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Members of the Civil Protection, a local community-based team that works to help mitigate the spread of the Ebola virus and ensure burials happen safely and quickly, wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), carry a wooden coffin before loading the body of an unidentified man, who, according to his family, died of Ebola, as they attend to retrieve it from his house, as aid agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo. Image credit: Reuters/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere/File Photo

Infectious Diseases

DRC’s Ebola outbreak has the potential to become a global pandemic. How to make sure it doesn’t

Jia B. Kangbai 14 Sep 2026

Image supplied.

Medtech

AI Diagnostics lands R85m to roll out AI-powered TB screening tool

16 Apr 2026

Public Health

Telling people to use antibiotics responsibly isn’t enough. What will work instead

Marina Joubert 22 Dec 2025

Cape Town startup eFama wins top prize in Meta AI accelerator

Awards

Cape Town startup eFama wins top prize in Meta AI accelerator

5 Nov 2025

Thousands thrive through the Social Employment Fund

NGO, NPO & Social Enterprise

Thousands thrive through the Social Employment Fund

Thula Zondi, Issued by The Social Employment Fund 4 Nov 2025

Image credit: on Pexels

Mental health

Why 92% of mentally ill South Africans don't receive treatment

17 Sep 2025

Healthcare

Africa’s healthcare funding crisis: 3 strategies to manage deadly diseases

Francisca Mutap 24 Apr 2025

Source: Supplied. Dr. Ricardo Baptista Leite, CEO: HealthAI.

Healthcare

The rise of AI in LMICs: A new era for global healthcare

Ricardo Baptista Leite 17 Mar 2025

Mental health

Mental health and motherhood: South Africa now has treatment guidelines, the trick will be to make them work

Simone Honikman, Saleha Suleman and Donela Besada 30 Dec 2024

Beyond funding, here’s what the social sector needs right now

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Beyond funding, here’s what the social sector needs right now

Issued by Next Generation 12 Dec 2024

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

Labour Law & Unions

Community health workers picket outside Labour Court

Silver Sibiya 30 Oct 2024

Source: The Rural Healthcare Advocacy Project.

Healthcare

A holistic approach will build a stronger rural healthcare system

12 Jul 2024

Image supplied. Health workers conduct Hepatitis test during the celebration of World Hepatitis Day at Remera health centre

PR & Communications

#WPRD2023: Rwanda harnesses PR in the fight against NCD

17 Jul 2023

Image source: © Luca Bertolli –

Occupational Health & Safety

Deadline for submissions on protection of community health workers extended

7 Feb 2023

Workers from public sector unions affiliated to three federations marched to the National Treasury in Tshwane on Tuesday demanding that the government revise its 3% wage increase. Photo: Chris Gilili / GroundUp

Labour Law & Unions

Public sector workers call on government to return to negotiating table

Chris Gilili, Thamsanqa Mbovane and Joseph Chirume 23 Nov 2022

An arbitrator appointed by the Public Health and Social Development Sectoral Bargaining Council has dismissed Nehawu’s bid to have community health workers permanently employed by the state. Archive photo: Thamsanqa Mbovane

Labour Law

Community health workers: arbitrator rules against Nehawu

12 Nov 2021

Source: ©National Department of Health

Covid-19

#VoomaVaccination: Vaccinate this weekend

1 Oct 2021

Source: ©The Global Fund. A march through Agogo town in Ghana to educate citizens on malaria

HIV/AIDS

Covid-19's adverse impact on HIV, TB and malaria programmes

8 Sep 2021

Increasing vaccination calls for a targeted approach. Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Covid-19

South Africans are keener to get vaccinated. But many still need to be convinced

15 Jul 2021

Public Health

Healthcare in South Africa: how inequity is contributing to inefficiency

Russell Rensburg 7 Jul 2021

The art of living and dying: A partnership story

Palliative care

The art of living and dying: A partnership story

Issued by MANGO-OMC 6 May 2021

“We saw patients dying for avoidable reasons. They were dying because masks that came loose were not being replaced,” says MSF Covid-19 intervention nursing activities manager, Caroline Masunda. Chris Allan

Covid-19

Small things can save lives: coping with Covid-19 in resource-scarce hospitals

Gilles van Cutsem 2 Mar 2021

During the Covid-19 pandemic, WHO is supporting the Ghana Health Service in their efforts to continue providing essential medical services to the population at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Ghana. Photo: WHO / Blink Media - Nana Kofi Acquah

