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Report: South African Health Review

Health, Health Systems

The annual Health Systems Trust publication focuses heavily on changes in primary health care as part of the country's move towards National Health Insurance and the revitalisation of primary health care.

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October 20, 2015

Report: District Health Barometer 2014/15

Health, Health Systems

The annual publication by the Health Systems Trust charts the lowest mother-to-child HIV transmission rate yet as the percentage of babies born to women living with HIV who test positive for the virus at about six weeks falls to 1.5 percent.

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October 20, 2015

Report: Department of Health Annual Report 2014/15

Health, Health Systems

The 227-page report highlights a number of achievements for the department, including progress on the implementation of the National Health Insurance.

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October 20, 2015

North West kidney recipient takes bronze at international games

Our Health

Lebohang Moabeng was diagnosed with kidney failure at the age of 17. Now, six years after a kidney transplant saved his life, he earned South Africa a bronze medal at the recent World Transplant Games.

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October 20, 2015

According to the head of Steve Biko Academic Hospital Cardiology Department Andrew Sarkin, neither public nor private sector patients benefit from the country's current two-tiered health system (File photo)

Council refuses to register plastic surgeon after 8 years of free service

Health Systems

For the past eight years, Kenyan Dr Michael Rebeiro has been treating South African patients for free while he specialised as a plastic surgeon at Wits University.