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The Treatment Action Campaign has reported massive condom stockouts and shortages in the beleaguered Free State.
Health-e has developed a timeline on the doctors’ strike which is updated daily. Click here to the see the latest developments around the strike which has now been suspended.
Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi shared his priorities during his first budget speech this week. Urgently increasing the number of women receiving PMTCT and implementing NHI are just some of the issues highlighted by Motsoaledi.
The issue of the need to establish a national health insurance system is not a new phenomenon. By Dr Olive Shisana.
The latest pay offer reduces the rural allowance for doctors without explantion. By Dr. Bernard Gaede.
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The HIV community is reeling from the death of Cape Town doctor Steve Andrews (39) ‘€“ activist and people’€™s doctor and one of the top HIV physicians in the country. Andrews, personal physician to many HIV activists, died in his sleep on Friday night.
While South Africa has made some progress towards reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), mental health and poverty remain major challenges, according to public hearings on the MDGs hosted by the SA Human Rights Commission.
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Up until March this year, there were 1 234 people in need of a kidney transplant in the Johannesburg region alone. So far, only 20 people have received kidney transplants. South Africans are being called upon to become organ donors.
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While South Africans are aware that using condoms can prevent HIV infection, the majority do not understand that having more than one sexual partner increases the risk of infection.
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About 3 500 patients are currently on the waiting list for kidney transplants. At Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital alone, 160 patients are awaiting a transplant. But not all of them will be lucky enough to receive a kidney.
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has heard that mental health is an overlooked priority. This was said at the Commission’€™s recent public hearings focusing on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the realisation of economic and social rights in South Africa.
In a desperate attempt to stem growing strike action among public sector doctors, health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi yesterday (Wednesday) made public the offer government would be taking to the bargaining chamber.