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Health

NHI Bill must prioritise people, not private interest

The more than 300 bikes recently distributed to the province's community health workers are the first of many, say the North West Department of Health

At the centre of providing universal health care are people and ensuring equitable services, but can the health minister prevent the private sector from hijacking the National Health Insurance?

sibongilenkosi
August 19, 2019

Health

AIDS-free baby girls face infection in their teens

The odds are stacked against young women, making them continually at risk of HIV as long as society is dominated by men and relationships between young girls and older men are the norm.

sibongilenkosi
July 25, 2016

Health, Men's Health, News

HIV testing Campaigns are still missing the men

If we don’t get more heterosexual men to test for HIV, the world is going to miss the UNAIDS target of 90 percent of HIV positive people knowing their status by 2020, according to experts.

sibongilenkosi
July 22, 2016

News

Prince Harry calls for global action against HIV

Prince Harry has told global leaders that HIV remains among the most pressing and urgent challenges facing the world.

sibongilenkosi
July 21, 2016

Health

HIV won’t stop without gay community – Elton John

Sir Elton John believes that the spread of HIV will not be curbed unless everyone is drawn into the battle – gay and lesbian groups included.

sibongilenkosi
July 21, 2016

Health

Study offers new protection to teenagers.

South Africa has the highest HIV infections rate among adolescent new adolescent girls and a new study by the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre is currently testing antiretrovirals to a group of adolescents in a bid to keep them HIV free

sibongilenkosi
July 20, 2016

News

Marching for increased AIDS funding

Civil society groups took to the streets of Durban today , a few hours before the opening of 21st International AIDS Conference, pleading for governments to increase funding for HIV.

sibongilenkosi and sibongilenkosi
July 18, 2016

News

Health-e News intern wins a study tour to US

Health-e News intern Thabo Molelekwa has been selected, along with three other journalists, to be part of a study tour to the United States later this year.

News

Pooling of resources for NHI could lower cost of universal access.

On Tuesday, Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi addressed the media along with members of the Board of As the debate on National Health Insurance (NHI) funding continues, the minister of health has come out in response to the criticism over the high cost associated with rolling out universal health care in South Africa.

sibongilenkosi
June 30, 2016

News

Free maternal healthcare saving lives in Lesotho

Free maternal healthcare service in Lesotho introduced by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is drastically curbing deaths during labour and delivery.

sibongilenkosi
June 17, 2016

Health, Women's Health

Blood on the floor: Women’s deaths a ‘national emergency’

Hundreds of women each year die following caesarean deliveries. With rates of caesarean deliveries climbing, the stage may be set for more deaths to come.

lauralopez and lauralopez
May 6, 2016

Health Systems

Medical staff caught changing medicine expiry dates

The Office of Health Standards Compliance (OHSC) allegedly discovered Charlotte Maxeke Hospital staff changing medicine expiration dates to conceal expired drugs, but staff at the Johannesburg hospital may not be the only ones, warns the OHSC following recent inspections.

sibongilenkosi
April 15, 2016

Health

Johannesburg to launch citywide diabetes campaign

In search of jobs and a better life, droves of South Africans are flocking to the country's cities but a switch to city living could come at a deadly price.

sibongilenkosi
April 14, 2016

Health, News

Power struggles behind Free State TAC split

As Free State health services allegedly continue to deteriorate and prompt a heated battle between politicians and Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) activists, a new organisation has joined the fray as a former Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) leader breaks from TAC.

sibongilenkosi
January 25, 2016

Health, Women's Health

Women on front lines as Free State health crumbles

The Free State Health Department has lost almost a quarter of its doctors in the last year. At Welkom’s Bongani Regional Hospital, the strain is beginning to show with deadly consequences for Free State women.

sibongilenkosi and sibongilenkosi
December 8, 2015

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