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Since 1995, we’ve been increasing access to quality health services for families.

  • More than 260,000 individuals have learned their HIV status through Jhpiego-supported HIV testing services.
  • Jhpiego technical support helped build the capacity of master trainers and providers of voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) services in provincial health departments—resulting in more than 400,000 men and boys receiving VMMC services.
  • Advocacy for nurse-led antiretroviral services contributed to the South African government’s approval for nurses and midwives to have authority to prescribe antiretroviral drugs for people living with HIV.
  • Technical support to VMMC programs in two districts in KwaZulu resulted in identification of 712 (2%) index clients—individuals newly diagnosed as HIV-positive and/or an HIV-positive individual who is enrolled in HIV treatment services—out of 35,449 men tested for HIV. Of the 712 clients identified, 670 (94%) accepted assisted partner notification services, with 167 (25%) of partners newly diagnosed.

Our Technical Areas in South Africa

Our Work in South Africa

Provision of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention in South Africa under the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief

With funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Jhpiego is working with the Government of South Africa to provide voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) services in six districts in KwaZulu-Natal province as well as the City of Cape Town. The objectives of this project are to:

  • Support the Government of South Africa in ensuring provision of high-quality, high-volume, cost-efficient VMMC services to males aged 15–34 through implementation of innovative demand creation strategies.
  • Ensure that VMMC services are integrated and implemented as a package of comprehensive HIV prevention, care and treatment services.
  • Coordinate forecasting, procurement, quality assurance, distribution and storage of VMMC surgical kits and commodities.
  • Support transition of direct VMMC service delivery to the national Department of Health facilities.
Enhancing Global Health Security: Expanding Efforts and Strategies to Protect and Improve Public Health Globally

Funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this five-year project builds upon activities funded by CDC to support Global Health Security through implementation of programs and activities that focus on protecting and improving health globally through partnerships with Ministries of Health and other institutions. With an initial emphasis on addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, the project is supporting countries—including South Africa—and carrying out regional work in West Africa and South America to improve prevention of avoidable epidemics, including naturally occurring outbreaks and intentional or accidental releases of dangerous pathogens, and to improve ability to detect threats early and respond rapidly and effectively to public health threats of international concern. The project is being implemented by a Jhpiego-led consortium that includes the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Global Scientific Solutions for Health, and Johns Hopkins University Center for Global Health.

Adolescent and Young People (AYP) Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH)/HIV Integration

In 2023, Jhpiego supported the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria’s Adolescent Girls and Young Women Strategic Initiative in five countries (South Africa, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Kenya) to address HIV prevention and SRH unmet needs of adolescent girls and young women. Building on achievements and momentum of that project, Jhpiego is self-funding specific AYP SRH/HIV service integration efforts within three of the five initial countries (South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe). There is a globally recognized need for stronger integration across historically siloed technical areas—in this case, SRH and HIV services for AYP—and work under this new initiative will address this need by:

  • Ensuring availability of tools for project/government use to assess, design, measure and/or evaluate the presence and/or quality of AYH SRH/HIV integrated health services.
  • Identifying, documenting and disseminating best practices in AYP SRH/HIV integration.
  • Advancing understanding of and practice of monitoring and evaluation of AYP SRH/HIV integration.
  • Strengthening youth engagement within SRH/HIV integration structures and developing guidance/tools to support.

The people we serve

Three Principles to Provide HIV/SRH Services for Young People

Adolescents and HIV epidemic control Despite years of advocacy and a growing evidence base to reduce vertical programming, progress on integrating services remains limited and, in many countries, HIV prevention and family planning (FP) continue to be offered as isolated services with limited options. Providing individual services in isolation places an unnecessary burden on clients

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Bringing COVID-19 Vaccinations to South Africa’s Most Vulnerable Communities

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Nurse Nozipho Magubane wipes down plastic chairs and sets them up in a bright corridor at Makhaza Mall. She is preparing to open the Jhpiego-supported pop-up COVID-19 vaccination site in Khayelitsha, a poor neighborhood that is one of the least-vaccinated areas in Cape Town. Though the setting looks different from

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Vax mobile in South Africa

Meet Manthomeng Matete

Meet Manthomeng Matete, who coordinates the Community and Universal Testing for TB among Contacts (CUT-TB) study in Lesotho. A three-country study, CUT-TB is evaluating new contact tracing strategies with the ultimate aim of improving case detection. Jhpiego leads the study in Lesotho in partnership with The Aurum Institute. What problems is study hoping to solve?

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Women in a waiting room

Preventing HIV amid the Pandemic

Cape Town, South Africa – Nurse Nomajama Nomnganga dons the gloves and apron she’ll wear during the first circumcision surgery of the day. On the other side of the surgical bed, Nokuzola Dyonase, also a professional nurse trained to do minor surgery, arranges sterile forceps, needles and gauze. For this pair of nurses at Jhpiego’s

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HIV Awareness

Jhpiego Delivers Hope, Safeguards Health in South Africa During Pandemic

Jhpiego mobilizer Lindokuhle Hlongwane and his team pull their Kombi van to a stop on the road just outside a client’s home in Rockdale, a village in uThukela District in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa, to drop off medication. Being careful to maintain a social distance, Lindokuhle gives his client, who is living with HIV, her refill of

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Nurse in South Africa

U.S., South African Nurses Partner at New Hospital

Read about the nursing exchange program between the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the new Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital.

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Newborn girl wearing a sweater and cap being held in a woman's arms.

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Mehebub Mohamed, Country Director

Tel. 27 31 563 0819

15 Ennisdale Drive

Durban North, South Africa 4051

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