Letter to President re invitation to shadow a rural doctor for a day – 16 February 2010

RHAP Press Release: Shadow a rural doctor for a day – 12 February 2010

RHAP Rural Health in Focus: Making expenditure control, efficiency and equity work for Rural Health – 12 February 2010

RHAP Press Release: Rural communities disadvantaged by KZN Community Service Medical Officer placements for 2010 – 11 December 2010

A proposal to improve selection and training of health care workers for rural areas (Conference resolution – RuDASA Students) – 29 August 2009

Press release - Launch of the Rural Health Advocacy Project - 13 August 2009 [76kb ]

Open letter to the Ministers of Health and Finance RE: the future of rural health care - July 2009

Press Statement by the Rural Doctors Association of Southern Africa - The government's OSD proposal is anti-rural –27 June 2009

A Strategy to Enhance Health Services in Rural and Other Deprived Areas: 2008-2013 - 5 August 2008
Note: This is the National Department of Health's draft rural health strategy, to which RuDASA has contributed.  The Department has asked for input and feedback.  Any such feedback can be submitted through RuDASA, via the Advocacy Committee's Dr Bernhard Gaede besam@lantic.net

RuDASA supports Dr Colin Pfaff and Dr Mark Blaylock [2008]

Statement by the Rural Doctors Association of Southern Africa (RuDASA) - 09 February 2008

Rural Health Strategy - draft 2 March 2006
Note: This is the National Department of Health's draft rural health strategy, to which RuDASA has contributed.  The Department has asked for input and feedback.  Any such feedback can be submitted through RuDASA, via the chairperson Dr Bernhard Gaede besam@lantic.net

RUDASA Strategic Plan 2005

Rudasa Statement on Midlevel Medical Workers
(The following statement on midlevel medical workers was adopted at the Annual General Meeting of RuDASA during the conference in Worcester in August 2003.)

Caring for HIV/AIDS patients - An open letter to the Honourable Minister of Health, Dr Tshabalala-Msimang

Recruiting foreign doctors to South Africa: difficulties and dilemmas by Ian Couper - June 2003, Rural and Remote Journal [you will need a username and password to read the complete artilce]

Do South African rural origin medical students return to rural practice?
by Elma de Vries and Steve Reid - May 2003 [47KB ]

Victory for Dr Thys von Mollendorf

Letter to the Department of Health regarding Dr Von Mollendorf

Resolutions Of the 5th Conference of the Rural Doctors Association of Southern Africa held at Hartwater 9th to 11th August 2001

Position Paper: January 2001: Crisis in Staffing of Rural Hospitals

Registration and Recruitment of Foreign Qualified Doctors- A proposal towards alleviating the crisis in rural hospitals

Rural Practice and Family Medicine: A Submission to the Committee for General Practice of the Medical and Dental Professional Board regarding the Future Regulation of Family Medicine and General Practice

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