Ngcobo, Eastern Cape

Due to the increasing numbers of AIDS-related deaths, burial space in municipal cemeteries in the South African port city of Durban has become hard to find.

When the Reproductive Health Fund was established our first questions were who is currently undertaking such research, where are they and what are they doing? We needed this information to ensure we were not to duplicate existing work, and also to link new researchers with those experienced. This task was harder than we had thought. First, we found no directory that particularly looked at reproductive health systems research. Second, we found that many people were unaware of what others were doing. Thus we started compiling a directory.