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The public has until 14 March to comment on the policy, which focuses on equitable provision sanitation services, strengthening sanitation providers and sustainability.
The public has until 31 May* to comment on the NHI White Paper, but the response has been muted. Yet the NHI provides an opportunity to improve quality and address the lack of health workers, writes Section27’s Sasha Stevenson.
The United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines is calling for proposals to enhance and strengthen the promotion of innovation and access to medicines, vaccines and diagnostics.
The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) has urged all dental assistants to register as the moratorium on criminal prosecution of unregistered dental assistants draws to a close.
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When a 12-year-old girl slides onto your operating table for a caesarean section, it’s hard not to ask how she got here – and the answer seems to lie somewhere in the distance between cities and villages and in the family planning gap between the “have’s” and “have not’s”
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Compiled by the TB/HIV Care Association, the 16-page report details almost 250 instances of alleged human rights abuses against drug users between August and November 2015.
The working paper by the Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP) outlines the causes and implications of alleged hiring freezes in seven provinces nationwide.
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The 52-page report represents the culmination of two years of work by the World Health Organisation (WHO) committee in an effort to address the alarming levels of childhood obesity and overweight globally.
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The joint publication by the Stop TB Partnership and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) surveys tuberculosis treatment (TB) and diagnosis policy and practice in 24 countries.
The online, searchable portal serves as a repository of health-related past and present research conducted in South Africa.
This Medical Research Council brief summarises the key points of a systematic review evaluating the medicinal use of cannabis first published by Dr Penny Whiting in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).