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Viewing cable 06PRETORIA990, SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH MARCH 10 2006 ISSUE
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Summary
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¶1. Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a
public health newsletter highlighting South African health
issues based on press reports and studies of South African
researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect
the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week's
newsletter cover: SA's Aid to Orphans; Health Department Cites
HIV/AIDS Progress in South Africa; Health Department Plans to
Improve HIV Data; South Africa's Contribution to UN AIDS
Report; South Africa Silent on HIV/AIDS Airline Tax; Findings
from the District Health Barometer; Health Inequalities between
Khayelitsha and Cape Town Still Present; South Africa to
Develop Vaccine Manufacturing Facility; and Firms Begin to Feel
HIV/AIDS Impacts on Work Force. End Summary.
SA's Aid to Orphans
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¶2. A Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) report, "A
situational analysis of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC)
in four districts of South Africa" details the South African
governmental policies aimed at vulnerable children. The four-
year study concentrated on the Free State and North West
provinces, which have high HIV/AIDS prevalence rates.
Insufficient capacity and inadequate resources are two of the
most crucial challenges faced by the government dealing with an
increasing number of OVC and high levels of poverty, said
Donald Skinner, one of the authors of the HSRC study. The
foster care grant is currently $100 (R590) a month and is
important to families (often grandparents) taking care of OVC
who have no other source of income. Foster parents or
guardians can also apply for other grants such as care
dependency and child support which amount to about $30 each.
According to Selwyn Jehoma, acting Deputy Director-General of
Social Security in the Department of Social Development,
governmental strategies to increase the number of social
workers and allow OVC in foster care to access grants have
increased coverage. The government adopted a policy to retain
and recruit social workers by offering them higher salaries to
address the problem of capacity. All nine provinces are
expected to almost double the number of social workers over the
next two years. In addition, by making it easier to access
foster care grants, the foster care applicants have increased.
In 2002, 150,000 children were registered under foster care,
300,000 are currently registered. The HSRC report points out
that the government has begun a national action plan where fast
track delivery of services is emphasized. Government will
focus on services such as access to birth certificates and
identity documents, access to grants, protection from abuse and
neglect as well as provision of psychosocial support and the
monitoring of vulnerable households. According to the UN
Children's Fund (UNICEF), HIV/AIDS has orphaned more than a
million children in South Africa. Source: HIV-AIDS, IOL,
February 22.
Health Department Cites HIV/AIDS Progress in South Africa
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¶3. According to Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang,
South African HIV prevalence is no longer increasing as
significantly as it was in the early 1990s. The Minister cited
as positive developments youth heeding prevention messages
regarding abstinence, faithfulness and condom use. Minister
Tshabalala-Msimang stated that in order to mark 2006 as the
SIPDIS
year of accelerated HIV and AIDS prevention, government will
intensify its interventions targeted at particular risk groups
including people between ages of 25 to 29 years. She also
cited the need to intensify interventions aimed at improving
the socio-economic status of women, people living in informal
settlements and other vulnerable groups. Through the
implementation of the Comprehensive Plan for HIV/AIDS, there
are now service points in every health district for the
provision of a range of interventions including prevention,
nutrition, management of opportunistic infections and
antiretroviral treatment. The HIV/AIDS budget allocation spent
by the Health Department increased from R264-million in 2001 to
R1.5-billion in 2005. More than R3.4 billion will be spent on
antiretroviral drugs for the next three years. The number of
health facilities providing voluntary counseling and testing
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increased from 1,500 in 2002/03 to more than 3,700 in 2004/05
with the numbers of people using them increasing from 691,000
in 2002/03 to more than 1.3 million in 2004/05. As of now, the
available data includes: accumulative number of patients
assessed; accumulative number of patients initiated on
treatment; CD4 counts and viral loads; and the number of
accredited health facilities. Source: SAPA, HIV/AIDS, IOL,
March 2; The Star and Pretoria News, March 3.
Health Department Plans to Improve HIV Data
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¶4. Dr. Nomonde Qundu, the Health Department's head of
HIV/AIDS, announced implementation plans for a nationwide
monitoring system for HIV patients by the end of 2006. Lack of
data makes it difficult for the Department to determine how
many patients have dropped out of the antiretroviral program,
how many have died, or how many have had to change drugs
because of side effects. Pilot patient monitoring systems
operate in Free State, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, Eastern Cape and
Gauteng provinces and staff are being trained to expand the
program. Source: Business Day, March 3.
South Africa's Contribution to UN AIDS Report
---------------------------------------------
¶5. The Health Department is preparing a status report on its
HIV/AIDS treatment plans as a contribution to a larger United
Nations AIDS report. Few civil organizations had responded to
the Department's request for comments to the initial draft of
the report. Representatives from these civil organizations
(such as Treatment Action Campaign, Cosatu and AIDS Law
Project) objected to relying on the South African National AIDS
Council (SANAC) for information. SANAC cancelled its December
meeting that was supposed to discuss the first draft. In
addition, SANAC relied only on questionnaires distributed to
members for input to the draft. Source: City Press, March 5.
