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Delivering and making primary health care accessible to everyone is not an easy task in rural Eastern Cape with under-resourced health facilities, extreme poverty, inaccessible topography, a lack of even basic services such as electricity, water and sanitation. Even with the developmental gains made since 1994, the historical legacy of underdevelopment is clearly evident in most parts of the province.<\/p>\n
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The\u00a0Donald Woods Foundation is\u00a0addressing this threat with a number of groundbreaking health programmes that bring primary health care to the poorest of communities in the Eastern Cape.\u00a0The Foundation does this\u00a0by tackling HIV and Tuberculosis; Diabetes and Hypertension; Maternal and Child Health as part of its flagship health programme \u2013 Health in Every Hut.<\/p>\n
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Tuberculosis remains the leading cause of recorded deaths in South Africa according to the 2015 WHO Global TB Report. DWF is partnering with Eli Lilly and United Way Worldwide to tackle MDR-TB in the Eastern Cape by helping the Department of Health (DoH) fight MDR-TB.<\/span><\/p>\n Lilly and the DWF are working together to reduce TB transmission by strengthening prevention and control efforts in local clinics, taxi ranks and prisons and mobilising community healthcare workers to bring care to people in their homes and schools.<\/span><\/p>\n The DWF Multi Drug-Resistant TB (MDR-TB) Programme deploys health workers at Nkqubela Hospital and at more than 30 local clinics in the greater East London area, where they assist with direct observation of treatment, peer education and setting up and managing support groups.<\/span><\/p>\n In addition our peer educators assist with screening and raising TB awareness in Fort Glamorgan and Mdantsane prisons, where overcrowded conditions are prevalent.<\/span><\/p>\n In line with the growing threat of diabetes\/TB co-infection and co-morbidity, the programme has introduced and trained our health workers to screen for diabetes. HiEH CHOWs also assist Madwaleni Hospital with patient tracing in the Mbashe area of operation and provide crucial follow-up care to help patients to adhere to their treatment regimes.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner] <\/div>\r\n [\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”] Delivering and making primary health care accessible to everyone is not an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7DEjh-Zp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2858,"url":"https:\/\/www.donaldwoodsfoundation.org\/health\/","url_meta":{"origin":3807,"position":0},"title":"Health Care","date":"March 24, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"[vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row\" content_placement=\"top\" parallax=\"content-moving\" parallax_image=\"3604\" css=\".vc_custom_1461071491860{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}\"][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row\" content_placement=\"top\" css=\".vc_custom_1458658942229{padding-bottom: 20px !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: contain !important;}\"][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]","rel":"","context":"Similar post","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2493,"url":"https:\/\/www.donaldwoodsfoundation.org\/project-films\/","url_meta":{"origin":3807,"position":1},"title":"Project films","date":"March 9, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] DWF films on the Foundation's work The Foundation has a number of films about our work. 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The Foundation\u2019s health programmes are distinctive in that we have:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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