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SARRAH provides funding and technical advice to partners working in the South African health system and the national response to HIV and AIDS. The main focus of the programme is support for the Ministry of Health's commitment to improving the health of all South Africans. SARRAH is funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and managed by HLSP, an international health agency. Read more ...

PARTNERS

SARRAH supports national initiatives to strengthen health and HIV.

Key partners are

The programme supports civil society organisations, such as the Treatment Action Campaign, that monitor and advocate for expanding the HIV and AIDS response.

We are also supporting a parliamentary oversight committee on HIV and AIDS and the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health.

SARRAH works alongside international development partners and multilateral organisations.

ANOTHER TWO YEARS FOR SARRAH

The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) has extended HLSP’s contract for the management of the SARRAH programme for another two years and increased the total project budget to £32.2m.

 

The Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, speaks to the media about the orientation programme for new hospital CEOs in February 2013.

 

SARRAH was designed as a five year programme to run from 2010 to 2014. In this final two year phase, the programme will continue to support the Department of Health’s ambitious reform programme as well as the South African National AIDS Council, the Treatment Action Campaign and two parliamentary oversight committees on HIV and health.

 
Key work in the next two years will include support for the NDOH’s programme to contract private sector general practitioners to work in the public sector. This is jointly funded by the European Union, DFID and the NDOH. A new DOH programme on hospital governance and management will also be supported.
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WHAT'S NEW

SARRAH is supporting the new Academy for Leadership and Management in Health Care. The academy will address skills gaps at all levels of the health system, including clinical and hospital management. More...

New case studies

“Counting our Assets, one by one,” Asset management at Durban’s Prince Mshiyeni hospital.

 

Interview with SANAC CEO Dr Fareed Abdullah.

 

“Improving quality, saving lives, saving time...” Quality improvement in a North West hospital.

 
SARRAH extension
Good news: the SARRAH programme has been extended to the end of 2014.
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SARRAH BLOG

DFID Senior Health Adviser, Dr Bob Fryatt, writes about developments in UK/South African cooperation in early 2013.

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