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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
Civil society organisations say the right to access health care is still not a reality for many in Gauteng province.
An initiative aimed at improving the quality of healthcare in resource poor settings in Africa was launched in Cape Town yesterday.
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 Treatment Action Campaign welcome the increased budget for health, but expressed certain concerns.
CAPE TOWN - South Africa'€™s world-class government policies are failing to reach poor children on the margins, according to child experts.
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.
Children and pregnant women should avoid using cell phones, cordless phones and other wireless devices.
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.
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.
An investigation into the deaths of six babies at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic hospital last year warned that there was a very real danger of this tragedy repeating itself.
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