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The latest presentations on NHI from government and other role players from the Board of Healthcare Funders conference. This presentation by Barry Childs.
Government publishes an ambitious timetable for preparing health institutions for the National health Insurance scheme – but leaves virtually no space for public comment
About 60 000 children under five die in South Africa every year. Many women die from pregnancy or child-birth related complications, often exacerbated by HIV. The Health Department wants to change the pattern.
Non-governmental organisations have raised concern over the lack of female condoms claiming that it undermines efforts to curb new infections.
An article that appeared in the Business Day, September 4 unpacks the costs attached to implementing the ANC’€™s recently proposed NHI.
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NAIROBI: (PlusNews) – The search for an AIDS vaccine has taken a step forward with the discovery of two powerful new antibodies that can cripple the HI virus.
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Dr Jorge Sampaio, the United Nations Special Envoy on Tuberculosis recently addressed the 59th World Health Organisation Regional Committee for Africa in Kigali, Rwanda. He reminded ministers that putting money in TB is one of the most cost effective public health investments.
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NAIROBI: (PlusNews) – AIDS activists have praised a decision by the Indian patent office to reject patent applications for two life-prolonging antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, allowing Indian manufacturers to keep on making and exporting generic versions.
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JOHANNESBURG: (PlusNews) – An attempt to help educators around the world develop sex-education programmes as a way to reduce unwanted pregnancies and the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among young people has become bogged down in controversy.
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NAIROBI: (PlusNews) – Shortages of medical staff in Uganda mean clinical officers, nurses and midwives are prescribing life-prolonging antiretroviral therapy (ART) without proper training, a new studyreveals.
Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi declared war on maternal and child deaths at a summit held recently in Johannesburg.
The ANC has been meeting behind closed doors to shape a new health system for the country. While stakeholders and the public have debated the possible shape of a National Health Insurance scheme discussion among the ANC’s task team has been behind closed doors. Health-e was recently leaked the 68-page policy proposal sent by the ANC’s NHI task team to the party’s Secretary-General Gwede Mantashe.