Motsoaledi tables budget
Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi tabled his 2011/2 budget in parliament on Tuesday. The health department's budget has increased from 21,7 billion in the 2010/11 financial year to 25,7 billion in the 2011/12 financial year.
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Minister reacts to nursing compact
A crucial meeting between the nursing profession and the Health Department ended on a high note in Johannesburg, this week. The meeting sought to address deficiencies of a profession that is despised by many South Africans who receive nursing care in government health facilities.
Health: The role of the State Living with AIDS # 470
Against the back-drop of diminishing donor support for national AIDS programmes in Africa and the rest of the developing world, the question on many minds is: What role should individual states play to ensure that their citizens continue to receive critical care?
Zuma’s call to nurses
SANDTON - Nurses should invoke the spirits of their noble predecessors Florence Nightingale, Cecilia Makiwane and Henrietta Stockdale and restore the profession to its rightful place in society, President Jacob Zuma told a Nursing Summit.
Call to respect the right to health care Living with AIDS # 469
Health campaigners in east and southern Africa want the United Nations to develop a policy framework to ensure that countries honour and implement the right to health care.
Global Fund gets tough on corruption
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has announced that former President of Botswana Festus Mogae and former American Health and Human Services Secretary Michael O. Leavitt will lead an independent and thorough review of the fund'€™s financial safeguards.
Gauteng health services need improvement
Civil society organisations say the right to access health care is still not a reality for many in Gauteng province.
SafeCare Initiative to tackle PHC settings
An initiative aimed at improving the quality of healthcare in resource poor settings in Africa was launched in Cape Town yesterday.
Matsoso tackles rude staff and dirty clinics
CAPE TOWN - The South Africa government is extremely concerned about the continued dissatisfaction of patients who often face rude staff, long queues as well as dirty and unsafe clinics and hospitals, the Director General of Health acknowledged at a meeting on healthcare standards and quality.
SECTION27 and the TAC welcome the increased budget for health
SECTION27 and the Treatment Action Campaign welcome the increased budget for health, but expressed certain concerns.
Prevention to get major boost in new budget
Finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan, is today (23/02/11) expected to announce an increase in the AIDS budget for the next financial year. About 30% of the allocation will go towards HIV prevention efforts.
SA failing its poor children
CAPE TOWN - South Africa'€™s world-class government policies are failing to reach poor children on the margins, according to child experts.
Scientist warn of cellphone health risks
Children and pregnant women should avoid using cell phones, cordless phones and other wireless devices.
MCC fails to deliver best ARV combos
South Africa'€™s Medicines Control Council (MCC) refused to fast track critical fixed dose combination (FDC) antiretrovirals for inclusion in the country'€™s massive antiretroviral tender outcome announced in December, several sources have confirmed.
Towards improved healthcare
With the launch of the AID Effectiveness Framework for Health last week, the Health Department is confident that it has taken a step closer to achieving its goal of giving South Africans better health care. This follows a renewed financial boost to the country'€™s health system.
