Read More: How South Africa Is Tackling Its AIDS Crisis, One Test at a Time Inside, there are four consulting rooms, reception and waiting areas, and an air conditioned room for storing medication. Her clinic is made of two 12-meter shipping containers that have been fitted with wall panelling and flooring. Yeko joined the Unjani Clinic network and started her own clinic in a township of Johannesburg called Orange Farm on June 15, 2015. "But mostly, at the end of my five-year enterprise development agreement with, I get to own a moveable asset - being my container clinic," Yeko, who lives in Johannesburg, told Global Citizen by email. They are manufactured, retrofitted, and then transported to the community. They use shipping containers because they are easy to deploy, Yeko explained. Take Action: Be the Generation to End Extreme Poverty Donors donate clinics that are made out of shipping containers to the nurses, which allows them to deliver health services within their communities. Unjani Clinic is a social franchise that helps nurses across the country become entrepreneurs.
This paints a pretty bleak picture of health care in South Africa, but nurses like Cynthia Gcinile Yeko are working hard to help change it. It’s a system that focuses heavily on curing conditions, rather than preventing them - which is a serious problem in a country where there were 270,000 new HIV infections in 2016 and most people don’t have health insurance. More than 80% of South Africa’s population relies on an overcrowded public health system with too many patients and too few staff. In it, aid workers, health and education professionals, gender equality activists, scientists, and other individuals making a difference on the ground tell their stories and provide an in-depth look at how to address some of the world's greatest challenges. " On the Frontlines" is a new series that brings Global Citizens to the frontlines of the work your actions support around the world.
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