With funding from USAID, CCI is working with the National Department of Health, Provincial Departments of Health and other partners to implement Risk Communication and Community Engagement in all nine Provinces of South Africa. Specifically, CCI is mandated to support the following RCCE competencies. Risk Communication Systems: Support the South African Government to engage with
CCI supports the Department of Basic Education with the vaccination roll-out campaign The Department of Basic Education will, today, begin vaccinating teachers and non-teaching staff in all public and private sector. The DBE sector was allocated 300,000 doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccines that arrived in the country last week. On Friday, 18 June
CCI is not only leading in vaccination communication, the CEO, Ms Claudia Shilumani and executive members are leading by example for taking their COVID-19 vaccination as part of the Sisonke’s extended healthcare worker vaccination programme recently. She was joined by two members of the Executive Management Team, Sakumzi Ntayiya and Mogale Mashiapata, they received the jab
Obesity is recognised as both a disease in its own right and a condition that increases the likelihood of developing a wide range of non-communicable diseases. Less well-known is the fact that obesity also increases the likelihood that infectious diseases will lead to serious consequences. This is most clearly apparent in the global spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the resulting pandemic of COVID-19.
Eliya Kgatla put his life at risk for the people of Soweto by giving out food stamps to the needy during the national Lockdown, all it takes is more than an ordinary sense of duty to be an essential services worker in a country paralysed by a pandemic . Read about Eliya’s heroic ways on
