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HIV activists and senior doctors have called for an urgent investigation into the continued rollout of a controversial male circumcision device in KwaZulu-Natal.
Thousands more people from disadvantaged backgrounds will benefit from the second Phelophepa train, which reaches into communities where health care is hard to access.
Last week a new analysis of adult mortality rates in African countries was released. The study authors found that between 2004 and 2008, in those nations where the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was most active, the odds of death were about 20 percent lower than in other countries in the region. By Chris Collins.
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Cancer patients were turned away today at the Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital in Johannesburg as a radiation machine had not been repaired due to a non-payment dispute with Siemens.
The ANC policy proposals have been released. Read it here.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of women around the world die during childbirth because they lack access to the medical assistance they need. On International Women’s Day, March 8, MSF is releasing a report, Maternal Death: The Avoidable Crisis, that details the profound, life-saving impact quality emergency obstetric care can have for pregnant women who are trying to endure acute and chronic humanitarian crises. Read the report here.
CAPE TOWN – Millions of newborns, children and mothers continue to die needlessly, especially in sub-Saharan Africa where rates of child mortality are the highest in the world. In this region one out of every eight children die before their fifth birthday, twenty times the rate of industrialised countries.
CAPE TOWN – For National Health Insurance (NHI) to be successful the quality of public healthcare must improve ‘tremendously’ and a stop must be put to the pricing of private health ‘which is running away with us’, health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi told the Healthcare in Africa meeting last night (TUES).
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Pregnant women that want to quit smoking will not find a lot of relief in nicotine patches, according to new research published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Dudley Lee’s case reveals how overcrowding and a struggling court system are fuelling a TB epidemic. By Nathan Geffen
It took a while for many of Patrick Ngwenya’s neighbours to accept that he really was a qualified as a doctor.
A preliminary audit report of South Africa’s health facilities shows a majority of institutions to be dirty and also questions patient safety in these services.