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SAHIA to host Clinical Coding Symposium in October to advance data-driven healthcare in SA

SAHIA to host Clinical Coding Symposium in October to advance data-driven healthcare in SACommunikay

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Nigerian nurses end 7-day 'warning strike'

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Facebook wants to stop spreading fake news about vaccines

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Dedicated cannabis expo set for Cape Town in April

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Allison Webel 8 Mar 2019

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Gauteng Health signs MoU with medical aid schemes

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Cape Town health leader chosen as among 100 most impactful health leaders on global list

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COHSASA 4 Mar 2019

Latest accreditations awarded to healthcare facilities by The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (NPC)

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Private healthcare loses more than R22bn a year to fraud, waste

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Nearly half of childhood cancers worldwide are undiagnosed

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Kelly du Plessis, CEO: Rare Diseases SA

NHI is an opportunity to access orphan drugs

28 Feb 2019

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Two new rural clinics open in Eastern Cape

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YouTube pulls ads on anti-vax channels

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Why sleep-deprived employees are costing the country billions

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Grant aims at improving public health supply chains in Africa

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Facebook wants to stop spreading fake news about vaccines

Facebook wants to stop spreading fake news about vaccines

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Dedicated cannabis expo set for Cape Town in April

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Health workers in Liberia at the height of the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak. Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA

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Experts fear that Uganda’s efforts to eliminate graft in its health care system are not sustainable. Suuba Trust/Flickr

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Heather Marquette & Caryn Peiffer 1 Mar 2019

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