HSAN will share what is known across countries by linking health systems leaders through a global network and will provide input to global and donor initiatives so that programmes best serve country priorities.