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Public Health in the News

The Latest News listing comprises the most recent media coverage compiled from sources around the world on key developments in health systems implementation and research.

2021

UN-backed show highlights lifesaving benefit of ‘edutainment’ in South Africa
2021-10-20
UN News
Researchers identify the genetic changes responsible for drug resistance in tuberculosis
2021-10-19
News Medical
Breathing spreads Tuberculosis bacteria, says SA research team
2021-10-19
EWN
AAP, AACAP, CHA declare national emergency in children’s mental health
2021-10-19
AAP News
WHO’s 7 policy recommendations on building resilient health systems
2021-10-19
World Health Organization
End TB clinical trial for multidrug-resistant TB completes enrolment
2021-10-18
Médecins Sans Frontières
NGOs scramble to dampen COVID-19's impact on people living with HIV
2021-10-18
Thomas Reuters Foundation News
‘Delay, dilute, delegitimise’: How the food industry shapes what you eat — and what you weigh
2021-10-15
Daily Maverick
Help A Sister Out: Maternity bag drive for those without
2021-10-13
Health-E News
Mental Health: Grief, loss – we are all traumatised, says psychiatrist on the COVID-19 frontlines
2021-10-13
Spotlight
South Africa’s mental health epidemic: Love Don’t Live here Anymore
2021-10-12
Maverick Citizen
LIFE ESIDIMENI INQUEST: A Recap on its progress and what to expect
2021-10-06
Spotlight News
Thyroid cancer: #CheckYourNeck warns dad-of-three
2021-10-06
Health-E News
Pandemic impact ‘tip of the iceberg’ after years of neglecting child mental health
2021-10-05
World Health Organization
WHO prioritizes access to diabetes and cancer treatments in new Essential Medicines Lists
2021-10-01
World Health Organization
'Funeral home' ad spreads message for the unvaccinated
2021-09-22
CNN
WATCH: Admit it, you pee in the shower - but this doctor says it’s a bad idea
2021-09-28
IOL news
A country on life support: deteriorating medical care in Afghanistan
2021-09-28
BMJ Opinion
Younger men being diagnosed with prostate cancer
2021-09-27
The Citizen
Partnering to get back on track to end AIDS by 2030
2021-09-24
UNAIDS
Interview: Kenneth Jacobs, new chair of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Health
2021-09-22
Spotlight
Stunted growth: Prioritise investment in nutrition, or risk robbing Africa of its future
2021-09-21
Maverick Citizen
The sugar tax is working. Now double it.
2021-09-21
Bhekisisa
Cancer in children: Early diagnosis, treatment key to survival
2021-09-20
Health-E News
The Children’s Amendment Bill still leaves many children behind
2021-09-18
Mail & Guardian
Health standards body says South Africa still far from providing safe healthcare for all
2021-09-17
Dispatch Live
Forty years of campaigning for equal access to life-saving medicines
2021-09-17
UNAIDS
Christiana community concerned over access to health services after hospital fire
2021-09-16
Spotlight News
New parents hit by lockdown blues, UCT study finds
2021-09-16
Sowetan Live
Unemployment: SA youth battle country’s ‘other pandemic’
2021-09-10
Health-E News
SA doctors say admitting errors without fear of blame is key to improving patient safety — survey
2021-09-15
Sunday Times
Launch of HEARING screening: considerations for recommendations
2021-09-15
World Health Organization
BMA drops opposition to assisted dying and adopts neutral stance
2021-09-13
The Guardian
Scientists Claim Overeating Is Not the Primary Cause of Obesity – Point to More Effective Weight Loss Strategies
2021-09-13
American Society for Nutrition
NHS begins world's largest trial of blood test for more than 50 types of cancer
2021-09-13
Sky News
World failing to address dementia challenge
2021-09-02
World Health Organization
Health Hub | Why is J&J moving at a snail’s pace with our vaccine deliveries and how does an HIV prevention pill work?
2021-09-10
Bhekisisa
As a virologist I’m shocked my work has been hijacked by anti-vaxxers
2021-09-07
The Guardian
Can HIV lessons tell us why SA men are so slow to get a COVID jab?
