The Democratic Alliance has been fiercely opposed to the National Health Insurance Bill. But the official opposition party’s alternative leaves many unanswered questions. Eleanor Whyle, Manya van Ryneveld and Leanne Brady break it down.
He has left an indelible mark on society. His untimely death more than a year ago, left both the local and global academic community reeling.
At the centre of providing universal health care are people and ensuring equitable services, but can the health minister prevent the private sector from hijacking the National Health Insurance?
The world is one step closer to ending the deadliest form of the deadliest infectious disease known to man: extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB).
Patients continue to bear the brunt of inadequate health services, as provinces reveal their health plans over the next year.
More contraceptive options, a constant supply in clinics and building a culture of consent will get South Africa closer to a just society for women.
While the health department has less than half of the personnel it requires to function effectively, activists argue it's people who will suffer the most from these cuts.
Women bear the brunt of inadequate policies, which are great on paper but lacklustre in terms of implementation in public clinics and hospitals.
While the study results have allayed the fears of many, they have also pointed a finger at an enemy that we’ve conveniently ignored at the expense of black women’s lives.
The financial scandal of South Africa’s largest sugar producer hurts its blue-collar employees, who are already marginalised and at risk of non-communicable diseases, the most.
As the South African commemorates Child Protection Week activists call for policy framework that protects children from harmful marketing by Big Food industry.
Mother and chef health guru Labani Mgimeti has taken it upon herself to revolutionise a school tuck shop from a den of sodas and junk food to a haven of health food.
The lack of access to healthy food is a cause and a symptom of South Africa's inequalities which further proves the fight for affordable nutritious food is a social justice issue.
Tackling hypertension nationally and globally will require innovative thinking that looks at the condition as a socio-economic and systemic issue.
South Africans want actual change as the dust of elections settles, but will it come? Especially for those who live far from metropolitan cities where a perpetual state of "Day Zero" has become the norm.
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