Partnership shows new ways to support health
The signing of a social compact for health improvement between 23 private sector health companies and the national Department of Health last week is historic and over-shadows the differences that exist...
View ArticleHIV patients stranded as PEPFAR funds dry up
Hope for Life provides various HIV-related services, including antiretroviral treatment and home-based care to the Winterveld community. ‘The Gauteng Department of Health at the northern sub-district...
View ArticleZuma speaks on Health
Honourable Members,Five years ago, South Africa had such a low life expectancy that experts suggested that by 2015, our life expectancy would have been exactly where it was in 1955.It was with good...
View ArticleBudget: Focus on NHI
Health has been allocated a budget of R133.6-billion in the Budget – R48.8-bn for district, R26.4bn for provincial, and R18.9bn for central health services. The focus on NHI was welcomed, but critics...
View ArticleGauteng patient: Five weeks of hell and then death
A young doctor, who shared Patient CZ’s case timeline, has left the public sector, and is now doing sessions in the private sector. ‘It is soul destroying. One takes the death very personally,’...
View ArticleIndia court ruling significant for SA
The ruling, announced on Monday in Delhi, has great significance for South Africa and other countries with high prevalence of HIV and TB, where access to newer and affordable drugs is crucial. In...
View ArticleMadiba’s neighbours are worst off
OR Tambo district in the Eastern Cape home ranked bottom of the 52 districts when measuring the state of health in accordance with a set of indicators. It has the worst rate of newborn deaths in the...
View ArticleGlobal Fund: Invest now or pay forever
The Global Fund is determined to accelerate the gains achieved in recent years against AIDS, TB and malaria through strategic investment in programs that can save millions of lives and tens of billions...
View ArticleRoadmap to tackle newborn deaths
While South Africa is one of the countries showing sterling outcomes in reducing the under-five mortality rate (overwhelmingly due to the success of the programme which prevents the HIV-positive mother...
View ArticleMotsoaledi: Budgeting for health
Scholars will receive the HPV vaccine as part of government's School Health Programme from February next year, health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi announced in his budget speech. Read the full speech...
View ArticleHow South Africa’s fight against HIV stacks up
Treatment About 2.5 million people in South Africa are on HIV treatment, making the country’s public HIV treatment programme the world’s largest. The UNAIDS report lauds government’s recent tender that...
View ArticleHIV in children halved – UNAIDS
These are some of the “striking gains” announced in the Global report on HIV/AIDS 2013, released by the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS), today. AIDS deaths have also dropped...
View ArticleBooklet: Budget Justice
In the booklet’s chapter on health budgets, the author outlines historic trends and current deficits. The chapter also looks at the costs of the country’s private health care system and barriers to its...
View ArticleZuma asked to make China pay
This call was made at the opening of the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA) this weekend by Robert Soundre, chairperson of ICASA and of the Society for AIDS in Africa. Soundre...
View ArticleResearch: Trends in national, provincial health and HIV budgets in South Africa
Authors argue that national spending on HIV and AIDS in South Africa continues to show a strong public commitment to funding the HIV response. This is particularly evident given the rising allocations...
View ArticleMillions of rands to go towards new vaccines, medicines
The MRC will combine Gates funding with that from the departments of science and technology as well as health. “The future is bright for science in South Africa,” said Dr Trevor Mundel from the Bill...
View ArticleResearch: The politics of transition and the economics of HIV
According to the report’s author, PEPFAR is currently managing the largest transition of a global health programme in history. The foreign assistance body is withdrawing direct staff and HIV treatment...
View ArticleNational Treasury could be called in to fund NHLS directly
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s latest budget speech alluded to changes in NHLS funding. Early this week, South African newspapers reported that the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health owed the NHLS...
View ArticleSouth Africa to move to earlier HIV treatment
The South African government plans to introduce HIV treatment for all HIV-positive children under the age of 15 regardless of CD4 count (file photo) “We are very serious about it – we have always taken...
View ArticleDocuments: Market inquiry into private healthcare
On 6 January 2014, South Africa’s Competition Commission began a market inquiry, or investigation, into the private health sector following concerns about the high price of health care in the sector....
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