2021-09-08
Bhekisisa
In-depth: What happens to people in SA who have rare diseases?
2021-09-06
Spotlight
Doctors and nurses are most trusted sources for vaccine information
2021-09-06
Mail & Guardian
What will it take to bring HIV-prevention injections to SA’s clinics?
2021-09-01
Daily Maverick
‘We are in uncharted waters — but we will get out of it working together,’ says Health Minister Joe Phaahla
2021-08-30
Daily Maverick
The Killing Doesn’t Stop During South Africa’s Women’s Month
2021-08-30
Human Rights Watch
Northern Cape government yet to decide on fate of senior health officials facing fraud charges
2021-08-25
Spotlight
Opinion: Transparency and action urgently needed on Eastern Cape staffing challenges
2021-08-25
Spotlight
More than 700 million people with untreated hypertension
2021-08-25
World Health Organization
A hamburger recipe, vaccine science edition
2021-08-24
Bhekisisa
Dr Michael Mosley: Do CBD products really offer health benefits?
2021-08-24
Science Focus
St Mary’s Hospital urges patients to resume chronic treatment
2021-08-23
Health-E News
TB expert Dr Norbert Ndjeka receives recognition for his work
2021-08-23
Health-E News
Calling catholic bishops to join the movement for cervical cancer elimination in Nigeria
2021-08-23
World Health Organization
How well is SA’s chronic medicines distribution system working?
2021-08-20
Spotlight
Gender-based violence: ‘Time to call out our brothers, friends’
2021-08-19
Health-E News
New series of compounds discovered that could treat parasitic worm disease schistosomiasis
2021-08-18
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Healthcare workers: “We are living in the shadows of death”
2021-08-18
Health-E News
Medicines stockouts once again reported in North West
2021-08-19
Spotlight News
Women in Health: It’s in the genes for Professor Michèle Ramsay
2021-08-16
Spotlight News
A controversial ‘NHI-focused’ change could hit South Africa – as doctors look at leaving
2021-08-16
Business Tech
CANSA seal of recognition aims to promote health living
2021-08-16
Health-E News
Crime in SA | Fake news fuels social media hysteria
2021-08-15
eNCA
Cote d’Ivoire declares first Ebola outbreak in more than 25 years
2021-08-14
World Health Organization
Eradication of pit toilets at Limpopo schools still a pipe dream
2021-08-13
Health-E News
Mpumalanga Health MEC steps in as chronic meds run dry
2021-08-05
Health-E News
It’s time to put children first – from response to recovery
2021-08-04
UCT News
Blow to Health Professions Council as new registrar David Motau faces serious charges
2021-08-04
Maverick Citizen
What they say: Community perspectives on health services in the Eastern Cape
2021-08-03
Spotlight
FIFA launches #ReachOut campaign for better mental health
2021-08-02
World Health Organization
Joint statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore and WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the occasion of World Breastfeeding Week
2021-08-02
World Health Organization
‘Men-only’ spaces could improve prevention of mother-to-child transmission
2021-07-30
Avert
In-depth: SA pharmacists will soon be able to prescribe HIV treatment
2021-07-28
Spotlight
New polling shows HIV stigma still widespread
2021-07-29
National AIDS Trust
Hero Stories | Dr. Themba Moeti’s: We must fight for and invest in health now, to overcome future challenges
2021-07-28
DevelopmentAid
Mental health of queer community at risk as NPO faces closure
2021-07-28
Health-E News
In-depth: SA pharmacists will soon be able to prescribe HIV treatment
2021-07-28
Health24
South Africa’s protests: poverty, inequality and looting
2021-07-27
DevelopmentAid
Public health partnership launched to tackle silent epidemic of hepatitis C
2021-07-27
Médecins Sans Frontières
Team Europe pledges support for eradicate Malaria, an initiative aiming to facilitate the development and production of a highly efficacious malaria vaccine
2021-07-26
European Investment Bank
To Prevent Chronic Illness, Start With Mental Health — The two are inextricably linked
2021-07-24
Medpage Today
African women with diabetes at high risk of cardiovascular disease
2021-07-21
University of Cape Town
