Research: The Economic and Social Case for Patent Law Reform in South Africa
The Treatment Action Campaign has released an updated version of its analysis of proposed patent reforms in South Africa.
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Tshwane support workers go unpaid
Many Tshwane health care workers have gone up to five months without payment from the Gauteng Department of Health and are battling to put food on the table and pay school fees.
Gauteng health workers go months without pay
Some Gauteng health workers have gone almost five months without pay in a delay they estimate could be affecting thousands.
Unpaid Soweto health workers speak out
Health-e speaks to several of health workers who have gone months without payment by the Gauteng Department of Health.
Research: The politics of transition and the economics of HIV
Published by Health GAP, this 39-page report alleges that tens of thousands of HIV patients supported by the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) may have been lost to follow up during the aid agency's shift towards more technical assistance in the country.
Nurses down tools to fill holes
Nurses at Limpopo’s Matavhela Clinic in Vhembe put down their medical equipment and took up spades early in December to address some of the clinic’s maintenance issues.
Millions of rands to go towards new vaccines, medicines
Medical research in South Africa is set to get a R370 million boost for the development of new medicines, vaccines and other technologies to fight against HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria.
Documents, policies go missing on “gutted” DIY DoH site
A newly redesigned Department of Health website has left health care workers in the dark – at least temporarily – as important guidelines, policies and tenders go missing.
Research: Trends in national, provincial health and HIV budgets in South Africa
Produced by the Centre for Economic Governance and AIDS in Africa (CEGAA), this 14-page paper provides an analysis of trends in health, HIV and related areas of public spending.
Zuma asked to make China pay
President Jacob Zuma should use his influence to ensure that China donates money to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.
Tobacco tax fights cancer, heart disease
Increasing tobacco taxes is the single most powerful way for low- and middle-income countries to reduce deaths and disease from non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer and heart disease, according to international experts.
Indiscreet nurses tell patients’ secrets
Patients at Limpopo’s Matavhela Clinic say that not much stays just between patients and nurses.
NHI could push public spending on health to new heights
South Africa’s HIV treatment programme costs around R1,6-billion extra every year, according to Mark Blecher, Treasury’s Chief Director for Health and Social Development.
Trailblazing move to take HIV treatment out of clinics
Some of South Africa’s 2.4 million HIV patients will be able to get antiretroviral (ARV) outside of health clinics in a move the Department of Health hopes will help address stock outs.
Widespread stock outs of HIV, TB meds ‘a national crisis’
More than ten percent of all health centres in the country have experienced stock outs of HIV and tuberculosis (TB) medicines in the last three months, jeopardising the health of millions of South African.