UNAIDS: Children left out of HIV planning
Children remain vulnerable despite gains in HIV prevention and treatment
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#AIDS2020Virtual: Covid-1919 impacts 17.7 million people on ARVs
The World Health Organization and UNAIDS has warned that if efforts are not made to mitigate health services and supply interruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic,the disruption of antiretroviral therapy could cause 500 000 more deaths in sub-Saharan Africa in 2020–2021.
#AIDS2020Virtual: Pills, vaccines and the road towards the HIV cure
"In the face of a seemingly hopeless scientific and humanitarian challenge, scientists and activists joined together to accelerate the development of breakthrough treatment and biomedical prevention tools," reads the 23rd International Aids Conference website.
#AIDS2020VIRTUAL: Community involvement key to addressing disparities after 40-years of HIV pandemic
“Communities are important – as some of great ideas might not generally come from the top, but they can come from the bottom,” says Gregorio Millett of the American Foundation for Aids Research.
#AIDS2020VIRTUAL: Setting the path for new HIV targets
All countries should set the same 2025 goals to work towards eradicating HIV in the next ten years.
#Aids2020Virtual: How to improve PrEP delivery
The lesson taken from the Covid-19 pandemic to treating HIV/Aids is to make delivery of medication simpler and diverse to save more lives.
#BudgetSpeech2020: ‘The NHI is protected’
Despite budget cuts, Treasury says NHI pilot projects will be safeguarded.
#NHIPublicHearings: Four down, five to go, what have we learned so far?
Across the provinces, the hearings reveal that people do in fact know what they want from a functional health system that serves their needs. But we have to ask, have people been adequately educated about the bill?
#NHIPublicHearings: Bill receives mixed feelings in Mopani District
The continuous inadequate delivery of health services is a cause of concern for many residents as polarising views on the NHI surface.
Ten years later: The NHI must prioritise sexual and reproductive health
Reproductive justice is a win-win situation where everyone benefits and a South Africa universal health coverage funding model should ensure this, writes Marion Stevens.
Clinic accused of sending sick baby away
This mother was allegedly turned away when she took her ailing baby to their local clinic.
Tips for Whistleblowers
WATCH: Marije Versteeg-Mojanaga, the head of the Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP), shares tips on whistleblowing for healthcare workers.
Discovery: NHI system is ‘pragmatic and workable’
Discovery Health believes that the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill confirms that medical schemes will continue to exist alongside the NHI system
NGO’s hampered by slow social grants payouts
Despite the Gauteng Social Development Department’s commitment to settle outstanding grants to a number of aid organisations taking care of the province’s vulnerable groups, requirements for these grants have been heavily criticised.
SA’s private healthcare ‘not competitive’, Competition Commission finds
The Competition Commission has found that medical aid members have been getting a raw deal and now schemes and healthcare providers have two months to respond to recommendations that there be changes to the way the private healthcare sector operates and that medical aids clarify their offerings.