Program Nompilo
Program Nompilo
Community Health Workers / Health Promotion Officer Qualification
Program Nompilo is a healthcare industry initiative to upskill youth through community health worker training. It is a way to bridge the gap between public and private healthcare services by doing health promotion.
Consider this?
- Will you be commercially viable in the current and future healthcare environment?
- Have you found a way to support the DoH’s (Department of Health) health priorities and remain commercially viable at the same time?
- Are you actively involved with access to healthcare for all?
- Are you ready for NHI and do you have a clear NHI strategy?
- Do fully utilize the Y.E.S (Youth Employment Service) initiative to the benefit of your company’s transformation processes?
Suggested Solution: Support and facilitate community health worker training by partnering with Diverse Conversations.
Community health workers are the core delivery mechanism that delivers primary healthcare services to otherwise under-serviced communities. Get involved in a public/ private partnership to support universal healthcare for all.
Course Features

Animated Videos

Interactive Elements

Mentor Videos

Test-yourself Quizzes

Assesments
'Patient access to healthcare and universal healthcare for all is your business and my business! This way we co-create an equitable world.'
Reinet van Graan OerlemansFounder and CEO of Diverse Conversations

Knowledge Modules

Practical Modules

Workplace experience Modules
The outcome of Program Nompilo is that communities are increasingly empowered and informed in non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, stroke, COPD, and mental illness as well as communicable diseases such as HIV, TB, malaria, cholera, and typhoid.
By completing the knowledge modules on public and community health support, family and community services as well as the basics of community health, graduates are able to motivate patients to attend primary healthcare clinics and improve adherence to medication.
By completing the knowledge modules on public and community health support, family and community services as well as the basics of community health, graduates are able to motivate patients to attend primary healthcare clinics and improve adherence to medication.
The practical modules include tracking and tracing patients to adhere to medication, promoting testing for HIV and the safe use and adherence of ARVs and TB medication, promote a healthy lifestyle and deal with treatment processes of minor ailments.
In addition, graduates are able to mobilize communities to provide an integrated approach to support treatment and patient access to healthcare.
In addition, graduates are able to mobilize communities to provide an integrated approach to support treatment and patient access to healthcare.
We facilitate workplace experience and subsequent employment of community health workers through public / private partnerships with NGO’s, Foundations as well as private and public primary healthcare clinics.
Workplace experiences include the following:
- Profiling community wards
- Participating in community meetings
- Conducting registration and assessment of households
- Leading health education discussions and adherence to medication
- Refer patients for treatment to appropriate treatment centers
- Administer basic preventative and treatment preparations