South Africa Silent on HIV/AIDS Airline Tax
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¶6. As of yet, National Treasury has yet to decide whether it
will impose a new AIDS and poverty tax initially proposed by
France and Britain to raise money for developing countries so
that they can meet Millennium Development Goals. Spokesmen for
the Department of Transport announced that the South African
government would contribute to the international fund, but
would follow the International Civil Aviation Organization
guidance regarding the tax imposition. Source: Business Day,
February 27, Sunday Independent, March 5.
Findings from the District Health Barometer
-------------------------------------------
¶7. The District Health Barometer publishes health statistics
of the country's 53 health districts. The Barometer was
complied by the Health Systems Trust (HST), based on statistics
supplied by the districts themselves. HST researchers caution
that not all the figures are reliable as some districts are not
yet keeping accurate records.
Ekurhuleni Metro on Gauteng's East Rand spends more per person
on primary healthcare services than other health district in
the country, but Ekurhuleni scores low in some key health
services. While Ekurhuleni spent R389 ($65) per person, the
Gert Sibande (Ermelo) district in Mpumalanga spent R42 ($7) per
person on primary health care, according to figures for 2001
(the latest year that these statistics are available). Despite
relatively high health expenditures, Ekurhuleni scores low in
key service provision areas. Only 15% of women attending
antenatal clinics in Ekurhuleni in 2004 were tested for HIV.
This contrasts sharply with the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal,
where most health districts test over 80% of pregnant women.
Ekurhuleni also had the lowest caesarean birth rate of the
metropolitan areas (13.9%), two points lower than the
internationally recommended rate of 16%. The most caesareans
were performed in KwaZulu's eThekwini metropolitan area
(Durban) at 27.2%, a number that is high but could be related
to the HIV epidemic in the province. Caesareans decrease the
likelihood of mother passing HIV to their babies. All the
rural districts in the Eastern Cape and Limpopo provinces have
low caesarean section rates of close to 10% or below, probably
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reflecting poor quality of maternity services.
¶8. Another indicator of maternal services is the stillbirth
rate, or the number of full-term babies per 1000 that are born
dead. Developed countries have a stillbirth rate of about 10
per 1000 births (1%). Some districts report high stillbirth
rates, with the highest rates reported in urban areas. The
worst reported rate in South Africa is the West Rand in
Gauteng, where 68 babies per 1000 were born dead in 2004.
Poorer rural areas in Limpopo (Vhembe and Mopani) have the
lowest stillbirth rate. Of the metropolitan areas,
Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni have the worst stillbirth rate
(35), followed by Tshwane (34). Cape Town has the lowest rate
(21). HST researchers assert that while Gauteng districts have
consistently high stillbirth rates, this could be because women
from neighboring provinces choose to deliver in Gauteng,
complicated pregnancies are referred there and the recording of
stillbirths may be more accurate.
¶9. The most overworked nurses in the country are in the
Southern district (Klerkdorp-Potchefstroom-Ventersdorp) of the
North West, where clinics reported that their professional
nurses saw an average of 92 patients a day. The recommended
average is 35 patients per day. Nurses in the Northern Cape's
Kgalagadi district were the most overworked of all rural
districts, seeing 63 patients each every day. Nurses in Chris
Hani district in the Eastern Cape saw the least patients,
around 21 per day. In the metropolitan areas, Cape Town nurses
were busiest, seeing 54 patients. eThekwini followed close
behind with 50 patients. These nurses had more than double the
workload of Johannesburg nurses, who saw 21 patients in a day.
¶10. Tuberculosis is one of the country's most common
infectious diseases, yet in many districts the cure rates are
very low. The cure rate is defined as people who test negative
for TB after six months of treatment. The country's average
cure rate is 56%, and covers people hospitalized as well as
attending clinics. The worst performing district is Sisonke
(Kokstad area) in KwaZulu-Natal, which cures less than a
quarter of its patients (23.7%). Eden district (Mossel Bay to
Knysna) in the Western Cape performed best with over three-
quarters of its TB patients (77.9%) being cured after six
months. The Western Cape, which has one of the country's
highest TB rates, is the best performer and the Cape Town is
the best performing metropolitan area (70%). Six of the ten
worst performing districts are in KwaZulu-Natal, and the
eThekwini is the worst performing metropolitan area, curing
less than a third of its patients (30.1%). The HIV epidemic in
the province is a likely complicating factor as TB is the most
common opportunistic infection.
¶11. A high rate of diarrhea usually means that people do not
have access to clean water. This is evidently the case in
Mopani in Limpopo (Phalaborwa-Tzaneen) where close to 400
children under five per 1000 were treated for diarrhea. The 10
districts with the highest incidence of diarrhea were all in
rural areas, the majority in KwaZulu-Natal and Limpopo. The
eThekweni area also had an exceptionally high rate of 270 cases
of diarrhea per 1000 children, double that of the next highest
metropolitan area. With the exception of eThekwini, urban
areas have the lowest rate of diarrhea. The 10 districts with
the lowest incidence of diarrhea include all six districts of
Gauteng, three Western Cape districts and the Nelson Mandela
metropolitan area. Source: Health E-News, February 28.
