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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

Meningitis virus

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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4 new WHO goodwill ambassadors appointed

21 May 2019

Getting South Africans to buy into the next big thing in medicine

Getting South Africans to buy into the next big thing in medicine

Nelisiwe Msomi 17 May 2019

Sapics 2019 puts the spotlight on healthcare supply chain challenges

Sapics 2019 puts the spotlight on healthcare supply chain challenges

10 May 2019

Comprehensive overview of medical malpractice insurance in SA

Comprehensive overview of medical malpractice insurance in SA

Donald Dinnie 3 May 2019

A University of Cape Town medical student doing yoga for a project that draws on ideas from medical and health humanities. Third Year Yoga SSM

New ways of thinking on health, arts and humanities are emerging in Africa

Carla Tsampiras & Nolwazi Mkhwanazi 3 May 2019

A South African study found that most doctors and nurses prescribed antibiotics for a viral infection even when patients discouraged them from doing so. Photo via Flickr by Chilanga Cement (CC BY 2.0)

UN report warns of disastrous consequences of antibiotic resistance

30 Apr 2019

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