South
Africa

Enhancing access to quality health care and creating lasting impact since 1995.

Selected Achievements

  • Under the RISE project, Jhpiego South Africa supported the National Department of Health in facilitating event-based surveillance pilot trainings in six of the nine provinces in South Africa. To date, over 100 health workers have been trained to strengthen South Africa’s early warning and response systems.

  • Under the Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) project, Jhpiego helped build the capacity of master trainers and providers of VMMC services in provincial health departments, providing more than 400,000 men and boys with VMMC services.

  • Through the Global Fund Strategic Initiative on Adolescent Girls and Young Women, Jhpiego supported the strengthening of sexual and reproductive health, rights, and HIV services integration.

Our Projects

Improving Health Through Integrated Approaches

Reaching Impact Saturation and Epidemic Control (RISE)

  • Reaching Impact Saturation and Epidemic Control (RISE) is a multi-country project funded by the U.S. Government to save lives and improve health through integrated, evidence-based approaches to address urgent gaps in lifesaving services. RISE works across all levels of the health system to strengthen the HIV/TB epidemic response, to limit the spread of deadly disease outbreaks through Global Health Security programming, and to reduce preventable morbidity and mortality through integrated maternal, newborn, and child health, nutrition, tuberculosis, and malaria services. RISE supports country governments to strengthen essential data systems, supply chain and commodity management, human resources for health, domestic resource mobilization, and other cross-cutting health system functions to accelerate transition to country ownership. Since 2019, RISE has supported programs in more than 25 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The program runs through December 2027. Learn more here.

Addressing Health Security Gaps

We are addressing South Africa’s most pressing health security gaps by strengthening core surveillance systems, enhancing emergency response coordination and mechanisms, and expanding the capacity of the public health workforce.

  • We support the national rollout of integrated disease surveillance and response, the operationalization of event-based surveillance, the capacity building of a multisectoral surge workforce, and strengthening of public health emergency coordination.

  • We support simulation exercises and stakeholders for the World Health Organization Pandemic Fund to strengthen operational readiness across sectors and levels of the health system.

  • We utilize Jhpiego’s technical expertise in disease surveillance, emergency management, and workforce development with its embedded presence in the National Department of Health to ensure coordinated, scalable, and sustainable implementation aligned with World Health Organization guidance and the Pandemic Fund’s global objectives.

Country Director

Mehebub Mahomed

Country Director

Video Highlights

“We want to thank Jhpiego for the work they have done. We also want to thank the organization for focusing on rural areas, as it is very important to know that circumcision is free.”
— Prince Nhlanganiso Zulu, KwaZulu-Natal