Activists from more than 30 civil society organisations have again threatened to take the Eastern Cape Department of Health to court over alleged failure to fix the provincial health services.
In just days, South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) will deploy a high tech mobile lab to assist West African countries in combating the Ebola outbreak. The move comes as South Africa and the region continues to prepare for possible cases.
The Department of Health has decided to shelve plans to regulate where doctors could practice – at least temporarily.
South African scientists may be en route to developing shorter, better tuberculosis (TB) treatment, according to research released at the International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia.
Men who have sex with men (MSM) should be offered antiretrovirals (ARVs) before they contract HIV to prevent infection, according to new international guidelines released Friday.
Another 50 Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) members have been arrested following a second wave of protest over what the TAC alleges is a “health crisis” in the Free State.
More than 100 community health workers and members of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) have been arrested and one man allegedly assaulted by police in Bloemfontein following what TAC says was a peaceful protest outside.
South African Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi says three issues should top the post Millennium Development Goal (MDG) agenda.
The Medicines Control Council (MCC) has granted humanitarian group Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) access to a cheaper drug to treat extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB).
Unpaid health workers staged a night vigil and sit in at the offices of the Free State premier and MEC for health as the province’s health system continues to spiral – and the Free State Department of Health remains largely silent, say activists.
More than half a million boys have been hospitalised due to botched traditional circumcisions since 2008, according to a new report. Released yesterday, the report says that the dangerous commercialisation of tradition is fuelling the rise of illegal initiation schools in which drug abuse and violence may be rampant.
Hospitals turning away patients, unpaid health workers and stock outs of more more than 200 essential medicines and medical supplies – symptoms of a provincial health system that is imploding, say activists.
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