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“The Return of the Pholela Experiment: Medical History and Primary Health Care in Post-Apartheid South Africa,” American Journal of Public Health , Howard Phillips, October 2014

The Pholela Health Center in Natal, South Africa took a broad view of health care that included medical treatment and action to reduce the effects of poverty. The radical transformation promised by the Pholela Health Center took nearly 50 years to come to fruition in South Africa.