South Africa

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Since 1995, we’ve been increasing access to quality health services for families.

  • More than 260,000 individuals have learned their HIV status through Jhpiego-supported HIV testing services.
  • Jhpiego technical support helped build the capacity of master trainers and providers of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) services in provincial health departments—resulting in more than 400,000 men and boys receiving VMMC services.
  • Advocacy for nurse-led antiretroviral services contributed to the South African government’s approval for nurses and midwives to have authority to prescribe antiretroviral drugs for people living with HIV.
  • Technical support to VMMC programs in two districts in KwaZulu resulted in identification of 712 (2%) index clients—individuals newly diagnosed as HIV-positive and/or an HIV-positive individual who is enrolled in HIV treatment services—out of 35,449 men tested for HIV. Of the 712 clients identified, 670 (94%) accepted assisted partner notification services, with 167 (25%) of partners newly diagnosed.

Our Technical Areas in South Africa

Our Work in South Africa

Provision of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in South Africa under the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief

With funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Jhpiego is working with the Government of South Africa to provide voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) services in six districts in KwaZulu-Natal province as well as the City of Cape Town. The objectives of this project are to:

  • Support the Government of South Africa in ensuring provision of high-quality, high-volume, cost-efficient VMMC services to males aged 15–34 through implementation of innovative demand creation strategies.
  • Ensure that VMMC services are integrated and implemented as a package of comprehensive HIV prevention, care and treatment services.
  • Coordinate forecasting, procurement, quality assurance, distribution and storage of VMMC surgical kits and commodities.
  • Support transition of direct VMMC service delivery to the national Department of Health facilities.

The people we serve

Bringing COVID-19 Vaccinations to South Africa’s Most Vulnerable Communities

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Nurse Nozipho Magubane wipes down plastic chairs and sets them up in a bright corridor at Makhaza Mall. She is preparing to open the Jhpiego-supported pop-up COVID-19 vaccination site in Khayelitsha, a poor neighborhood that is one of the least-vaccinated areas in Cape Town. Though the setting looks different from

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Vax mobile in South Africa

Meet Manthomeng Matete

Meet Manthomeng Matete, who coordinates the Community and Universal Testing for TB among Contacts (CUT-TB) study in Lesotho. A three-country study, CUT-TB is evaluating new contact tracing strategies with the ultimate aim of improving case detection. Jhpiego leads the study in Lesotho in partnership with The Aurum Institute. What problems is study hoping to solve?

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Women in a waiting room

Preventing HIV amid the Pandemic

Cape Town, South Africa – Nurse Nomajama Nomnganga dons the gloves and apron she’ll wear during the first circumcision surgery of the day. On the other side of the surgical bed, Nokuzola Dyonase, also a professional nurse trained to do minor surgery, arranges sterile forceps, needles and gauze. For this pair of nurses at Jhpiego’s

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HIV Awareness

Jhpiego Delivers Hope, Safeguards Health in South Africa During Pandemic

Jhpiego mobilizer Lindokuhle Hlongwane and his team pull their Kombi van to a stop on the road just outside a client’s home in Rockdale, a village in uThukela District in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa, to drop off medication. Being careful to maintain a social distance, Lindokuhle gives his client, who is living with HIV, her refill of

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Nurse in South Africa

U.S., South African Nurses Partner at New Hospital

Read about the nursing exchange program between the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the new Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital.

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Newborn girl wearing a sweater and cap being held in a woman's arms.

Country Contact

Mehebub Mohamed, Country Director

Tel. 27 31 563 0819

15 Ennisdale Drive

Durban North, South Africa 4051

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