DURBAN - South Africa needs to revisit its stubborn policy of not employing foreign qualified doctors from other African countries, despite the fact that they are already in the country, the country's first TB conference has heard.
Independent health economist, Alex van den Heever, says the country's public health system does not have the capacity to accommodate foreign migrants. The statement follows a series of reports of foreign migrants being denied access to health care.
Smoke-free policies are reducing heart disease related to smoke exposure, the prevalence of smoking in adults and the exposure of both adults and children to second-hand smoke.
Political interference is increasingly making it difficult for public service health professionals to provide the best quality care to patients. In 'Dare to care', a book to be published next month, Dr Thys von Mollendorff, gives a personal account of how deadly this interference can be.
Treasury officials are sent to hospital to investigate donor funds for dual therapy as KwaZulu-Natal MEC intensifies her campaign against Manguzi Hospital.
Two bills recently tabled in Parliament are set to shake up the private hospital industry and centralise decision-making over hospital tariffs as well as the regulation of new medicines and scientific trials within the health minister's office.
The special task team into Manguzi Hospital reported back almost a month ago, but still the KZN MEC's office has not released its findings
The health department has started the training a new category of healthcare worker, but will need more money from treasury if it is to become a sustainable intervention.
For seven years, Dr Malcolm Naude has been fighting the Mpumalanga Health Department over an unfair and discriminatory dismissal. His case concluded last week in the Labour Court in Johannesburg and judgement was reserved.
The Millennium Development Goals are eight goals that 189 United Nations Member states including South Africa are committed to achieve by 2015. Critical Health Perspective, a publication of the People's Health Movement, looks at South Africa's prospects for meeting the MDG targets for child survival, a goal many feel will not be reached.
After a seemingly never-ending seven-year legal battle with the Mpumalanga Health Department, Dr Malcolm Naude's struggle is almost over. The Labour Court in Johannesburg heard closing arguments from both sides this past Wednesday and judgement was reserved.
A new survey investigating the levels of HIV infection in South Africa is coming to your home soon. To achieve the objective, fieldworkers will carry out random visits to 15 000 homes nationally.
South Africa battle-field surgeon Jonathan Kaplan has won a prestigious humanitarian award for working in various war zones across the world, often under extremely trying conditions.
A disturbing pattern of reprisals against public service doctors who voice their concerns or put the interests of patients before the bureaucracy, thus improving the quality of care in the South African health system, is on the rise.
This week the South African National Defence Force's labour policies on HIV/AIDS came under scrutiny in the Pretoria High Court. Three HIV-positive military members together with the security forces union, SASFU, have instituted a case to challenge their constitutionality, alleging that the policies are discriminatory.
