medico international | Their perseverance has paid off: In the midst of the pandemic, community health workers have won a major victory in their fight for recognition and rights. In July 2020, the Gauteng Province Department of Health (around the metropolises of Johannesburg and Pretoria) announced that the almost 8,500 community health workers in the province would be offered permanent jobs.

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Source: Usche Merk, medico news
Date: 12 May 2021
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Photo: It is not only since the outbreak of the pandemic that the South African Department of Health has been using community health workers as “frontline soldiers.” Here in a poor neighborhood of Pretoria. (Gallo Images / Alet Pretorius, via medico website)