Healthy Futures South Africa

Healthy Futures South Africa Africa Health Collaborative at the University of Cape Town. In partnership with The Mastercard Foundation

What does building healthcare around a community mean? 🫂👇 Community-oriented primary care (COPC) links primary healthcar...
21/09/2026

What does building healthcare around a community mean? 🫂👇

Community-oriented primary care (COPC) links primary healthcare with the daily realities of the people it serves. It starts by understanding the community: its priorities, resources, relationships, and local organisations working to improve lives.

During the Klipfontein Learning Circle on 3 September 2026, participants took a community walk through Kewtown to map local assets. The walk revealed existing knowledge, relationships, and resources from educators, entrepreneurs, and local gathering spaces. These assets are vital for creating health initiatives that are relevant, collaborative, and sustainable.

This is COPC in practice: working beyond health facilities, listening to communities, and collaborating with local partners to understand the factors shaping health and the strengths that support it.

Thanks to Calvyn Protestant Church for hosting the Learning Circle and to all organisations and community members who shared their insights into Klipfontein.

Day 4 at and one final AHC entrepreneur takes centre stage at the Africa Health Collaborative exhibition. 🌍Today, we f...
09/09/2026

Day 4 at and one final AHC entrepreneur takes centre stage at the Africa Health Collaborative exhibition. 🌍

Today, we featured Chris K. Meunier, CEO of VAS MedTech, a venture reimagining how and where specialist women’s healthcare can be delivered.

Its flagship innovation, FlexiGyn™, is a portable and reusable hysteroscope designed to bring uterine imaging out of traditional theatre settings and closer to the communities where women live—making care more accessible, affordable and humane.

This is what our presence at the Congress has been about: creating access to the rooms, networks and conversations that can help African health innovations grow. Over four days, our entrepreneurs have shared the challenges they are addressing and the solutions they are building with a global public health audience.

As the Congress comes to a close, we are proud of Chris and every entrepreneur who represented UCT and the Africa Health Collaborative at Booth 22.

Learn more about VAS MedTech: https://www.vas-med-tech.com/

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Today, Zacharia Mashishi of Chief Ralekhudu Enterprise took centre stage at the Africa Health Collaborative exhibition. ...
08/09/2026

Today, Zacharia Mashishi of Chief Ralekhudu Enterprise took centre stage at the Africa Health Collaborative exhibition. 🌍

As the Congress continues, we’ve been reflecting on what it really means to create opportunities for young people. Sometimes, it starts with something as simple — and as powerful — as access.

Access to new rooms. New networks. New conversations. And the opportunity to stand in front of a global public health community and say: this is the problem I see, and this is what I’m building to address it.

That’s what we’ve had the privilege of watching our entrepreneurs do throughout .

Today was Zacharia’s turn, and we loved seeing him share his venture, his story and his vision with delegates from around the world. 💫

📍 One more day to visit the Africa Health Collaborative at Booth 22.

Day 2 at 🌍✨Today at the Africa Health Collaborative exhibition, we’re spotlighting Katlego Motlogelwa and connctd— a p...
07/09/2026

Day 2 at 🌍✨

Today at the Africa Health Collaborative exhibition, we’re spotlighting Katlego Motlogelwa and connctd— a platform designed to make support for wellness, personal growth and life goals more accessible through counselling, coaching, community and practical tools. (Connctd)

Our exhibition this week is also about creating space for young African entrepreneurs to be seen, heard and connected.

From the conversations at to the exhibition floor at WCPH, we’re putting the AHC youth agenda into practice by creating opportunities for young people to share the solutions they are building with a global public health community.

📍 At WCPH? Visit the Africa Health Collaborative at Booth 22 and meet our entrepreneurs.

Learn more: connctd.co.za

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What does meaningful youth participation look like in practice?At , we continued work on co-creating the with young p...
07/09/2026

What does meaningful youth participation look like in practice?

