Industry to blame sugar tax for global job cuts?
Unions and government are on the look-out for industry using job loss claims as an excuse to fire workers in the name of profit.
Amy Green
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Climate change brings unseasonal malaria outbreak
The recent outbreak caused panic as hospitals overflowed with malaria patients.
Medicine shortages fuel shock malaria outbreak
Medicine shortages and the weather are to blame for the recent spike in malaria cases and resulting crisis.
Medical aids and the high cost of psychiatric meds
Many people suffering from depression and anxiety rely on expensive medication, but they are often not covered by medical aid.
Dieticians for diabetics: an “essential investment”
New guidelines for treatment and prevention make the case for prioritising dieticians but there is little buy-in from government.
Junk food, junk status cause skyrocketing medical costs
Medical costs expected to skyrocket after South Africa's credit rating downgrade to junk status.
More Esidimeni deaths, but none from neglect
About six more former Life Esidimeni patients have died since the Ombudsman's investigation but none passed on in the same "inhumane, negligent and unacceptable conditions".
Activists don’t endorse new government HIV & TB plan
South Africa’s guide to addressing HIV and TB for the next five years does not have the support of key activists, who are also critical about how the plan was drawn up.
NSP fails to address HIV in prisons
The new plan that to guide South Africa’s fight against HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) fails to address some of “the drivers of the epidemics”, like overcrowding and sexual violence in prisons.
Diabetics at greater risk of developing TB
Diabetics should be careful to protect themselves from TB, explains this Khayelitsha man who is living with both conditions.
Incurable TB: Patients die without dignity
There are no state-funded facilities for people living with incurable TB to spend the rest of their lives safely.
When adolescence and TB meet
Teens with drug-resistant TB struggle to navigate years of treatment, school and the general pressures of adolescence.