World needs 3.5-m health workers
CAPE TOWN - The world needs more doctors, nurses and other health care workers - 3.5 million of them, to be exact.
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Gates seeks health innovators to reduce baby and mom deaths
SEATTLE - This week 65 international innovators are competing for significant funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
AIDS response must be guided by human rights and justice
In South Africa and across Africa, HIV continues to prey on women, sex workers and men who have sex with men. It is clear that to end the HIV epidemic, we must protect and support these groups.By Festus Mogae and Stephen Lewis
DG: Health budgets first to go when crises hit
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.
Minister gears up for NHI battle
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.
PHC success relies on CHWs being able to do more
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).
Treasury need to come to NHI party: McIntyre
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.
Meetings aim to address root causes of 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.
Ten Years Since the TAC case: A judgment that saved a million lives
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
Primary healthcare revolution
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.
A total ban on alcohol advertising: Presenting the public health case
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.
Academic Hospitals under central control: ANC
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.
The hunt for new antibiotics
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).
Gauteng warns counsellors to return to work Living with AIDS # 522
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.
Patients fed up with bad attitude from nursing staff
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.