Address: 34 Essex Terrace, Westville, 3630, Durban,South Africa
Tel: +27 (0)31 266 9090
Our Vision
“Health systems supporting health for all in southern Africa.”
Our Mission
To contribute to building comprehensive, effective, efficient and equitable national health systems by supporting the implementation of functional health districts in South Africa and the southern African region.
Our Core Values
Our work is guided by the following key values:
Transparency and accountability
Innovation and responsiveness
Integrity and nurturance
Embracing diversity
Participatory management
Continuous Quality Improvement
Our Approach
We embrace a public health perspective with a focus on the primary health care approach.
We do health systems development through research and information dissemination that influences both policy and practice.
We improve quality of care in priority health programmes through facilitating supportive interventions and sharing ‘good practice’.
We advocate for equity, efficiency and effectiveness in health services and for the empowerment of the health service users.
We operate efficiently and effectively through utilising HST’s synergistic multi-disciplinary approach.
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