Medicine and mayhem: How to restore medical security and supply after the looting
2021-07-20
Maverick Citizen
Opening session of the IAS Conference on HIV Science
2021-07-19
UNAIDS
UN shift on HIV prevention raises hope we can end Aids by 2030 – now we need to turn words into action
2021-07-16
Maverick Citizen
In-depth: What South Africa's power cuts mean for healthcare facilities
2021-07-14
News24
More South Africans willing to be vaccinated
2021-07-15
Health-E News
Guillain-Barré syndrome and the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine: What you should know
2021-07-14
News24
Education Plus launched in response to alarming rates of HIV among adolescent girls and young women in Africa
2021-07-07
Reliefweb
Healthcare in South Africa: how inequity is contributing to inefficiency
2021-07-06
The Conversation
Zim makes progress on TB
2021-07-29
The Herald Zimbabwe
Stark realities face cancer patients at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital despite glimmer of hope reopening brings
2021-07-28
Maverick Citizen
Digital divide in autism technologies
2021-07-25
University of Cape Town
In-depth: The state of congenital syphilis in SA
2021-06-23
Spotlight
Six years after Life Esidimeni, Health Department ‘is short-changing’ mental health services
2021-06-22
Daily Maverick
Rural South Africa has a high burden of undiagnosed non-communicable diseases: Study
2021-06-22
DownToEarth
The importance of young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights to the global HIV response
2021-06-21
UNAIDS
Soaring e-waste affects the health of millions of children, WHO warns
2021-06-15
World Health Organization
Vaccines and children
2021-06-11
World Health Organization
New HIV/AIDS political declaration seeks to end inequalities and get on track to end AIDS by 2030
2021-06-11
World Health Organization
9 massive problems with government’s NHI plans – which still need to be addressed before the end of the year
2021-06-09
Business Tech
South African healthcare company soars after Alzheimer’s drug approval
2021-06-08
Business Tech
In Focus: Global strategy to end Cryptococcal Meningitis in people living with HIV
2021-06-08
Spotlight
This week: A new road-map to an HIV-free world in the next decade
2021-06-07
Maverick Citizen
The end of medical aids in South Africa – and other questions raised around the NHI
2021-06-03
Business Tech
Op-ed: Govt urged to embrace the power of tech in the delivery of primary healthcare for all
2021-06-03
Health-e News
Government to introduce stricter anti-smoking rules for South Africa
2021-06-02
Business Tech
Child Protection Week: Protecting all children living in South Africa
2021-06-02
Health-E News
Poor prognosis: Joburg’s public healthcare is in critical condition
2021-06-27
Daily Maverick
Health professionals are worried that the NHI will become the ‘Eskom’ or ‘SAA’ of healthcare in South Africa
2021-05-27
Business Tech
Doctors have mental health issues too
2021-05-26
Mail & Guardian
Right of reply: Vaccine rollout — it’s not so simple, argues health department
2021-05-26
Daily Maverick
2 000 breast cancer survivors set to benefit from knitted prosthetic breasts
2021-05-26
Health-E News
WHO issues new guidance for research on genetically modified mosquitoes to fight malaria and other vector-borne diseases
2021-05-19
World Health Organization
Obesity in South Africa: Every Body needs Everybody
2021-05-12
News24
Exposing children to smoking is like suffocating them - child health expert
2021-05-12
Times Live
How migration events have dramatically reshaped the genetic landscape of Africa
2021-05-09
Maverick Citizen
Compliance with the Protection of Personal Information Act No. 4 of 2013 (POPIA)
2021-05-03
South African Journal of Science
Black donors needed to help save lives
2021-05-05
Goundup
UN report sounds alarm on acute global shortage of midwives
2021-05-05
United Nations
WHO calls for better hand hygiene and other infection control practices
2021-05-05
World Health Organization
Covid-19 third wave warning for South Africa – what to expect
2021-05-03
BusinessTech
CCMDD: “The right medicine, for the right patient, in the right parcel, in the right place, at the right time.”
