The Hawks are investigating a former Wits University Dean and National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) head for his alleged role in the laboratory’s procurement of HIV testing kits worth R18-million that never arrived.
Released in August 2014, the 33-page protocol is to be followed by health authorities, establishments and professional bodies.
Eskom recently donated the first of two buses to be used to expand the school health programme in Mpumalanga. Now, the province may also be courting the private sector to ramp up HIV counselling and testing (HCT).
Life is hardest for people living in the Eastern Cape’s Alfred Nzo district, where fewer than six out of 100 households have inside taps.
The National Health Insurance (NHI) is likely to revolutionise health funding. This could include new, business-like approaches to health and new roles for medical aids in the post-NHI world, according to latest South African Health Review released last night.
Released annually by the Health Systems Trust, the South African Health Review is comprised of 17 chapters on topical health issues.
Released annually by the Health Systems Trust, the District Health Barometer compiles information from the District Health Information System, the electronic tuberculosis (TB) register and the National Treasury
More than a month after OurHealth first reported on long wait times at Tshwane District Hospital, patients allege that the problem persists.
When Leah Khumalo arrived at Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital, she says she thought she was due for a routine scan to discover the cause of her persistent ankle pain. Instead, the hospital amputated her leg. Now, she wants answers.
This 62-page documents is the country's first officially endorsed national mental health policy.
Better data has revealed more than half a million more tuberculosis (TB) cases than previously thought, according to a World Health Organisation (WHO) report released yesterday (22 October).
As extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) patients beg for a new patent policy to allow them affordable treatment, multinational pharmaceutical companies have objected to some of the draft policy’s key tenets.
Soshanguve residents outside Pretoria are demanding a local clinic expand its services and operate 24 hours a day to meet the community’s need.
The communities of Mafunze and Maswazini say they would ranther pay more to travel to a nearby clinic than use the one in nearest their communities.
This World Health Organisation (WHO) database includes national policy documents on topics such as mental health, disability and substance abuse from countries around the world.
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