For years, a mother in the rural Eastern Cape had to travel across a river and walk for two hours to get to a clinic. Then, her community teamed up with a nonprofit and the provincial health department to change that. These days, the furthest she has to walk to get her newborn to a nurse is fiv.
For years, a mother in the rural Eastern Cape walked for two hours to get to a clinic until her community teamed up with a nonprofit and the provincial health department to change that.
Rural provinces such the Eastern Cape and Limpopo are winning SA’s vaccination race. Here are the problems the far-flung vaccine sites have faced and how they were solved.