2021-05-03
Health-E News
Four factors blocking medicines made in Africa
2021-04-26
Bhekisisa

2018

STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS REVEAL PIVOTAL WORK ON MANAGING TB AND HIV
2018-03-29
Stellenbosch University
Press Release: National Tuberclulosis Prevalence Study Underway
2018-02-05
National Department of Health

2017

Call for Applications for 4th Cohort University of Pretoria ASELPH Fellows program
2017-12-06
University of Pretoria
Outbreak of a food borne disease in South Africa
2017-12-05
National Department of Health
The Paris Statement: HIV Science Matters
2017-07-19
IAS 2017
Remembering Nkosi Johnson
2017-06-01
LinkedIn
Nurse shortage worsened by alarming bureaucratic bungling
2017-06-01
MoneyWeb
Offline: Dear Tedros…
2017-05-29
The Lancet
Sex workers to remain ‘criminals’?
2017-05-29
Health-E News
Three ideas on how the new WHO DG can build health systems from the bottom up
2017-05-26
The Conversation
Malaria count up to 2000 since April
2017-05-25
Health-E News
Tedros' fundraising strategy for WHO, global health
2017-05-25
Who stands for stunted kids and obese adults?
2017-05-22
People still dying from curable diseases — but SA ranks quite high
2017-05-19
Businesslive
KZN traditional healers trained to test and counsel HIV and TB patients
2017-05-18
Health-E News
Aaron Motsoaledi deflects attack by Cosatu on national health scheme
2017-05-17
BD Live
Hawks widen investigation into SA medical school ‘places for sale’
2017-05-17
Medical Brief
CDC modelling study sounds warning on TB in SA
2017-05-17
Medical Brief
Emergency vaccination to curb measles outbreak in Gauteng
2017-05-15
Health-E News
Why the NHI may take softer approach
2017-05-15
BD Live
Trump expands policy that bans US aid for overseas abortion providers
2017-05-15
The Guardian
Survey finds teenage girls do not get pregnant for grants
2017-05-15
BD Live
Many toddlers are falling through SA's vaccination net
2017-05-15
BD Live
The great drugs bungle: How hospital doctors and nurses put kids at risk
2017-05-14
BD Live
Climbdown on medical aids
2017-05-11
Times Live
Improved life expectancy of people living with HIV: who is left behind?
2017-05-10
The Lancet
R14.4 billion for Eastern Cape health
2017-05-10
Health-E News
The heavy impact of urban diets
2017-05-09
Health-E News
No time for emergencies
2017-05-08
Health-E News
Limpopo woman gives birth on the street
2017-05-03
Health-E News
Paying for change? Trial offers cash to parents willing to vaccinate babies
2017-05-03
Bhekisisa
Dry facilities an indictment on our democracy
2017-05-02
Health-E News
Malaria cases rise 50% after delays in spraying
2017-05-02
Business Day
Boko Haram leaves cruel legacy of trauma and starvation
2017-04-25
Bhekisisa
Prevent malaria - save lives: WHO push for prevention on World Malaria Day, 25th April
2017-04-24
WHO
3 African countries chosen to test 1st malaria vaccine
2017-04-24
STAT
How Zambia is beating malaria
2017-04-24
Bhekisisa
KZN health in bad state
2017-04-18
Times Live
Campaign to teach traditional healers how to conduct HIV/Aids tests
2017-04-11
Medical Brief
How to fund a failing health system
2017-04-06
Bhekisisa
Busted: The myths that could be standing between you and the HIV prevention pill
2017-04-05
Bhekisisa
Health department in sick bay: R3.2bn budget shortfall leaves 11.5% of jobs unfilled
2017-04-04
Times Live
The political argument for investing in global health
2017-04-01
The Lancet
How successful were the millennium development goals?
