Health

Most clinics are improving but not all of them perform equally well. This month we look at what poor performing clinics can learn from good performers.

Over the last year we’ve seen tangible improvements at clinics. This month we look at what clinics can do to sustain this progress.

This month we focus on what clinics can do to improve youth and adolescent services. This is particularly important during ‘initiation season’.

Asivikelane Health now covers 45 clinics! This month we shine a light on Tuberculosis prevention and treatment, which remains critical even as we tackle COVID-19.

Asivikelane Health participants are making change happen at 25 clinics in Buffalo City and OR Tambo Health Districts. Building on this success we expand to Nelson Mandela Bay next month, eyeing national coverage in future.

Clinics have green lights for the basic functions. They should now focus on specialised services like ‘Happy Hour’ for young people to access much needed sexual and reproductive health care.

The 4th COVID-19 wave is not over in the Eastern Cape. Our first data release of 2022 spotlights implementable measures that government can take to increase vaccination rates in the province.

Clinics are innovating to cope with the impact of COVID-19. But they call on national and provincial government for sustainable solutions to resource constraints.

Asivikelane Health has expanded to include 15 more clinics in Buffalo City and OR Tambo District. Many of the new clinics are highly inefficient. Long waiting times impacts residents’ well-being. We identify steps that clinics can take to address this.