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Overcoming apartheid health care to achieve equitable access to ART: Exploring resource requirements in South Africa
By Sue Cleary and Di McIntyre

This policy brief explores the affordability of equitable access to ART in South Africa by and beyond 2020, within the context of the proposed National Health Insurance system.

Other new CREHS policy briefs include:

Reducing user fees: implementation challenges and a possible solution

This policy brief examines the challenges of implementing fee reduction in the Kenyan context, and assesses an innovative approach to alleviate these challenges through direct funding of health facilities. 

Nurses attitudes towards living and working in rural areas: initial findings from the CREHS cohort study in South Africa

A short report on the initial findings of a longitudinal study in South Africa that seeks to understand how nurses feel about living and working in rural areas and what interventions can be implemented to entice more of them to do so.  

Spotlight on Malaria and case study: towards equitable coverage of insecticide treated nets in Tanzania

Short summaries of CREHS related research on Malaria from Tanzania, Kenya and Nigeria. 

Increasing access to health services using mobile health units: implementation experiences in Tamil Nadu and Orissa States, India

A policy brief outlining the challenges and solutions to effective implementation of mobile health units in India.