2017-03-30
The Guardian
Committee hears of NHI pilot problems
2017-03-29
Business Day
World TB Day – Launch of online TB Surveillance Dashboard
2017-03-29
Medical Brief
In primary school and pregnant: The shocking numbers
2017-03-27
Times Live
New study helps crack the problem of diagnosing TB in people with HIV
2017-03-24
The Conversation
Latest transmission patterns for drug resistant TB pose a new challenge
2017-03-23
The Conversation
National HIV plan scraps calls to decriminalise drug use
2017-03-21
Bhekisisa
Kenyan medical students are learning through a community outreach model
2017-03-21
The Conversation
Doctors pass the scalpel to nurses in the quest for safer births
2017-03-21
Bhekisisa
Free Zimbabwean contraceptives smuggled for sale in South Africa
2017-03-20
Times Live
The Story Behind the First AIDS Drug
2017-03-19
Time
HPCSA urges residents to report misconduct
2017-03-14
Health-E News
There’s a new killer in town
2017-03-13
Health-E News
Drugmaker to provide new TB drug worth almost half a million for free
2017-03-08
Bhekisisa
Gauteng increases mental health spending after Esidimeni crisis
2017-03-07
Business Day
Full steam ahead for SA’s clinic-on-rails
2017-03-07
Business Day
Radical transformation begins with fixing how we fund healthcare in remote areas
2017-03-02
Bhekisisa
Statistics SA: How South Africans die
2017-03-01
Medical Brief
Big increase in diabetes deaths
2017-03-01
Health-E News
Geographical disparities in HIV prevalence and care among men who have sex with men in Malawi: results from a multisite cross-sectional survey
2017-02-27
The Lancet
South Africa launches clinical trial to cut heart disease in HIV positive people
2017-02-27
The Conversation
The inequality gap and its impact on health
2017-02-27
Health-E News
African app cuts medical costs with community "virtual pharmacy"
2017-02-24
Times Live
Gordhan outlines initial focus of NHI Fund
2017-02-23
Health-E News
Service delivery starts with data. See who's been missing from the spreadsheets
2017-02-22
Bhekisisa
National Health Laboratory Service heads accused of graft
2017-02-22
BD Live
Media Brief - Launch of the South African National HIV Survey (SABSSM V) 2016/2017
2017-02-21
Human Sciences Research Council
How should HIV self-testing services be provided?
2017-02-17
Aidsmap
HST & THE NHRDNo more delays: Accelerating access to medicine
2017-02-17
Health-e News
NHRDUnique case of PrEP failure without drug resistance reported from Amsterdam
2017-02-17
Aidsmap
South Africa: Sexual violence in Platinum Mining Belt a major driver of HIV
2017-02-17
MSF
Potential cure for deadliest form of TB
2017-02-16
Health-e News
CROI 2017: Added support, speed and communication improve HIV service linkage and retention in Mozambique and South Africa
2017-02-16
Sciences Speak Blog
Oral PrEP Works Well in Women With Abnormal Vaginal Microbiota
2017-02-15
POZ
(Preventing) the coming epidemic: HIV in youth
2017-02-15
CRO
A benign circle: how a combination of factors has reduced HIV infections in one of the hardest-hit parts of Africa
2017-02-14
Aidsmap
Vaginal microbiome and susceptibility to HIV
2017-02-14
CRO
Text messaging is associated with improved retention in a clinic-based PrEP program
2017-02-14
CRO
State of the Nation Address 2017
2017-02-09
South African Government
A realist review of mobile phone-based health interventions for non-communicable disease management in sub-Saharan Africa
2017-02-06
BioMed Central
Conspiracy beliefs and knowledge about HIV origins among adolescents in Soweto, South Africa
2017-02-02
PlosOne
SAMA disappointed over Minister’s statements on unemployed doctors
2017-01-24
Medical Chronicle
An evaluation of the competencies of primary health care clinic nursing managers in two South African provinces
2017-01-20
Global Health Action
‘Why do an MPH?’ Motivations and intentions of physicians undertaking postgraduate public health training at the University of Cape Town
2017-01-20
Global Health Action
