Cape Town

Contract position: Project Associate

Employer: 
mHealth
Closing Date: 
11 December 2012

Cell-Life is looking for a mobile health (mHealth) Project Associate, based at its offices in Cape Town. The position will involve working on some of Cell-Life’s mHealth services in health promotion and maternal health.  Areas of work will include assisting in:

Contract Position: Project Coordinator

Employer: 
mHealth
Closing Date: 
11 December 2012

Cell-Life is looking for a mobile health (mHealth) Project Coordinator, based at its offices in Cape Town. The position will involve running some of Cell-Life’s mHealth health services in health promotion and maternal health. Areas of work will include:

  • Project planning and reporting
  • Conceptualising, costing and setting up new mHealth services, particularly ones that use communication with people/patients to improve health outcomes
  • Writing content
  • Piloting and evaluating mHealth services
  • Partnership development, including with other NGOs and government.
  • Marketing mhealth services.

 
The position requires a range of skills and experience:

Review of the Equity Watch work in East and Southern Africa

Published by: 
EQUINET

From 26-28 April 2012, EQUINET held a regional methods workshop in Cape Town, South Africa. It gathered the lead institutions of country teams in the Equity Watch work, the EQUINET steering committee, regional and international agencies and networks involved in work on health equity. The workshop aimed to: provide training on equity analysis and discuss future approaches to capacity building on equity analysis; review Equity Watch work at country level and the learning and implications from the work for future monitoring of health equity within countries; and review and discuss the draft regional Equity Watch and the follow up and dissemination.

Cost-Effectiveness of Antiretroviral Treatment for HIV-Positive Adults in a South African Township

Published by: 
Health Systems Trust
Introduction: This study aims to establish the costs and effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV positive adults in a resource-constrained public-sector setting. The research compares ART to the current status quo for HIV-positive adults who are dependent on the public sector for care in South Africa i.e the treatment of opportunistic and HIV- elated infections and events (e.g. wasting) in the absence of ART. This research is clearly important in the developing country context, where the HIV epidemic is expected to have a dramatic impact on life expectancy and to lead to early mortality for a large proportion of the population (Dorrington, Bourne et al. 2001). This study presents the first cost-effectiveness results derived from a public sector clinic-based treatment programme. Cost, effectiveness and quality of life data have been collected from a single cohort receiving care in three HIV-dedicated clinics in Khayelitsha, a township on the outskirts of Cape Town. This setting is similar to what will be encountered in the public sector ART rollout.

The State of housing, water and sanitation in the greater Metropolitan area of Cape Town 1995

Published by: 
Health Systems Trust
Improving to basic facilities such as water, sanitation and housing is a key aspect of the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP). Although most local authorities can identify the most undeserves areas, estimates of the extent of the need are likely to provide the most effective motivation for targeting investment and planning interventions. To this end, a survey of access to basic facilities, including housing, water supply and sanitation, was carried out by the Health Department of the Cape Metropolitan Council (CMC) for the Greater Cape Town area, excluding the city centre and other areas not serviced by the CMC, between 1994 and 1995. Population estimates for the greater metropolitan area were also obtained.

Health Systems Research in 1996

Series Name: 
HST Update
Published by: 
Health Systems Trust
During mid-September, the Health Systems Trust held a three day health systems research conference. This event provided the opportunity for health systems researchers from all over the country to present their research. One of the benefits of the conference came from the immense diversity of participants and their projects. There were new researchers, who were attempting research for the first time and highly experienced researchers with established international reputations. This allowed considerable exchange of ideas and networking between the participants. Projects ranged from those looking at the services of a single clinic or hospital, to those which looked at the whole health systems in South Africa. Despite this diversity, there was one theme that brought them all together. This was their common vision to provide relevant information to decision makers, which will ultimately transform South Africa's health services, to one which meets the needs of all South Africans.