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SACENDU Privacy Statement

 “The South African Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use (SACENDU), a project of the Mental Health, Alcohol, Substance Use and Tobacco Research Unit (MAST-RU), upholds the right to privacy, confidentiality and protection of personal information as enshrined in the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (POPIA). SACENDU will take all reasonable precautions by deidentifying any information that may be deemed as ‘personal information’. Personal information will be processed in a manner that adheres to the 8 POPIA conditions: (1) Accountability; (2) Processing limitation; (3) Purpose specification; (4) Further processing limitation; (5) Information quality; (6) Openness; (7) Security safeguards; (8) Data subject participation. By entering into a collaboration agreement with SACENDU, all partners (internal and/or external) commit to upholding these POPIA conditions at all times during the partnership. SACENDU does not take responsibility for POPIA violations where activities by partners do not fall under the remit of the collaboration. Where the violations are directly related to the collaboration, SACENDU, together with the partner, will take all necessary measures to rectify such violations.”

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:

  1. To identify changes in the nature and extent of AOD (Alcohol and Other Drug) abuse and emerging problems.
  2. To identify changes in alcohol and other drug-related negative consequences.
  3. To inform policy, planning and advocacy efforts at local and other levels.
  4. To support networks of local role players in the substance abuse area.
  5. To stimulate research in new or under-researched areas that is likely to provide useful data to inform policy/planning decisions.
  6. To facilitate South Africa’s full participation in international fora focusing on the epidemiological surveillance of drug abuse.
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57th SACENDU in-person Symposia 2025

SACENDU Symposium 2025

Eastern Cape

  1. Ms Jodilee Erasmus - SACENDU Eastern Cape treatment demand data
  2. Ms Phumzile Mchunu -SACENDU update on community-based harm reduction services in Eastern Cape
  3. Ms Jodilee Erasmus - Service Quality Measures (SQM): a performance measurement system for substance use service providers in SA
  4. Prof Veonna Goliath - Community-based response to substance abuse: The Hope Revolution Model in higher education context
  5. Prof Nadine Harker & Ms Nancy Hornsby - From courtroom to clinic: how legal rulings shape cannabis use among ddolescents and young adults in South Africa

Gauteng

  1. Ms Nancy Hornsby - SACENDU Gauteng treatment demand data
  2. Ms Phumzile Mngomezulu - SACENDU update on community-based harm reduction services in Gauteng
  3. Dr Siphesihle Mahanjana - Mapping intervention strategies and patient journeys in addressing mental health challenges among healthcare workers
  4. Ms Kim Johnson - Service Quality Measures (SQM): a performance measurement system for substance use service providers in SA
  5. Lt Col Botha and Col Krein- DPCI: SOCI: SANEB annual threat picture
  6. Dr Naeem Cassim - A chemsex study in South Africa among men who have sex with men (MSM)

Northern Region

  1. Ms Nancy Hornsby - SACENDU Northern region treatment demand data
  2. Ms Philasande Madosi - SACENDU update on community-based harm reduction services in Northern Region
  3. Ms Kim Johnson - Service Quality Measures (SQM): A performance measurement system for substance use service providers in SA
  4. Dr Linda shuro - Trends in socio-demographic characteristics and substance use among high school learners in selected district in Limpopo
  5. Prof Nadine Harker & Ms Nancy Hornsby - From courtroom to clinic: how legal rulings shape cannabis use among adolescents and young adults in South Africa

KwaZulu Natal

Central Region

  1. Ms Nancy Hornsby - SACENDU CR treatment demand data
  2. Ms Kim Johnson - Service Quality Measures (SQM): a performance measurement system for substance use service providers in SA
  3. Ms Boniswa Letabe - Harm reduction advancements in Lejweleputswa district, Free State
  4. Prof Willem Roestenburg - The influence of alcohol and drug use on family well-being in the Northern Cape
  5. Dr Eldene Braaf - An aftercare intervention programme for employees returning from substance use rehabilitation in South Africa

Western Cape

  1. Ms Jodilee Erasmus - SACENDU WC treatment demand data
  2. Ms Memory Mahaso - SACENDU Update on community-based harm reduction services in Cape Town
  3. Dr Kamogelo Senyatsi - High burden of poor psychosocial well-being identified in problematic alcohol users from Cape Town
  4. Ms Siphesihle Gwambe - Electronic cigarette and hookah use among university students in South Africa: risk influences, health effects and financial implications
  5. Ms Jodilee Erasmus - Community perceptions of South African Police service responses to substance use and the impacts on health and well-being of community leaders and substance users in a peri- urban community in Cape Town
  6. Prof Nadine Harker & Ms Nancy Hornsby - From courtroom to clinic: how legal rulings shape cannabis use among adolescents and young adults in South Africa

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

Video

Session 2 - 6 September 2024

  •  What measures do substance treatment centers implement to address familial burnout?

Presentations

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

Strategies that healthcare professionals employ to address burnout resulting from providing care to individuals with substance use disorders

Video

 

Contact us for:

Information regarding data analyses & recruitment of new treatment centres

Kholiswa Dube
General Information
Kholiswa Dube
  • kholiswa.dube@mrc.ac.za

Bi-annual meetings, reports, presentations, updates, regional data representations, treatment data collection forms or becoming part of the SACENDU network

Nancy Hornsby
Treatment Demand Data Manager (Specialist)
Nancy Hornsby
  • nancy.hornsby@mrc.ac.za
Jodilee Erasmus
Treatment Demand Data (Specialist)
Jodilee Erasmus
  • jodilee.erasmus@mrc.ac.za
Mompati Moletsane
New Centre Recruitment
Mompati Moletsane
  • kamogelo.moletsane@mrc.ac.za
Kim Johnson
Service Quality Measures Manager
Kim Johnson
  • kim.johnson@mrc.ac.za

For any queries, comments or concerns related to SACENDU

Nadine Harker
Principal Investigator
Nadine Harker
  • Nadine.harker@mrc.ac.za