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ELLY IRVING
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni's announced in his Budget Speech that the Health Promotion Levy (HPL) - aka sugar tax - will be hiked from 2,1 cents to 2,21 cents per gram of sugar per 100ml... read
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DANIEL MCLAREN
Legal claims against the department now amount to more than half of some provincial health budgets. Less money now will only mean more claims later...read
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RUSSELL RENSBURG
It's a new year but the same headline-grabbing story: Qualified doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other healthworkers sitting idle with the kind of degrees we typically think would be immune to economic downturns...read
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HIV/AIDS
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ISSUED BY CIPLA
Cipla, South Africa's third largest pharmaceutical manufacturer, has been awarded a share of the South African Government's National ARV tender for TEE and TLD... Read
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Infectious Diseases
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OYEWALE TOMORI
The first case of Lassa fever in Nigeria was recorded in 1969. A zoonotic disease endemic to West Africa, the disease was named after the town in Nigeria where the first case occurred... Read
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Oncology
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VIKASH SEWRAM
Most cancers can now be detected early. This hasn't always been the case... Read
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Paediatrics
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PETER MACHARIA & EMELDA OKIRO
The number of children who die before reaching their fifth birthday is closely monitored as a marker of social well-being and national development. Read
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Public Health
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The Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM) has been awarded a grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with the aim at improving public health supply chains in Africa. Read
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Women's Health
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KATHRYN DOVEL, MORNA CORNELL, SARA YEATMAN & STEPH
Policymakers, donors and international agencies have, for decades, the need to prioritise women's health services - for their own health as well as their children's... Read
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ELAINE WANG
There has been an increase in interest by multinationals in the deployment of local cloud data centres in South Africa over the past year... Read
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