Simple, affordable life-saving measures, such as exclusive breastfeeding, immunization, insecticide-treated bed nets and vitamin A supplementation, have helped to reduce child deaths in recent years, according to UNICEF'€™s The State of the World'€™s Children 2008 report.
The Southern African HIV Clinicians Society has added its voice to the growing criticism of the health department's failure to get its house in order on the prevention of mother to children transmission (PMTCT) programme.
New guidelines to prevent HIV positive mothers from infecting their babies will finally be put to the National Health Council on Friday '€“ at least a month behind schedule.
The more than 100 000 nurses employed by government are expected to benefit from salary increases before the end of March, the health department has confirmed.
Doctors and The Lancet have slammed immigration officials who removed a terminally ill Ghanaian woman from a hospital in Wales and escorted her back to Ghana, where she is unable to afford the treatment she needs to prolong her life.
'€˜Personalised medicine'€™ is the hottest trend in wealthy countries, but how do poor countries get access to gene-specific treatment when we can'€™t even get ordinary pills to people?
There are no services in Nqileni Village in the Eastern Cape and kids are dying from drinking contaminated water. But a conditional grant for the district was returned untouched to the Treasury
Bulungula Lodge offers a sustainable way of life within a tight community.
The health indicators, which provide a snapshot of our nation'€™s health, still paint a picture of a violent, racially divided country where women bear the brunt of disease.
A single dose of two antiretrovirals given to mothers shortly after giving birth has shown to reduce the chances of the women developing later resistance, a new study from Zambia has shown.
Traditional medicine generates almost R3-billion a year and government needs to urgently remove barriers preventing its practitioners from claiming from medical schemes for services rendered.
The private sector is putting pressure on government to allow it to operate private medical schools.
The introduction of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in South Africa has been one of the more significant health care reforms in recent years, accelerating the efficient delivery of health care services at costs that are affordable.
Compulsory health insurance could be an effective way of dealing with problems in the private sector and addressing disparities between public and private health sectors.
While hospital beds in the public sector are being reduced, the private sector has added almost 7 000 beds between 1998 and 2006.
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