At , we continued work on co-creating the with young people's vision and priorities for health leadership, employment and innovation. University of Cape Town

Day 1 at ! 🌍✨Fresh off the heels of and a powerful day of conversations about the Africa Health Collaborative’s youth...
06/09/2026

Day 1 at ! 🌍✨

Fresh off the heels of and a powerful day of conversations about the Africa Health Collaborative’s youth agenda, today we got to see a piece of that agenda in action.

At the AHC exhibition, we were proud to feature Nomahlubi Nompunga and Nomahlubi Noziphiwo Nompunga, an alumni of our venture scale programme with The Bertha Centre. Nomahlubi showcased youth-led innovation and creating an opportunity for her to share her work with a global public health community.

Because centring young people means more than talking about youth. It means making room for their ideas, investing in their potential and creating platforms where they can build connections, access opportunities and demonstrate the solutions they are already creating.

We’re excited to spend the next few days introducing the WCPH community to more of the young people and ideas emerging through the Collaborative. 💫

📍 Find the Africa Health Collaborative at Booth 22 throughout .

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The Saldanha Bay learning circle on 18 August was filled with community membersand stakeholders who want to make a diffe...
19/08/2026

The Saldanha Bay learning circle on 18 August was filled with community members
and stakeholders who want to make a difference, smiles, dancing and live performances from local youth!

From representatives who gave us a breakdown of their educational offerings for Saldanha youth, to presentations on parenthood and awareness about "second-parent" programmes, where adults can become a safe space for vulnerable children by taking them in, the learning circle was highly informational

The session also encouraged community members to map solutions to local health concerns like substance abuse, as well as the need for skills development and third spaces, so they can implement these solutions and strengthen community-led action.

Earlier this year, we launched the Community Healthcare Worker Internship in Athlone at our Klipfontein site.This initia...
11/08/2026

Earlier this year, we launched the Community Healthcare Worker Internship in Athlone at our Klipfontein site.

This initiative is linked to the CHAMP (Community Health Action Mobile Platform) Community-Oriented Primary Care digitisation process.

Through the internship, young people are gaining exposure to:
• Community health work. 🙌
• Digital health implementation.🏥
• Household-level data collection. 🏠
• Practical realities of working within a COPC model.🫂

Each of our programmes is crafted to instil work-ready skills in our participants and prime them for employment in the health industry. Programmes like these make up the cornerstone of our founding Health Employment (H**P) pillar.

On 24 July, we launched the Women in Global Health Leadership Fellowship (WGHLF) Community of Practice (COP), which is a...
04/08/2026

On 24 July, we launched the Women in Global Health Leadership Fellowship (WGHLF) Community of Practice (COP), which is an enduring platform for Fellows to continue learning from one another, collaborate across disciplines and countries, and sustain the relationships and leadership cultivated throughout the programme.

COP is built on pillars of:
- Belonging 🫂
- Peer learning 🤝
- Knowledge exchange 💡
- Leadership and shared governance 📃

This makes it a space for WGHLF alumni to troubleshoot real-life leadership problems and advance collaborative research that informs policy changes to expand gender equity in the health industry.

We are excited to see what the Alumni create through the Community of Practice and how their work will shape the health industry and forge a new path for women in health leadership.

On 21 July 2026, HFSA convened the first Western Cape Government Rural Health Services-UCT HFSA Community-Oriented Prima...
03/08/2026

On 21 July 2026, HFSA convened the first Western Cape Government Rural Health Services-UCT HFSA Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) Workshop. The workshop created a dedicated space for districts to discuss implementation challenges, celebrate successes, and exchange practical lessons and best practices.

By bringing together colleagues from
- West Coast
- Cape Winelands
- Overberg
- Garden Route and Central Karoo. The workshop recognised the importance of strengthening rural health systems and ensuring that learning is shared across diverse implementation contexts.

The opportunity to openly discuss implementation challenges, learn from one another's experiences, and build relationships across districts reinforced the importance of creating regular spaces for collaborative learning as COPC continues to evolve across the province.

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