CAPE TOWN - Health and education budgets are cut in times of financial crises despite the fact that the opposite should be happening, according to South African health department Director-General Precious Matsoso.
CAPE TOWN - It is not how much money countries spend on health, but how they spend it, which improves people's lives.
CAPE TOWN - South Africa needs to urgently look to countries such as Rwanda, Thailand and Brazil, where they have employed community health workers (CHWs) to deliver a range of primary health care services that dramatically reduced mortality, public health expert Professor David Sanders told the National Health Assembly (NHA).
CAPE TOWN - There is going to be a 'serious fight to get what we want in our health system' and while the National Health Insurance (NHI) Green Paper was steering matters in the right direction health care delivery can't go from 'horrible to wonderful' overnight, health economist Professor Di McIntyre cautioned.
CAPE TOWN ' Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi is gearing up for several court battles as he aims to regulate certain aspects of the food and other private sector industries driving poor health.
CAPE TOWN ' Health and social justice activists as well as health ministers and key policy makers from across the world will meet in Cape Town this week to address the drivers of inequity which fundamentally impact on the health of the poor.
Twenty-three years after a South African Medical Journal article called for a ban on tobacco advertising, ample evidence indicates that the severe public health burden from hazardous and harmful use of alcohol in South Africa warrants the same drastic action.
OPINION: 'The magnitude of the HIV/AIDS challenge facing the country calls for a concerted, co-ordinated and co-operative national effort in which government in each of its three spheres and the panoply of resources and skills of civil society are marshalled, inspired and led. This can only be achieved if there is proper communication, especially by government.' By Brian Honermann and Mark Heywood
Health-e's documentary on the National Health Insurance (NHI),focusing on the re-engineering of primary healthcare to meet the health needs of the country, is being broadcast this Thursday on "Cutting Edge", SABC 1 at 9.30pm.
Academic hospitals should be centrally controlled, and 1000 doctors will start training in Cuba later this year, the ANC commission on health policy resolved in Midrand on Friday.
LONDON, 29 June 2012 (IRIN) - Almost one in every five deaths worldwide occurs as a result of infection, but many bacterial illnesses will become incurable as the efficacy of current antibiotic drugs wanes, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Gauteng Health Department has warned protesting HIV counsellors and home-based care-givers that there will be consequences if they don't return to work immediately. But it also admits it might not be able to pay them on time if they do.
During a recent visit to the Daveyton Main Clinic, on Gauteng's East Rand, Ayanda Mkhwanazi of Health-e News Service, found patients complaining of appalling staff attitudes, which hinder effective health service delivery.
The recent shortage of a crucial antiretroviral drug, Tenofovir, is but just a symptom of an underlying general problem of health management in South Africa. Part of this is the lack of oversight on drug supplies and availability by the national Health Department.
Bellagio, Italy'Journalists from across Africa announced the creation of the first continent-wide professional association of health journalists.
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