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Budget cuts loom: Can the private sector save SA's public health system?

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South African pharmaceutical wholesaler UPD adds 42 electric vans to fleetNqobile Dludla

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Strategic cleaning: the secret to achieving cost efficiency in 2025

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Western Cape EMS responds to record 69,000 calls during festive season

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Are old-school cosmetic facelifts really your skin’s best friend?

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World Cancer Day campaign ‘United by Unique’

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How we diagnose and define obesity is set to change – here’s why, and what it means for treatment

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Happiness surges in the USA on Inauguration Day, but declines in South Africa, Index reveals

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In the 2000s activists across the world campaigned for antiretroviral treatment to be made available to people with HIV. One of the consequences of this was PEPFAR, the United States government’s foreign aid HIV programme. Since 2003 it has saved millions of lives. But now its future is unclear. Photo from the Treatment Action Campaign’s march for HIV treatment in Cape Town on 14 February 2003. (photographer unknown)

Trump’s sudden suspension of foreign aid puts millions of lives in Africa at risk

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Ultra-sound; ‘underused, under-trained,’ in SA

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CDC, FDA, NIH face communication lockdown under Trump

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Let’s make 2025 the year of “mental help”

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The silent crisis: South Africa’s growing battle with OTC and opioid misuse

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Trump orders US exit from WHO

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Healing trauma and building resilience: The role of art therapy in early childhood education

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Brain tumour risk linked to MPA contraceptive use, Sahpra reports

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Virgin Active survey reveals the most outrageous wellness trends from 2024

Virgin Active survey reveals the most outrageous wellness trends from 2024

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Bonitas and GOTG: The partnership that keeps on giving

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#BizTrends2025: South Africa’s cannabis market: preventing misuse or missed opportunities

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The global burden of anaemia

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What dietitians say about 2025’s top nutrition trends

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Samatu condemns government inaction on unemployed doctors, warns of public healthcare crisis

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Network restored at Western Cape healthcare facilities

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In the 2000s activists across the world campaigned for antiretroviral treatment to be made available to people with HIV. One of the consequences of this was PEPFAR, the United States government’s foreign aid HIV programme. Since 2003 it has saved millions of lives. But now its future is unclear. Photo from the Treatment Action Campaign’s march for HIV treatment in Cape Town on 14 February 2003. (photographer unknown)

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