This paper presents a case for factoring in gender perspectives in initiatives intended to strengthen informal rural healthcare delivery systems by way of improved access with a view to entrenching rural livelihoods. Given that increasingly, the informal health sector is shouldering the healthcare delivery service burden, it is important to strengthen informal healthcare services - and one way of doing that is to improve informal healthcare practitioners' access to homesteads [where their patients live] and health facilities. This can be done by providing adequate transportation infrastructure and services as well as communication in rural communities. Keywords: Rural access roads, Transportation infrastructure, Home-based care, Informal healthcare, Health delivery systems, SATC.