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SACENDU Project Background
SACENDU was established in 1996 and is a network of researchers, practitioners, and policy makers from various sentinel areas in South Africa. Up until June 2006, these sites comprised of Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth (PE), East London (EL), Gauteng Province and Mpumalanga Province (MP). As some sites were beginning to also include data from other towns/cities (e.g.Durban included data from Pietermaritzburg and East London included data from SANCA (South African National Council on Alcoholism) satellite offices in Butterworth, Grahamstown, Fort Beaufort, and King Williams Town), it was decided to begin to report data by province. From the second half of 2006, data were also collected from treatment centres in the Free State, Northern Cape and North-West. Given the limited number of centres in these Provinces, these three provinces have been combined into a regional group termed the “Central Region.” In the Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces, the same problem exists, and it was decided to combine this data and we now refer to these two provinces as the Northern Region.
The SACENDU Project initiative has several specific objectives:
- To identify changes in the nature and extent of AOD (Alcohol and Other Drug) abuse and emerging problems.
- To identify changes in alcohol and other drug-related negative consequences.
- To inform policy, planning and advocacy efforts at local and other levels.
- To support networks of local role players in the substance abuse area.
- To stimulate research in new or under-researched areas that is likely to provide useful data to inform policy/planning decisions.
- To facilitate South Africa’s full participation in international fora focusing on the epidemiological surveillance of drug abuse.
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Agendas
- 23 March 2026 – KwaZulu‑Natal (KZN)
- 24 March 2026 – Gauteng (GT)
- 25 March 2026 – Eastern Cape (EC)
- 26 March 2026 – Northern Region (NR)
- 27 March 2026 – Western Cape (WC)
- 30 March 2026 – Central Region (CR)
- SACENDU update (January - June 2025)
- SACENDU update (July - December 2024)
- SACENDU update (January - June 2024)
- SACENDU update (July- December 2023)
- SACENDU update (January - June 2023)
- SACENDU update (July - December 2022)
- SACENDU update (January- June 2022)
- SACENDU update (July - December 2021)
- SACENDU update (January - June 2021)
- SACENDU update (July – December 2020)
- SACENDU update (January - June 2020)
- SACENDU update (July-December 2019)
- SACENDU update (January - June 2019)
- SACENDU brief (January - June 2025)
- SACENDU brief (July - December 2024)
- SACENDU brief (January - June 2024)
- SACENDU brief (July- December 2023)
- SACENDU brief (January - June 2023)
- SACENDU brief (July - December 2022)
- SACENDU brief (January - June 2022)
- SACENDU brief (July- December 2021)
- SACENDU brief (January - June 2021)
- SACENDU brief (July – December 2020)
- SACENDU Brief (January - June 2020)
- SACENDU Brief (July - December 2019)
- SACENDU Brief (January - June 2019)
- Full report (Vol 26) - January - December 2024
- Full report (Vol 26) - January - December 2023
- Full report Vol 25(2) - January - December 2022
- Full report proceedings (July - December 2021) (Phase 51)
- Full report proceedings (January - June 2021) (Phase 50)
- Full report proceedings (July- December 2020) (Phase 49)
- Full report proceedings (January - June 2020) (Phase 48)
- Full report proceedings (July- December 2019) (Phase 47)
- Full report proceedings (January - June 2019) (Phase 46)
Eastern Cape
- Ms Jodilee Erasmus - SACENDU Eastern Cape treatment demand data
- Ms Jodilee Erasmus - NICRO Eastern Cape
- Ms Phumzile Mchunu - SACENDU update on community-based harm reduction services in Eastern Cape
- Ms Shaheema Allie - Web App ASSIST: substance use screening data from South Africa
Gauteng
- Ms Nancy Hornsby - SACENDU Gauteng treatment demand data
- Ms Nancy Hornsby - NICRO Gauteng data
- Ms Phumzile Mngomezulu - SACENDU update on community-based harm reduction services in Gauteng
- Prof Goodman Sibeko - Web App ASSIST: substance use screening data from South Africa
- Lt Col Botha - DPCI: SOCI: SANEB annual threat picture
Northern Region
- Ms Nancy Hornsby - SACENDU Northern region treatment demand data
- Ms Nancy Hornsby - NICRO Northern region data
- Ms Philasande Madosi - SACENDU update on community-based harm reduction services in Northern region
- Ms Shaheema Allie - Web App ASSIST: substance use screening data from South Africa
- Dr Greg Rosen - Adapting and tailoring substance use service delivery features for female sex workers living with HIV: insights from implementation research in Ehlanzeni and eThekwini Districts
KwaZulu Natal
- Ms Jodilee Erasmus - SACENDU KwaZulu Natal treatment demand data
- Ms Jodilee Erasmus - NICRO KwaZulu Natal data
- Ms Ayanda Nyathi - SACENDU update on community-based harm reduction services in KwaZulu Natal
- Prof Goodman Sibeko - Web App ASSIST: substance use screening data from South Africa
- Dr Greg Rosen - Adapting and tailoring substance use service delivery features for female sex workers living with HIV: insights from implementation research in Ehlanzeni and eThekwini Districts
Central Region
- Ms Nancy Hornsby - SACENDU Central region treatment demand data
- Ms Shaheema Allie - Web App ASSIST: substance use screening data from South Africa
Western Cape
- Ms Jodilee Erasmus - SACENDU Western Cape treatment demand data
- Ms Jodilee Erasmus - NICRO Western Cape data
- Ms Bronwyn Gantana - SACENDU update on community-based harm reduction services in Western Cape
- Prof Goodman Sibeko - Web App ASSIST: substance use screening data from South Africa
- Harker, N. et al. (2026) 'From courtroom to clinic: How legal rulings shape cannabis use among adolescents and young adults in South Africa,' International Journal of Drug Policy, 149, p. 105151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2026.105151
- Harker, N., & Sibeko, G. (2025). Navigating public health priorities: Substance use research in a constrained funding environment. South African Journal of Science, 121(5/6). https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2025/21942
Hosted by the SACENDU Research Uptake and Evidence-Based Information Sharing Platform
Session 1 - 30 August 2024
- What are the implications of substance use on both familial dynamics and community well-being?
- What strategies can a family employ to cope with the challenges of supporting a person who uses drugs (PWUD) or struggles with alcohol?
Presentations
- Ripple Effects -The impact of substance abuse on families and communities
- The Family and Substance Use Disorders
Video
Session 2 - 6 September 2024
- What measures do substance treatment centers implement to address familial burnout?
Presentations
- 2021 Membership Survey Results
- Engaging Families & Significant Others
- THE MATRIX MODEL FAMILY PROGRAMME
Video
Session 3 - 13 September 2024
To what extent does familial support facilitate substance use recovery
Presentation
To what extent does familial support facilitate substance use recovery
Video
Session 4 - 20 September 2024
- Strategies that healthcare professionals employ to address burnout resulting from providing care to individuals with substance use disorders
Presentation
Video
- Substance Treatment Services Directory - University of Cape Town
- The Web App Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST)
Information regarding data analyses & recruitment of new treatment centres
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