Giving Compass' Take:

• A health clinic made from a shipping container? That's what's going on in parts of South Africa, where preventative health care is in short supply and space is limited, as Global Citizen reports.

• The collaboration between the Unjani Clinic and local South African nurses is one that should serve as a good example of innovation in a sector that too often relies on old, outdated methods.

• Here's how forward-thinking partnerships can help bring health care to all in Africa. 

More than 80% of South Africa’s population relies on an overcrowded public health system with too many patients and too few staff.

It’s a system that focuses heavily on curing conditions, rather than preventing them — which is a serious problem in a country where there were 270,000 new HIV infections in 2016 and most people don’t have health insurance.

This paints a pretty bleak picture of health care in South Africa, but nurses like Cynthia Gcinile Yeko are working hard to help change it.

Unjani Clinic is a social franchise that helps nurses across the country become entrepreneurs. Donors donate clinics that are made out of shipping containers to the nurses, which allows them to deliver health services within their communities.

Read the full article about accessible health care via shipping containers in South Africa by Jackie Marchildon at Global Citizen.