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"Inspiring others towards rural health"

Vision:
For all rural people in Southern Africa to have access to quality health care.

Mission:
RuDASA strives for the adequate staffing of rural health services by appropriately skilled medical staff and to be a voice for the
rural doctor regarding training and working conditions.

STOP PRESS!!

Call for nominations for the
Rural Doctor of the Year award for 2009

Closing date for nominations: 24 July 2009
For more details, click here


13th Annual RuDASA Rural Health Conference

The 2009 RuDASA Rural Health Conference, hosted by the Wits Centre for Rural Health and the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit (RHRU), will be held at the
Alpha Conference Centre, in Broederstroom,
North West province on
27th – 29th August 2009.

Registration now open!
Register at discounted rate before 1 July.
Visit www.rudasconf2009.co.za to register online

Click here for more details

Bursaries for conference attendance are now available from the HIV Clinicians Society. Click here for more details.


Congratulations to the Rural Doctor of the Year 2008 –
Dr Munyadziwa Kwinda!


Keep in touch - Subscribe to mailadoc!

RuDASA uses a number of ways of communicating with its members. In the past we have relied on the website and the newsletters, but we now would like to make use of Mailadoc to give feedback and stimulate discussion. Mailadoc is a email-based discussion group for mostly rural doctors, where a range of issues (from policy to clinical queries) are posted and discussed. If you would like to keep up-to-date with happenings from RuDASA, please subscribe!

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A Strategy to Enhance Health Services in Rural and Other Deprived Areas: 2008-2013
- draft 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


Register now for the 9th WONCA Rural Health World Conference,
June 12-14 2009, Crete.
Theme: Health Inequalities.
Go to http://www.ruralwonca2009.org


African section of the Journal Rural and Remote Health launched!


RuDASA has launched a Recruitment Project, in collaboration with the Africa Health Placements

New procedures and polices now make it easier for foreign qualified doctors to work in South Africa. For more information, click on "Working in South Africa"

 

 
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