As has become tradition, the Grow Great Campaign carves out a day each World Health Worker Week to celebrate a special cadre of healthcare workers i.e. Community Health Workers (CHWs), who are all too often forgotten when we speak about our country’s front line healthcare workers. On this day we show our deep gratitude to CHWs and thank them for the hard work they do, delivering quality healthcare to the doorsteps of millions of South Africans.
Our country is privileged to have a CHW workforce of about 60,000 to 70, 000 brave men and women who have historically been instrumental in the fight against HIV, TB and contributed to improving maternal and child health outcomes across communities in South Africa. These are men and women who care for the communities they serve and go as far as to cook and feed those unable to do so themselves. Over the last year, CHWs have played a critical role in the fight against the largest global pandemic we have seen in recent history. At great perso
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