South Africa’s health transition is characterized by a quadruple burden of communicable, non-communicable, perinatal and maternal, and injury-related disorders. The country faces relentless have supported burden of infectious and non-communicable diseases that the health system fails to combat due to fragmentation of the healthcare system. The high burden of the HIV and AIDS epidemic coincide with high burden of tuberculosis, high maternal and child mortality, high levels of violence and injuries, and a growing burden of non-communicable diseases. In response to the national health crisis, the South African Government introduced the re-engineering of primary healthcare (PHC) strategy and adopted the three-stream approach to PHC re-engineering, with one of the three streams being a ward-based PHC outreach team for each electoral ward (WBOT).
To complement the government’s efforts in reducing the quadruple disease burden, FAH:
- Provided continued thought leadership on the Ward Based Outreach Teams (WBOT), including interpretation of the investment case and disbursement mechanisms to provinces