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Gauteng Health MEC laments poor Ekurhuleni spaza food safety standards

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Community health workers, supported by Nehawu, picketed outside the Labour Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Photo: Silver Sibiya/GroundUp

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Ster-Kinekor’s Vision Mission assists eye care health across SA

Ster-Kinekor’s Vision Mission assists eye care health across SA

Community health workers, supported by Nehawu, picketed outside the Labour Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Photo: Silver Sibiya/GroundUp

Community health workers picket outside Labour Court

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Ster-Kinekor’s Vision Mission assists eye care health across SA

Ster-Kinekor’s Vision Mission assists eye care health across SA

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Neil Kirby, head of the healthcare & life sciences practice at Werksmans Attorneys

#HASA2017: Plotting the legislative pathway to NHI

Nicci Botha 2 Oct 2017

Mariné Erasmus, head of the health economics practice at Econex

#HASA2017: UHC funding - the great distraction

Nicci Botha 2 Oct 2017

Shivani Ranchod, Healthcare actuary, Insight Actuaries and Consultants

#HASA2017: Pathways to universal care

Nicci Botha 2 Oct 2017

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#HASA2017: Lessons in medical ethics

Nicci Botha 29 Sep 2017

Medical negligence claims rise by 25%

Medical negligence claims rise by 25%

26 Sep 2017

The fight against antimicrobial resistance depends on good agricultural practices

The fight against antimicrobial resistance depends on good agricultural practices

26 Sep 2017

Lessons from Cuba

Lessons from Cuba

21 Sep 2017

UHC is achievable, but it takes political will

UHC is achievable, but it takes political will

19 Sep 2017

Tristate Heart and Vascular Centre in Nigeria. Photo: Tristate Heart and Vascular Centre

Philanthropists join forces to fund Africa's cash-strapped health sector

Pavithra Rao 19 Sep 2017

Why the path to longer and healthier lives for all Africans is within reach

Alex Ezeh, Nelson Sewankambo and Peter Piot 18 Sep 2017

What is the real cost of NHI?

What is the real cost of NHI?

Martin van Staden 14 Sep 2017

Photo: Independent Development Trust

KZN gets ultimatum to fix health crisis

Nicci Botha 11 Sep 2017

'Cyberchondria' costs the UK health service £56m a year

'Cyberchondria' costs the UK health service £56m a year

11 Sep 2017

Fort Hare nursing students may be barred for the year

Fort Hare nursing students may be barred for the year

5 Sep 2017

Justice John Hlophe, judge president of the Western Cape High Court

Looking at mediation to resolve medico-legal disputes

4 Sep 2017

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Public backs tax on sugary drinks and junk food

4 Sep 2017

Waiting to inhale: Radiation and living near mines

Waiting to inhale: Radiation and living near mines

1 Sep 2017

Cost containment and quality healthcare need not be mutually exclusive

Cost containment and quality healthcare need not be mutually exclusive

Mark Arnold 30 Aug 2017

Obesity in SA (Image Supplied)

Study finds large number of South Africans happy to be overweight

29 Aug 2017

Source: ; . Graphics by Insight Survey

Is SA's healthcare getting better?

Insight Survey 28 Aug 2017

Salaries eat into provincial public health budgets

Salaries eat into provincial public health budgets

23 Aug 2017

Livingstone Hospital in Port Elizabeth. Photo: Bhekisisa/Oupa Nkosi

Tax snag leaves cancer patients in the lurch

15 Aug 2017

Cecilia Makhiwane Hospital. Picture: Daily Dispatch

Attack on doctor sparks security concerns

14 Aug 2017

Legal barriers to fast tracking HIV/TB response in Africa

Legal barriers to fast tracking HIV/TB response in Africa

4 Aug 2017

Climate change set to increase air pollution deaths by hundreds of thousands by 2100

Climate change set to increase air pollution deaths by hundreds of thousands by 2100

Guang Zeng and Jason West 1 Aug 2017

Dr Rufaro Chatora, WHO country representative

How will private healthcare evolve under UHC?

Nicci Botha 27 Jul 2017

NHLS proposes revised salary offer

NHLS proposes revised salary offer

26 Jul 2017

UHC lessons from Obamacare

UHC lessons from Obamacare

Nicci Botha 24 Jul 2017

FMF questions NHI financing model

FMF questions NHI financing model

20 Jul 2017

Pre-NHI forum to take on medical aid graft

Pre-NHI forum to take on medical aid graft

19 Jul 2017

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Neil Kirby, head of the healthcare & life sciences practice at Werksmans Attorneys

