• RHAP comment on proposed PHC revitalization strategy - 14 April 2011. Their submission can be downloaded here.
• “The international journal Rural and Remote Health, the African section of which is endorsed by RuDASA, has been accepted for an International Scientific Index (ISI) listing. This means that authors with academic affiliations can earn DOE subsidies for publications in the journal.  Go to http://www.rrh.org.au//news/shownewsnew.asp?NewsID=223
• The World Health Organisation has published recommendations on the recruitment and retention of health workers in rural and remote areas.  Two RuDASA committee members were part of the international expert panel that drafted these. The guidelines were launched in South Africa in September at a function co-hosted by the Wits Centre for Rural Health. For more information go to http://www.rrh.org.au//news/shownewsnew.asp?NewsID=222. To download the recommendations go to http://www.who.int/hrh/en/. For more information about the launch, visit the Rural health Advocacy Project at www.rhap.org.za (Clink on press room and downloads).
• 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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