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Eastern Cape floods cause R5bn in damage – health facilities among worst hit

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Govt launches Mpox vaccination drive following more cases

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Mandela Day challenge: Ensure healthcare dignity for allTania Joffe

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Resilient, equitable healthcare demands smart integrationDr Katlego Mothudi

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Sort out EMS shortages or face medical malpractice claims

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Govt launches Mpox vaccination drive following more cases

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DoH to tackle staff shortages

12 Jul 2019

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NHI Bill approved for submission to Parliament

11 Jul 2019

A health worker administers the Ebola vaccine. EPA-EFE

How the DRC's Ebola crisis has led to children dying from measles

Benjamin Kagina 10 Jul 2019

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South Africa's healthcare system lacks real data

9 Jul 2019

Ambulances and emergency vehicles parked at Edendale Hospital look good, but hardly any are operational. Photo: Nompendulo Ngubane

Emergency workers sit around all day because there are no ambulances

Nompendulo Ngubane 9 Jul 2019

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Cuban-trained doctors urged to drive change in SA

8 Jul 2019

Dr Anuschka Coovadia is the head of healthcare for Africa at KPMG

Change across healthcare ecosystems in Africa

Anuschka Coovadia 5 Jul 2019

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Ambitious plans to vaccinate more than a million against cholera

4 Jul 2019

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Why Nigeria's doctors are leaving, and how the problem can be fixed

Olayinka Stephen 2 Jul 2019

Health Minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize

New minister promises NHI delivery

27 Jun 2019

The Department of Health in Limpopo says is no money to hire about 400 nurses who fully qualified in January this year. Photo: Bernard Chiguvare

400 newly qualified nurses without jobs in Limpopo

Bernard Chiguvare 24 Jun 2019

Doctors and nurses were held at gunpoint to stop giving patients treatment. (Paul Botes)

Hospitals close in Mpumalanga as doctors and nurses fear for their safety

Nelisiwe Msomi 19 Jun 2019

There’s a lack of research that deals specifically with conditions in African countries. Shutterstock

Africa needs to up its research game to fight non-communicable diseases

Andre Pascal Kengne, Elvis Banboye Kidzeru & Muki Shey 19 Jun 2019

South Africa should learn from Brazil about how to tackle 'hidden hunger'

South Africa should learn from Brazil about how to tackle 'hidden hunger'

Brittany Kesselman 19 Jun 2019

#CannesLions2019: Health & Wellness and Pharma shortlists

#CannesLions2019: Health & Wellness and Pharma shortlists

16 Jun 2019

The links between stress, digestion and nutrition

The links between stress, digestion and nutrition

Association for Dietetics in South Africa 14 Jun 2019

DoH blames ARV supply issues on global shortage

DoH blames ARV supply issues on global shortage

12 Jun 2019

South Africa has the world’s highest AIDS burden. Shutterstock

Adherence is delaying HIV elimination targets. What's needed to break the cycle

Michelle Moorhouse & Willem Daniel Francois Venter 11 Jun 2019

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Hospital-acquired infections in SA hospitals are on the rise, especially in children

11 Jun 2019

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Decolonising healthcare

6 Jun 2019

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Chronic diseases and their impact on the economy

5 Jun 2019

Drone to deliver life-saving blood

Drone to deliver life-saving blood

3 Jun 2019

New Health Minister, Zweli Mkhize (David Harrison)

Politics & power: Why Zweli Mkhize may be a new dawn for health in SA - or not?

Mia Malan & Laura Lopez Gonzalez 31 May 2019

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#AfricaMonth: Re-envisioning Africa's healthcare system

31 May 2019

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GBS rapid test improves maternal health in the developing world

29 May 2019

The bushes surrounding the clinic in Buntingville are so overgrown that the clinic looks disused. But it is used, and it’s badly under-resourced. Photo: Yamkela Ntshongwana

Nurses in village clinic buy medical essentials with their own money

Yamkela Ntshongwana 29 May 2019

Former head of the Gauteng department of health Barney Selebano (pictured) may lose his license to practise medicine after an inqury into his involvement in the Life Esidimeni deaths in September. (Joyrene Kramer, Section27)

Whatever happened to the doctors & nurses involved in the #LifeEsidimeni tragedy

Nelisiwe Msomi 27 May 2019

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#AfricaMonth: Saving trauma patients

24 May 2019

Can precision health transform primary care? Look to Stanford's Humanwide pilot

Can precision health transform primary care? Look to Stanford's Humanwide pilot

Lloyd Minor 23 May 2019

Health workers burying a child who died of Ebola in the DRC’s North Kivu province. Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/EPA

Radical ideas are needed to break the DRC's Ebola outbreak. Here are some

Mosoka Fallah 23 May 2019

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