Report: South African Health Review 2016
The Health Systems Trust’s annual publication on health trends and topics in South Africa includes chapters on water and sanitation, eHealth, and sexual and reproductive health.
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Medicine, morality on South Africa’s drug routes
When you're a doctor operating along South Africa’s drug routes, anything can happen and when it does, reality and relations can change in an instant, writes one rural doctor.
Quarter of surveyed health facilities report stock outs
Almost 25 percent of health facilities surveyed nationally have gone without HIV or tuberculosis (TB) medicines at least once in the last year, according to preliminary survey results released this week.
Health-e News among Discovery Health Journalism Awards finalists
Health-e News print and television reporters are among finalists announced today for the prestigious annual Discovery Health Journalism Award.
Community health workers take health department to court
At least 400 Gauteng community health workers are suing the Gauteng Department of Health after they allege the department violated labour law when it asked them to re-apply for their jobs without notice.
One pill a day to keep HIV at bay for thousands of sex workers
One pill a day will soon help keep thousands of sex workers HIV-free as South Africa is expected to announce today that it will provide antiretrovirals to thousands HIV-negative sex workers in a bid to keep them HIV free.
Private healthcare: The blame game
The Competition Commission’s inquiry into private healthcare has changed focus, with medical schemes and administrators doing their best to blame others for the cause high price of private care.
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Reprieve expected for dental assistants
The Health Professionals Council of South Africa (HPCSA) is expected to announce a reprieve for thousands of unregistered dental hygienists nationwide just weeks ahead of a change in policy that could have left many open to criminal prosecution.
Vacancy: Office Manager
Health-e News is looking for an experienced office manager to join its dynamic Johannesburg office.
Goats’ milk changing lives
A herd of goats has helped to improve the health of children at Vhutshilo Mountain School in Tshikombani village in Vhembe.
Northern Cape heat wave claims at least 17
As Gauteng and Limpopo brave another heat wave, the Northern Cape's Tshwaragano District Hospital has reported 17 deaths from the recent heat wave that sent temperatures soaring.
The Big Chill: Health post freeze threatens services
Facing a R9-billion shortfall just to meet salary demands, provincial health departments are freezing posts. Whether couched openly in memos or hidden between the lines of spiralling bureaucracy, staff freezes may be South Africa's most significant threat to healthcare.
Power struggles behind Free State TAC split
As Free State health services allegedly continue to deteriorate and prompt a heated battle between politicians and Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) activists, a new organisation has joined the fray as a former Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) leader breaks from TAC.
Limpopo reports rash of malaria cases
Several malaria cases are being reported in northern Limpopo daily, according to Limpopo Department of Health Spokesperson Mack Lesufi.
When the time comes
While science has doubled our life spans, for many elderly people, the last phase of their lives is often a painful series of medical interventions that delay death but do not add value to life. What should the role of medicine be at the end of a person’s life?