Join MSF health screening event on World Diabetes Day in Mbashe, Amathole district
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Southern Africa and the Department of Health in the Eastern Cape will commemorate World Diabetes Day on 14 November 2024 with a health screening event in the Mbashe Sub District, Amathole.
“Diabetes ranked as the second leading cause of death among natural causes in the Eastern Cape in 2020, only next to COVID. Working alongside the provincial health department, MSF has supported the successful registration of 2 pick-up-points for medication in Mnquma and Mbashe districts,” says Dr Jan Krisna Rodriquez, Project Medical Responsible for the project in Butterworth.
The event's focus is on encouraging people in the rural community of Mbashe to know their status and recognise that diabetes is a silent killer. Activities will include community sensitisation, diabetes screening, TB screening, and cervical cancer screening.
Event details:
Location: Mbashe Sub-district, Amathole
Time: 09:00
Interviews can be arranged
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About Doctors Without Borders (MSF)
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is a global network of principled medical and other professionals who specialise in medical humanitarian work, driven by our common humanity and guided by medical ethics. We strive to bring emergency medical care to people caught in conflicts, crises, and disasters in more than 70 countries worldwide.
In South Africa, the organisation is recognised as one of the pioneers of providing Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) in the public sector and started the first HIV programmes in South Africa in 1999. Until today, the focus of MSF’s interventions in the country has primarily been on developing new testing and treatment strategies for HIV/AIDS and TB in Eshowe (Kwa-Zulu Natal) and Khayelitsha (Western Cape).
In Tshwane, we run a migration project, and we offer medical and psychosocial care to migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, who struggle to access public health services under South Africa’s increasingly restrictive.
Previously we offered free, high-quality, confidential medical care to survivors of SGBV in Rustenburg.
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