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.
- 18 March 2024 – Eastern Cape
- 19 March 2024 - KZN
- 20 Mach 2024 – Western Cape
- 26 March 2024 – Central Region
- 27 March 2024 – Northern Region
- 28 March 2024 - Gauteng
- 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 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 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
- Community-based harm reduction services: Eastern Cape - Phumzile Mchunu
- EASTERN CAPE TREATMENT DATA - JODILEE ERASMUS
- IMPACT OF THE COVID 19 ALCOHOL RESTRICTIONS ON PATTERNS OF ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AND ACCESS TO ALCOHOL AMONG ADULT MEN WITH ALCOHOL USE DISORDERS (AUD): FINDINGS FROM THREE REGIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA - Nadine Harker, Phillip Ayieko & Neo Morojele
- Implications for community health worker programs in South Africa - Professor Mark Tomlinson
- Maximizing Drug Epidemiology Networks: South African Case Study - Prof Nadine Harker
- SACENDU – a 28 year journey - Charles Parry
Gauteng
- Linking old age loneliness to substance abuse: A Reflexive Approach - FAITH SIBIYA AND DR MABILA MATHEBULA
- Implications for community health worker programs in South Africa - Professor Mark Tomlinson
- WHEN ADDICTION DEFEATS REASON: THE CASE OF WOMEN WHO USE NYAOPE DURING PREGNANCY -
Kebogile Mokwena - Preliminary Results SACENDU workshops - Bongani Sibande
- SACENDU – a 28 year journey - Charles Parry
- Community-based harm reduction services: Gauteng - Tendai Makina
- Forging Shields to Protect Against Childhood Substance Use - Prof Marelize Schoeman
- GAUTENG SYMPOSIUM: TREATMENT DEMAND DATA - Ms Jodilee Erasmus & Ms Nancy Hornsby
Western Cape
- Community-based harm reduction services: Western Cape - Rampati Sylvia Makgopa
- SACENDU – a 28 year journey - Charles Parry
- WESTERN CAPE TREATMENT DATA - JODILEE ERASMUS
Northern Region
- Community-based harm reduction services: Mpumalanga - Philasande Madosi
- Implications for community health worker programs in South Africa - Professor Mark Tomlinson
- NORTHERN REGION SYMPOSIUM: TREATMENT DEMAND DATA - Prof Nadine Harker & Ms Nancy Hornsby
- Preliminary Results SACENDU workshops - Bongani Sibande
- SACENDU – a 28 year journey - Charles Parry
- Social workers’ perspectives on barriers to substance abuse treatment for women in Limpopo province - Baloyi D.E
KwaZulu Natal
- Community-based harm reduction services: KwaZulu Natal - Ayanda Nyathi
- Implications for community health worker programs in South Africa - Professor Mark Tomlinson
- Preliminary results - SACENDU Symposium
- SACENDU – a 28 year journey - Charles Parry
- KWAZULU NATAL TREATMENT DATA - JODILEE ERASMUS
Central Region
- Burden of Addictive Disorders in South Africa – A Public Health Concern - Nadine Harker
- CENTRAL REGION SYMPOSIUM: TREATMENT DEMAND DATA - Prof Nadine Harker & Ms Nancy Hornsby
- Substance abuse among high school learners in a rural Education District, Free State Province, South Africa - Setshego NJ & Mokwena K
- Forging Shields to Protect Against Childhood Substance Use - Prof Marelize Schoeman
- Maximizing Drug Epidemiology Networks: South African Case Study - Prof Nadine Harker
- SACENDU – a 28 year journey - Charles Parry
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