Health Systems Trust (HST) is a dynamic not-for-profit organisation supporting the transformation of the health system in South Africa. Subscribing to a primary health care approach, HST actively supports current and future development of a comprehensive health system, through strategies designed to promote equity and efficiency in health and health care delivery in southern Africa.

Recently I was alerted on the website "They go to die" featuring a film documentary on the phenomenon that gold miners in South Africa contract diseases (especially HIV TB co-infection) at their workplace. When a worker becomes sick at the mine, their illness deems them "unfit for work" and subsequently they are sent home to the rural areas. Since these areas often have little or no access to medication/care, this process is termed, “sending them home to die” I was taken by this project for two reasons.

The results of the 2011 report on HIV/AIDS services provision in the City of Tshwane were presented in an oral presentation at the 6th SAHARA conference held from 28 November – 2 December 2011 in Port Elizabeth, as well as in a Poster at the 7th PHASA conference held from 28 – 30 November 2011in Sandton.

On 23 February 2012 Health Systems Trust (HST) launched the District Health Barometer (DHB) 2010/11. The DHB is a tool through which managers in the health sector can monitor and evaluate not only trends in health status and service delivery but also the underlying quality of routinely collected health information in South Africa.