Rural hospitals in South Africa are facing a serious doctor shortage in 2012 as a result of delays in registering foreign qualified doctors and the failure to place community service doctors in underserved hospitals.
Tomorrow on Special Assignment, Health-e brings you the inspiring story of a builder and a taxi-driver who overcame the impossible and dedicated their lives to saving others.
A new cadre of health care workers aimed at strengthening the health service will join the system next year. The first batch of a new category of health professionals, known as 'clinical associates', recently graduated from Wits University, in Johannesburg.
While the developing world is still reeling from the blow of foreign funders' withdrawal from supporting AIDS programmes, South African Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, says he is not alarmed that the donor community is now going back on its promise of support.
Over the last few months, the Democratic Alliance (DA) has been studying the government's National Health Insurance (NHI) proposal and have also held a series of workshops with key stakeholders from government, civil society and the healthcare industry. Read their position paper on an alternative to NHI here.
When the South African National AIDS Council launches the new National Strategic Plan on HIV/AIDS and TB later today, it will highlight the prevention of new infections as a key aim. The plan is the start of a long-term vision to be accomplished over 20 years.
OPINION: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has been the international financial armada in the battle against the three diseases. The collapse of the next round of Global Fund grants, known as Round 11, is the most serious, catastrophic setback in the Fund's decade of existence. By Stephen Lewis.
Government's new five-year plan to address HIV is based on a few big, proven interventions aimed at maximum impact rather than a shopping list of small ideas.
The National Strategic Plan (NSP) 2012 - 2016, to be launched in Port Elizabeth today (1 Dec), will cost in the region of R131-billion.
Today, 22 November, Health-e News Service stands with media and civil society organisations throughout the country in protest against the Protection of State Information Bill ' commonly known as the Secrecy Bill -- that goes before the National Assembly.
Elderly people are dying because of prolonged periods of untreated chronic illnesses rather than old age. This is according to a recent study conducted on the health challenges facing elderly people in rural areas.
Regular visits to your dentist can help you keep your teeth bright and shining. They can also tell you about the state of your general health, as poor oral health may be an indication of your overall health.
Activists are calling on South Africa to take the lead in moves for a 'Robin Hood' tax for health at this week's G20 meeting in Cannes.
The National Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, has applauded Wits University for heeding his call to increase their intake of medical students in order to address the shortages of human resources in the public health sector.
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's Medium Term Budget Speech praises the health minister for dramatically reducing the ARV bill and commits to communicating on how he intends financing the National Health Insurance bill in his next budget. Read his full speech here.
OPINION: National Health Insurance (NHI). Love it or hate it. It's coming. With a Green Paper released for public consultation, role players and South Africans at large for the first time have some concrete information as to how the South African healthcare landscape is going to be transformed.
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