Released by public interest organisation Section27, this fact sheet outlines key information regarding the ongoing Competition Commission inquiry into the private health care sector.
South Africa’s HIV antiretroviral (ARV) treatment programme saved 780 000 lives between 2003 and 2012, according to a recently released independent review.
In the wake of protests demanding better patent laws to allow South Africans access to cheaper medicines, politicians had little to say about the issue of affordable medicines at a debate yesterday.
Released at a March regional meeting on tuberculosis (TB) in southern Africa's mines, these documents cover TB treatment harmonization, compensation and the economic benefits of regular TB screening of mining communities.
It is not a matter of if South Africa will move to earlier HIV treatment, but when, says Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi.
Although one pill a day can manage HIV, one young woman says there is still is not a pill for navigating love – and sex – in relationships where the virus is always the "third wheel."
Days after Gauteng community health workers made good on promises to take their fight for payment to the ANC’s Luthuli House headquarters in a protest, the Gauteng Department of Health announced that almost 8 000 workers will be paid by month’s end.
South Africa’s first class action silicosis suit could win compensation for hundreds of thousands of miners and widows – and prepare the way for a class action suit against the mines for tuberculosis.
Ahead of South Africa's May elections, many of the country's major political parties have little to say about health issues in the country as only eight parties respond to questions from the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC).
The Medical Research Council (MRC) will get its first woman president next month when Professor Glenda Gray succeeds Professor Abdool Karim.
As part of a national Health-e investigation, we travel to the Eastern Cape to explore vaccine stock-outs and storage problems - and watch what one doctor is doing to help rural mums.
Stock-outs and poor vaccine storage stand between life-saving immunizations and South African children. Take a look as Health-e explores the issue from Pretoria to the Eastern Cape.
While most babies get their first measles vaccination, many miss the second dose as mums struggle to reach far off clinics in the Eastern Cape, say nurses.
Today, the departments of health and basic education have launched a campaign to vaccinate girls nine years and older against cervical cancer but some wonder if the country is not missing the other 50 percent.
Despite flattering statistics presented by government about community access to water and sanitation, many communities experience “a starkly different reality.”
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