Health+workers | Bizcommunity

Results for health+workers

News

Healthcare

SA doctors make up to 40 times more than those in Kenya and Nigeria

Zano Kunene 5 Apr 2024

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

Kenyan doctors strike over pay and training extends into third week

George Obulutsa and Duncan Miriri 3 Apr 2024

Healthcare

Unemployed doctors march to Union Buildings

Silver Sibiya 28 Feb 2024

Healthcare

Worst of hiring freeze over, Western Cape health department assures health workers

19 Feb 2024

Healthcare

Officials raise alarm over hiring freeze at Western Cape’s largest hospitals

Daniel Steyn 2 Feb 2024

Healthcare

5 ways Google Health is using AI in Africa

24 Oct 2023

Source: Nobel Prize/Youtube

Healthcare

Nobel Prize for mRNA pioneers amid jab controversy

Katja Hamilton 6 Oct 2023

Healthcare

Exodus of SA doctors and nurses places more responsibility on pharmacists

29 Sep 2023

Healthcare

Latest stats spark urgent $45m long Covid response

27 Sep 2023

Lung cancer: Global transformative action needed

Healthcare

Lung cancer: Global transformative action needed

Esra Erkomay 3 Aug 2023

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

Marketing & Media

#WPRD2023: Rwanda harnesses PR in the fight against NCD

17 Jul 2023

Source: @WHOSouthSudan

Finance

Banks and WHO launch investment platform to strengthen primary healthcare services

26 Jun 2023

Source: Daktaridudu/Wikimedia Commons)

Healthcare

Namibia declares outbreak of Crimean-Congo fever after patient dies

Nyasha Nyaungwa 25 May 2023

Source: Supplied. Mary Rodgers, a virus hunter and scientist at Abbott who works with the Abbott Pandemic Defense Coalition.

Healthcare

#HIVToday: Abbott's top scientist speaks to staying one step ahead of a constantly mutating virus

Katja Hamilton 28 Apr 2023

SA NPO Reach Digital Health wins international Skoll Award

ESG & Sustainability

SA NPO Reach Digital Health wins international Skoll Award

11 Apr 2023

Source: iStock. Police cleared burning tyres at Tshepong Hospital in Klerksdorp on Tuesday (7 March 2023) as Nehawu members picketed outside the hospital.

Healthcare

Tensions mount as Nehawu strike intensifies

Katja Hamilton 8 Mar 2023

Healthcare

Antenatal care essential for protecting the health of women and their unborn children

14 Feb 2023

Image source: © Luca Bertolli –

HR & Management

Deadline for submissions on protection of community health workers extended

7 Feb 2023

Source: Supplied. Juliet Houghton, the chief executive officer of the Southern African HIV Clinician’s Society.

Healthcare

#HIVToday: SA prepares to roll out new HIV treatment plan for children

Katja Hamilton 14 Mar 2023

Source: DynaMedex.

Healthcare

SA measles outbreak of concern, NICD warns as case surge hits 80% worldwide

Katja Hamilton 13 Jan 2023

Source: Reuters. Uganda health minister Jane Ruth Aceng addresses the media after receiving a shipment of 1,200 doses for Ebola vaccine candidates set to be used in a clinical trial at the National Medical Stores in Entebbe, Uganda, 8 December, 2022.

Healthcare

Uganda declares itself Ebola-free after swiftly turning tide on outbreak

11 Jan 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

HR & Management

Public sector workers call on government to return to negotiating table

Chris Gilili, Thamsanqa Mbovane and Joseph Chirume 23 Nov 2022

Source: Reuters. Zimbabwean medical workers sit outside Sally Mugabe Hospital during a strike by state doctors and nurses to press for higher pay, in Harare, Zimbabwe, June 20, 2022.

Healthcare

Over 4,000 Zimbabwean doctors and nurses left the country in 2021

Nyasha Chingono 21 Nov 2022

Source: Supplied. Myrna Sachs, head of AlexForbes Health Management.

Finance

South Africa sees increase in insurance claims by incapacitated employees

6 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni attends a news conference.

Healthcare

Ebola kills doctor in Uganda, first health worker killed in latest outbreak

Elias Biryabarema 3 Oct 2022

Meet Tanzania's soon-to-be first developmentalist

Healthcare

Meet Tanzania's soon-to-be first developmentalist

Issued by The Children’s Hospital Trust 23 Aug 2022

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

Zimbabwe measles outbreak blamed on sect gatherings kills 157 children

Nyasha Chingono 17 Aug 2022

Healthcare

Caring for our young doctors is good medicine

Dr Brenda Kubheka 8 Jul 2022

Why should youth have medical aid?

Healthcare

Why should youth have medical aid?

Issued by Stone 4 Jul 2022

Source: Mkhuseli Sizani. Nurses and nursing assistants at six hospitals and clinics in the Raymond Mhlaba local municipality, Eastern Cape protesting, demanding to be paid a R1,200 rural allowance.

Healthcare

Over 500 Eastern Cape health workers down tools

Mkhuseli Sizani 29 Jun 2022

Healthcare

'I Am' movement of SA health workers throws down the gauntlet to health minister and Gauteng premier

24 Jun 2022

Image source: Sasha Kim from

Healthcare

Kenya puts in place tougher labelling for baby foods, bottles, teats and pacifiers

Antonina Mutoro 14 Apr 2022

Impact of Russia-Ukraine conflict on vaccine supply 'unclear'

Logistics & Transport

Impact of Russia-Ukraine conflict on vaccine supply 'unclear'

Dr Matshidiso Moeti 4 Mar 2022

Source: Supplied. Baby Abdullah born to Nastehoshuute at Heldeberg Hospital.

Healthcare

New Year's Day welcomes in 175 bundles of joy

3 Jan 2022

Ghana airport to fine airlines that bring unvaccinated passengers

Tourism & Travel

Ghana airport to fine airlines that bring unvaccinated passengers

14 Dec 2021

Healthcare

Covid-19 threatens gains made in HIV/Aids fight

Katja Hamilton 1 Dec 2021

Source: Supplied

Healthcare

Aviro Health launches Pocket Clinic

3 Dec 2021

NWU awards honorary doctorate to politician Dr Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi

Education

NWU awards honorary doctorate to politician Dr Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi

Issued by North-West University (NWU) 22 Nov 2021

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

Legal

Community health workers: arbitrator rules against Nehawu

12 Nov 2021

Marketing & Media

Why the handling of a false South African news report about 10 babies has set off alarm bells

Anton Harber 5 Nov 2021

Engen provides oxygen tanks to assist truck drivers in the fight against Covid

Logistics & Transport

Engen provides oxygen tanks to assist truck drivers in the fight against Covid

18 Oct 2021

Source: ©Cathy Yeulet

Healthcare

Children between 12-17 to get one Pfizer vaccine

15 Oct 2021

Source: ©National Department of Health

Healthcare

#VoomaVaccination: Vaccinate this weekend

1 Oct 2021

Source: ©Elvira Koneva

Healthcare

Compulsory Covid-19 vaccines?

28 Sep 2021

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

Healthcare

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

8 Sep 2021

A health worker receives a vaccine against Ebola at a hospital after a case of Ebola was confirmed in Abidjan, Ivory Coast 16 August 2021. Reuters/Luc Gnago

Healthcare

Ivory Coast begins Ebola vaccinations after case confirmed in Abidjan

Loucoumane Coulibaly 17 Aug 2021

Groote Schuur is one of South Africa’s biggest teaching hospitals. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks

Healthcare

Covid-19: A glimpse behind the scenes at Groote Schuur Hospital

James Stent 12 Aug 2021