NAEP is a non-profit organisation that aims to publicise objective information about asthma diagnosis and treatment to health professionals and the South African public. NAEP is committed to helping families and communities get the asthma understanding that they need, and education medical professionals to better understand, diagnose and treat asthma.
Continue reading →Prader-Willi Syndrome Support SA is an organisation of families and professionals dedicated to working together to offer support, raise awareness, provide education and advocacy for people living with Prader-Willi Syndrome in South Africa.
Continue reading →Reach for Recovery is an international breast cancer support group. It is affiliated to the International Union Against Cancer (UICC). It is a non-medical programme designed to help women with breast cancer in their return to daily life.
In South Africa, Reach for Recovery (RFR) is an autonomous non-profit organisation run by volunteers since the late 1960s. Reach for Recovery is a breast cancer support organisation with a unique focus on breast cancer support and one of the only organisations that provide a patient support service on a national basis. It is built on a simple yet universal principle: that of one woman who has experienced breast cancer herself giving freely of her time and experience to assist and support another woman with breast cancer. Well-selected and trained volunteers, who each have experienced the breast cancer journey, render an emotional care and practical support programme to newly diagnosed breast cancer patients and their families. In some of the regions a prosthesis service is also provided and the focus is also on indigent women that cannot afford this service. This service is done at no charge to the patient and is available to all state patients who can present a hospital card. The organisation sustains itself through localised fundraising activities and some regular sponsorships that have been associated with RFR over a long period.
Continue reading →Doctors For Life International (DFL) is a non-profit company that was founded and established in South Africa in 1991. The organisation began in response to an increasing need for intervention to preserve Judaeo-Christian ethics and sound science within the medical profession and, in particular, protect the sanctity of life from fertilisation until natural death.
Medical professionals experience first-hand the devastating effects of societal harms such as abortions, drug misuse, suicide, sexually transmitted diseases, domestic violence and sexual assault. DFL is an organisation through which medical professionals and the broader community are able to unite as one voice and intervene in these matters. Since DFL first opposed the legalisation of abortion in South Africa in 1991 other ethical issues have been challenged including euthanasia, pornography, sexual exploitation, substance abuse and the role of alternative medicine.
Continue reading →The Council for Medical Schemes is a statutory body established by the Medical Schemes Act (131 of 1998) to provide regulatory supervision of private health financing through medical schemes
Continue reading →The Critical Care Society of South Africa (CCSA) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to delivering appropriate, quality care to the critically ill.
Founded in 1970, the CCSA represents doctors, nurses and allied health practitioners working in the field of critical care medicine. The CCSA provides professional development; research; guidelines; protocols; accreditation; training; conferences and seminars to its members.
The CCSSA is administered by volunteers from the professional community.
Continue reading →ASAIPA represents 14 IPA’s throughout South Africconsisting of more or less 1120 independent General/Family practitioners and Primary Care Providers in individual and/or group practice. ASAIPA is one of the largest consumer branded networks of primary care practitioners in South Africwhich has a national footprint in every province throughout South Africa.
Continue reading →The Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa (AHPCSA) is a statutory health body established in terms of the Allied Health Professions Act, 63 of 1982 (the Act) in order to control all allied health professions, which includes AyurvedChinese Medicine and Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Homeopathy, Naturopathy, Osteopathy, Phytotherapy, Therapeutic Aromatherapy, Therapeutic Massage Therapy, Therapeutic Reflexology and Unani-Tibb.
AHPCSA is a statutory, SAQA-recognised professional body.
They have twelve professional designations:
Founded in 1970 The SA Haemophilia Foundation is a national non-profit organisation and a member of the World Federation of Hemophilia that assists in treatment, education, advocacy and research for the bleeding disorders community.
Continue reading →The Biokinetics Association represents the body drives the Passion for the profession of biokinetics – executed with Integrity, Trustworthiness, Transparency, Respect and Consistency
The Biokinetics Association of South Africa (BASA) is a professional body registered as a Section 21 company (Non Profit Organisation) representing approximately 1100 practitioners in South Africa. The Biokinetics Association is the official body for Biokinetics.