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KaziBantu: Healthy Schools for Healthy Communities (School-based health intervention program: Scaling-up, dissemination and effects on children and teachers and workplaces in disadvantaged neighbourhoods in South Africa)

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01.06.2017
 - 31.08.2020

The KaziBantu project is a specially tailored school-based intervention programme aimed at consolidating the practice of physical education and ensuring the physical literacy and healthy active living of school children and teachers. The KaziBantu Project ( Kazi - active, Bantu - people: KaziBantu - Active People) is dedicated to creating long-lasting positive changes in health, and to providing opportunities for physical activity, by implementing a multi-faceted approach to address the health problems faced within disadvantaged settings in low- and middle-income countries. This will be achieved through two programmes: KaziKidz and KaziHealth. The KaziBantu project is sponsored by the Novartis Foundation which is a philanthropic organization and strives to have sustainable impact on the health of low-income communities through a combination of programmatic work, health outcomes research, and its translation into policy to tackle global health challenges. The Novartis Foundation, Nelson Mandela University, University of Basel and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute have expanded the DASH program into the Healthy Schools for Healthy Communities initiative, which is called " KaziBantu " in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Dr. Ann Aerts is the head of the Novartis Foundation.

Funding

DASH II - 'Healthy Schools for Healthy Communities'

Foundations / Associations (GrantsTool), 07.2017-06.2018 (12)
PI : Pühse, Uwe.
CI : Gerber, Markus,Utzinger, Jürg,du Randt, Rosa,van Greunen, Darelle.

Publications

Müller, Ivan et al. (2019) ‘Effects of a school-based health intervention program in marginalized communities of Port Elizabeth, South Africa (the KaziBantu Study): protocol for a randomized controlled trial’, JMIR Research Protocols, 8(7), p. e14097. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2196/14097.

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Members (16)

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Uwe Pühse

Principal Investigator
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Cheryl Walter

Principal Investigator
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Markus Gerber

Co-Investigator
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Ivan Müller

Co-Investigator
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Christian Schindler

Co-Investigator
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Harald Seelig

Co-Investigator
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