With respect to improving health outcomes, the national Department of
Health with the Free State Provincial Health department will drive a service delivery orientated campaign in identified poor communities in
Free State, from 15 to 19 February 2010.
The week long campaign focusing on Free State province is in line with strengthening the capacity of health systems and mainly improving sexual and reproductive health in the province.
Between the 15 and 18 February, the two departments will stage special health care services coupled with health care education in areas such as Welkom, Bloemfontein and Xhariep Districts. Tertiary institutions and technical colleges within Bloemfontein will also be visited. The overall campaign will be done through mobile health care units with health care workers offering health care services mainly relating to sexual and reproductive health.
The campaign will then culminate with a massive community interaction activity scheduled in Smithfield, outside Bloemfontein, on 19
February 2010. The community activity will be led by the Free State MEC for Health, Ms SE Mabe.
The sexual and reproductive health campaign, annually staged during
February month, commemorates World Cancer Day, Sexual Transmitted
Infections (STI); Condom Week; Pregnancy Education Week and Contraceptives Day.
The campaign strives to contribute towards achieving health related
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) relating to the projected 50 percent reduction of child, maternal, female and HIV and AIDS mortality rate by year 2011.
The media is therefore invited to be part of the main campaign activity to be held as follows:
Event Name: Sexual and reproductive health campaign
Date: 19 February 2010
Venue: Thembalethu (Smithfield) Clinic (160 km outside Bloemfontein)
Time: 10h00 to 16h00
For more information, kindly contact:
Elke de Witt
Cell: 083 561 6517
Vukani Mnyandu
Tel: 012 312 0486
Cell: 083 923 0261
Issued by: Department of Health, Free State Provincial Government
15 February 2010
