Iondeka Mthethwa

University students partner with South African caregivers

While many University students spent the summer break toiling away in an internship — often unpaid — one group of students and faculty members spent their summer nearly thousands of miles away helping to improve the health care system of two communities in South Africa. A group of medical, nursing and public policy students and faculty members worked to educate home-based caregivers of two clinics in Thohoyandou and Tiyani, South Africa on different methods of treating prevalent chronic disease such as diabetes and high blood pressure.