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Nicci Botha 2 Oct 2017

Mariné Erasmus, head of the health economics practice at Econex

#HASA2017: UHC funding - the great distraction

Nicci Botha 2 Oct 2017

Shivani Ranchod, Healthcare actuary, Insight Actuaries and Consultants

#HASA2017: Pathways to universal care

Nicci Botha 2 Oct 2017

Sheri Fink, author of Five Days at Memorial. Photo:

#HASA2017: Lessons in medical ethics

Nicci Botha 29 Sep 2017

Medical negligence claims rise by 25%

Medical negligence claims rise by 25%

26 Sep 2017

The fight against antimicrobial resistance depends on good agricultural practices

The fight against antimicrobial resistance depends on good agricultural practices

26 Sep 2017

Lessons from Cuba

Lessons from Cuba

21 Sep 2017

UHC is achievable, but it takes political will

UHC is achievable, but it takes political will

19 Sep 2017

Tristate Heart and Vascular Centre in Nigeria. Photo: Tristate Heart and Vascular Centre

Philanthropists join forces to fund Africa's cash-strapped health sector

Pavithra Rao 19 Sep 2017

Why the path to longer and healthier lives for all Africans is within reach

Alex Ezeh, Nelson Sewankambo and Peter Piot 18 Sep 2017

What is the real cost of NHI?

What is the real cost of NHI?

Martin van Staden 14 Sep 2017

Photo: Independent Development Trust

KZN gets ultimatum to fix health crisis

Nicci Botha 11 Sep 2017

'Cyberchondria' costs the UK health service £56m a year

'Cyberchondria' costs the UK health service £56m a year

11 Sep 2017

Fort Hare nursing students may be barred for the year

Fort Hare nursing students may be barred for the year

5 Sep 2017

Justice John Hlophe, judge president of the Western Cape High Court

Looking at mediation to resolve medico-legal disputes

4 Sep 2017

Breakingpic via

Public backs tax on sugary drinks and junk food

4 Sep 2017

Waiting to inhale: Radiation and living near mines

Waiting to inhale: Radiation and living near mines

1 Sep 2017

Cost containment and quality healthcare need not be mutually exclusive

Cost containment and quality healthcare need not be mutually exclusive

Mark Arnold 30 Aug 2017

Obesity in SA (Image Supplied)

Study finds large number of South Africans happy to be overweight

29 Aug 2017

Source: ; . Graphics by Insight Survey

Is SA's healthcare getting better?

Insight Survey 28 Aug 2017

Salaries eat into provincial public health budgets

Salaries eat into provincial public health budgets

23 Aug 2017

Livingstone Hospital in Port Elizabeth. Photo: Bhekisisa/Oupa Nkosi

Tax snag leaves cancer patients in the lurch

15 Aug 2017

Cecilia Makhiwane Hospital. Picture: Daily Dispatch

Attack on doctor sparks security concerns

14 Aug 2017

Legal barriers to fast tracking HIV/TB response in Africa

Legal barriers to fast tracking HIV/TB response in Africa

4 Aug 2017

Climate change set to increase air pollution deaths by hundreds of thousands by 2100

Climate change set to increase air pollution deaths by hundreds of thousands by 2100

Guang Zeng and Jason West 1 Aug 2017

Dr Rufaro Chatora, WHO country representative

How will private healthcare evolve under UHC?

Nicci Botha 27 Jul 2017

NHLS proposes revised salary offer

NHLS proposes revised salary offer

26 Jul 2017

UHC lessons from Obamacare

UHC lessons from Obamacare

Nicci Botha 24 Jul 2017

FMF questions NHI financing model

FMF questions NHI financing model

20 Jul 2017

Pre-NHI forum to take on medical aid graft

Pre-NHI forum to take on medical aid graft

19 Jul 2017

Dr Precious Matsoso, director general, South African National Department of Health

NHI starts with the children

18 Jul 2017

Photo: Africa Health Placements

Thousands of foreign doctors working in rural SA

18 Jul 2017

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general: World Health Organisation

Funding and security are key to global health

11 Jul 2017

Experts say bird flu not a threat to humans

Kgaugelo Masweneng 7 Jul 2017

'Fire thousands of nurses who cheated'

'Fire thousands of nurses who cheated'

6 Jul 2017

Photo: Health News NG

Will you have a medical aid under NHI?

LAURA LOPEZ GONZALEZ 5 Jul 2017

Entrepreneurs challenge transferable human disease with innovative water and sanitation solution

Entrepreneurs challenge transferable human disease with innovative water and sanitation solution

Godfrey Sono 12 Jun 2017

Photo: Red Cross Children's Trust

NHI should focus on the poor

12 Jun 2017

Probe into attempted sale of med school spaces

Probe into attempted sale of med school spaces

5 Jun 2017

Reviewing freedom of choice, as plain packaging tobacco rules considered

Reviewing freedom of choice, as plain packaging tobacco rules considered

Martin van Staden 31 May 2017