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This year’s guidelines mark the fourth revision in the maternity guidelines for clinics and district hospitals.
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The Department of Health has published the Traditional Health Practitioners Regulations in line with the Traditional Health Practitioners Act. The deadline for written comments is 2 February 2016.
The nine-page executive summary of the almost 100 page report outlines problems at the Health Professionals Council of South Africa (HPCSA) unearthed by a ministerial task team convened by Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi.
In this British Journal of Psychiatry supplement, the Programme for Improving Mental Health Care (PRIME) outlines district mental health care plans from five low- and middle-income countries.
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Compiled by the Rural Health Advocacy Project, the third annual fact sheet presents and update on the status of rural health in South Africa.
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The World Health Organisation’s latest annual report on tuberculosis (TB) reveals that the world has met the Millennium Development Goal of reducing trends in new cases of TB but the disease still killed 1.5 million people in 2014.
This African Centre for Migration and Society report details challenges faced by South Africa in recruiting foreign health workers and alleges that the asylum system is being used as a ‘backdoor’ for recruiting professionals.
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.
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.
The 227-page report highlights a number of achievements for the department, including progress on the implementation of the National Health Insurance.
Written by a coalition of civil society organisations and health care providers, the 43-page report details how access to mental health services in rural areas remains limited by the over-centralisation of services, budget and staff shortages, and discrimination.
Health-e News Print Editor Laura Lopez Gonzalez has won a Vodacom Journalist of the Year Regional Award for her investigation into the crippling state of Mpumalanga’s orthopaedic services.