Health Inequalities between Khayelitsha and Cape Town Still
Present
--------------------------------------------- -------------
¶12. In Khayelitsha, diarrhea and gastro-enteritis have
overtaken HIV/AIDS as the biggest killers of children under
five years with the deaths doubling over the last four years.
By mid- 2004, 60 Khayelitsha toddlers had died of diarrheal
disease, a preventable and treatable illness. The Cape Town
Equity Gauge, established to address the inequities in
Khayelitsha, assessed the public health facilities in the
township. At least 55% of people in Khayelitsha, with
approximately 500,000 residents, live below the poverty line.
Half of all adults are unemployed while one in three people
have no access to water in their homes. There is an average of
105 people per toilet in Sites B and C in Khayelitsha, or one
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toilet per seven households where toilets have been provided.
Several toilet systems have been tried in Khayelitsha but most
fail as the systems are unable to handle the demand.
¶13. The infant mortality rate in 2003 (deaths of babies under
a year old) was 43 per 1000 live births in Khayelitsha, while
in Cape Town, it was 25. In 2004, the Infant Mortality Rate in
Khayelitsha was reduced to 36. Almost 30% of residents do not
have easy access to water and 80% of Khayelitsha residents live
in shacks. A total of 14,521 households do not have access to
water while the sanitation backlog is around 29,811 households.
Top 5 causes of death among the under 1 year olds (2004)
include: (1) Ill defined and unknown causes including natural
(55 deaths at 19.2%); (2) Diarrhea and gastro-enteritis (52
deaths at 18.8%); (3) Short gestation and low birth weight (39
deaths at 13.5%); (4) HIV/AIDS (37 deaths at 11.7%); and (5)
Pneumonia (27 deaths at 9.2%). In 2005, there were 26,794
cases of Tuberculosis treated in Khayelitsha, a yearly increase
of 9.7%. One clinic in Khayelitsha had the same number of TB
cases as the three entire districts in Cape Town. In 2005,
over 2000 cases of TB were registered at the Site B Clinic
alone. Epidemiologists believe the AIDS epidemic is fuelling
the TB epidemic with 74% of TB patients in Khayelitsha also HIV
positive. At Site B, nine out of ten TB patients are HIV
positive. Source: Health E-News, February 28.
South Africa to Develop Vaccine Manufacturing Facility
--------------------------------------------- ---------
¶14. The Cape Biotech Trust, an initiative of the Department of
Science and Technology, finalized an agreement with the Biovac
Consortium, a public/private partnership with the Department of
Health to develop a manufacturing and research facility for
vaccines. South Africa is the first sub-Saharan country with
this capacity. Egypt is the only other African country having
this capability. Once completed, the facility will speed
development work on various pediatric vaccines, including DTP,
hepatitis B and HIB into a single dose. The Cape Biotech Trust
will provide R24 billion ($6 billion) to develop the facility
in Cape Town. Source: Sunday Argus, February 19.
Firms Begin to Feel HIV/AIDS Impacts on Work Force
--------------------------------------------- -----
¶15. According to Grant Thornton's 2006 International Business
Owners Survey (IBOS), South African business owners are
increasingly starting programs to intervene against HIV/AIDS.
Concern runs particularly high in the Eastern Cape cities of
Port Elizabeth and East London, where 97% of the businesses
surveyed reported a sizable impact on their business growth.
The sectors showing the highest growth in concern were
construction and retail, where the percentages increased to 87%
and 88%, respectively, from 75% and 74% in 2005. Training
proved the most popular element in companies' HIV/AIDS
management plans, with 65% participating in these programs.
However, only 35% of companies pay for employees' treatment
costs. Lee-Anne Bac, the director of strategic solutions at
Grant Thornton, said the extent of interventions is increasing
compared to 2005, when the majority of business owners did not
have any companywide policies. A study commissioned by AIC
Insurance in 2005 showed that South Africa loses an estimated
R12 billion a year due to absenteeism in the workplace, of
which between R1.8 billion and R2.2 billion could be directly
attributed to HIV/AIDS. In the mining sector, Harmony
estimated costs related to HIV/AIDS would amount to 7.5% of
total labor costs over the next 15 years, while its HIV/AIDS
workplace program cost R10 million ($1.7 million) in the last
financial year. AngloGold Ashanti spent R14.6 million ($2.4
million) in 2005 providing antiretrovirals, voluntary
counseling and home-based care for terminally ill former
employees, as well as research, monitoring and evaluation.
Recently, the Epicenter AIDS Risk Management Foundation was
appointed as consultant for a R2.4 million ($400,000) research
project funded by the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS. The study will
also examine the impact of the pandemic on the business sector,
focusing on KwaZulu-Natal, which has been the hardest-hit
province. The Grant Thornton IBOS Survey contacted 300
business owners who employ between 50 and 250 staff in South
Africa. Source: Business Report, March 8.
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