Covid-19

5 quick wins to re-invent Africa's health systems

Rachel Ndirangu & Rosemarie Muganda-Onyando 23 Oct 2020

Child mortality rates in the country are high. John Fredricks/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Medtech

How smartphones could help improve child health in Malawi

Griphin Baxter Chirambo et al 6 Oct 2020

Suspended Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku

Public Health

Gauteng community health workers still waiting for full pay

Zoë Postman 25 Sep 2020

UCT GSB's e-Track programme takes 9 local startups to the next level

SMEs

UCT GSB's e-Track programme takes 9 local startups to the next level

Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business 8 Sep 2020

Masked Heroes campaign delivers PPE to community-based organisations

Health & Social Welfare

Masked Heroes campaign delivers PPE to community-based organisations

4 Aug 2020

The township of Khayelitsha in Cape Town. South Africa has adopted First World Covid-19 responses for Third World reality.

Covid-19

South Africa is failing on Covid-19 because its leaders want to emulate the First World

Steven Friedman 17 Jul 2020

In the short term, South Africa has enough beds. Getty Images

Covid-19

South Africa sets aside more money for Covid-19 but lacks a spending strategy

Alex van den Heever 30 Jun 2020

New healthbot launched for high-risk patients

Covid-19

New healthbot launched for high-risk patients

26 Jun 2020

A child receives a vaccine against Ebola from a nurse in Goma on August 7, 2019. AUGUSTIN WAMENYA/AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19

The coping mechanisms the DRC is putting in place as it faces Ebola, measles and Covid-19

Yap Boum 23 Jun 2020

UCT GSB Solution Space, backed by MTN Group, selects 10 startups to join 12-week Venture Exploitation Programme

How To Start Up

UCT GSB Solution Space, backed by MTN Group, selects 10 startups to join 12-week Venture Exploitation Programme

Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business 28 May 2020

Ebrahim Wajoodien

Covid-19

#OnTheFrontLine: Pharmacist at the heart of innovation

20 May 2020

And then everything changed

Tourism & Travel

And then everything changed

Eugene Yiga 8 May 2020

A community health worker carries a box of protection masks in Dakar on April 16, 2020. JOHN WESSELS/AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19

Community health workers are crucial to pandemic response. How to support them

Anatole Manzi 29 Apr 2020

Distribution

Uber adapts technology to offer delivery solution for businesses

23 Apr 2020

Community transmission levels to next steps & the lockdown

Covid-19

The unanswered questions after Mkhize's team's excellent presentations

Alex Welte 15 Apr 2020

Global Citizen, WHO to present star-studded event, One World: Together At Home

Music

Global Citizen, WHO to present star-studded event, One World: Together At Home

14 Apr 2020

The links between people, animals and the environment call for a new approach to health. Shutterstock

Education & Training

Rwanda is training health workers for an interconnected world

Phaedra Henley 24 Feb 2020

Africa is way behind the curve in managing heart disease: here's a new approach

Noncommunicable diseases

Africa is way behind the curve in managing heart disease: here's a new approach

Martin Heine 13 Feb 2020

Child healthcare remains uneven in South Africa and varies between provinces and districts. Shutterstock

Paediatrics

How South Africa can build a child-centred healthcare system

Maylene Shung-King 12 Dec 2019

Why every business should say 'yes' to tackling the youth employability challenge

Youth Employment

Why every business should say 'yes' to tackling the youth employability challenge

Issued by SAICA 4 Nov 2019

A community health worker screening a child’s hearing in Cape Town. Ora Buerkli

Medtech

We used smartphones to screen young children for vision and hearing loss

De Wet Swanepoel 14 Oct 2019

Only one third of women in Madagascar get prenatal care in the first trimester. Shutterstock

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Madagascar trial: how a simple pregnancy test can change lives

Alison B Comfort 3 Oct 2019

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Public Health

Lessons from Rwanda on how trust can help repair a broken health system

Agnes Binagwaho 2 Oct 2019

Rural healthcare services are best supported by mid-level workers. Shutterstock

Public Health

Mid-level workers: Africa's unsung health heroes need more support

Ian Couper 17 Sep 2019

A community care worker providing treatment to a TB patient at her home. Wikkicommons/Stherere23

NHI

Rebuilding health systems from the bottom up: a South African case study

Helen Schneider 12 Sep 2019

Image: World Health Organisation

HIV/AIDS

Malawi races towards global HIV targets

WATIPASO MZUNGU 14 Aug 2019

Integrated approach needed to aid conservation, health

Sustainable Farming

Integrated approach needed to aid conservation, health

21 Jun 2019