The feasibility of measuring and monitoring social determinants of health and the relevance for policy and programme – a qualitative assessment of four countries
2017-01-20
Global Health Action
Disclosure of physical, emotional and sexual child abuse, help-seeking and access to abuse response services in two South African Provinces
2017-01-19
Psychology, Health & Medicine
ADVANCE HIV study set to save SA billions
2017-01-17
Health-E News
Personal contact with HIV-positive persons is associated with reduced HIV-related stigma: cross-sectional analysis of general population surveys from 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa
2017-01-10
Journal of the International AIDS Society

2016

Nurse training on contraceptives needed
2016-12-30
Health-E News
Listeriosis: Frequently Asked Questions
2016-12-05
National Institute for Communicable Diseases
Vaccinate to protect against rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs
2016-11-14
R News
Outsourcing: How to reform WHO for the 21st century
2016-09-13
BMJ Global Health
Moms with HIV set to get connected
2016-09-13
Health-e News
United Nations meeting on antimicrobial resistance
2016-09-13
WHO
Strong leadership key to successful NHI
2016-09-05
IOL
Offline: Africa—the incarceration of a continent
2016-09-03
thelancet
Accelerating Universal Health Coverage in Africa
2016-08-31
E-Health news
Millions at risk as deadly fungal infections acquire drug resistance
2016-08-29
The Guardian
HIV effort let down by test shortages, says WHO
2016-08-25
WHO
Takalani Sesame: New project to combat child mortality
2016-08-23
E-Health News
Malnutrition is a leading cause of death in under-fives, but there’s a simple - and free - solution that could save lives
2016-08-18
Bhekisisa
Healthcare report delayed in wait for more data
2016-08-18
DBlive
Funding sought for community healthcare worker policy
2016-08-16
DBlive
Hormonal contraception and the risk of HIV acquisition
2016-08-09
WHO
Ebola, Zika & Zoonotic Disease Threats in Africa
2016-08-04
The Brenthurst Foundation
Family planning is a key development goal that needs greater investment
2016-08-01
The Guardian
Aids research: High risk, top science
2016-07-29
Financial Mail
Next HIV plan needs to be based on latest evidence
2016-07-29
Health-e News
AIDS2016: HIV and hypertension a growing problem
2016-07-22
IOL
AIDS 2016 Daily Review
2016-07-22
IAS
AIDS2016: 20% of adults refuse HIV treatment
2016-07-21
IOL
AIDS2016: Ratchet up efficiency, Gates advises Special Features
2016-07-21
IOL
AIDS2016: How a rural community helps each other stay on HIV treatment
2016-07-21
Bhekisisa
Government launches self-service medicine 'ATMs'
2016-07-20
News24
AIDS 2016 Daily Review
2016-07-20
IAS
AIDS 2016: Daily Review
2016-07-19
IAS
Research charities help marry two major South African HIV/tuberculosis institutes
2016-07-18
Science
AIDS 2016: Daily Review
2016-07-18
International Aids Society
Media Release: International AIDS Conference returns to Durban to define path forward to ending AIDS
2016-07-18
IAS
AIDS2016: Employees, particularly domestic workers, report forced HIV testing
2016-07-16
Bhekisisa
US retracts plan to cut HIV/AIDS funds for SA
2016-07-12
BDlive
Health Systems Global Strategic Plan 2016-2020
2016-07-07
Health Systems Global
NHS to scrap single database of patients' medical details Care.data scheme to close after Fiona Caldicott review calls for tougher measures to keep information confidential
2016-07-06
The Guardian
Pooling of resources for NHI could lower cost of universal access
2016-06-30
Health-e News
Second Durban Declaration
2016-06-30
International AIDS Society
Medical aid board says SA has no choice but to back NHI
2016-06-28
Bhekisisa
South Africa launches national HIV prevention campaign for young women and adolescent girls
2016-06-24
UNAIDS
The 2016 Young Physician Leaders programme -Call for nominations
2016-06-20
iamp
Cancer doctors leading campaign to boost use of HPV vaccine
2016-06-19
Washington Post
The World Could End AIDS if It Tried
2016-06-13
New York Times line News Provider
Billions of rand short for NHI to work
2016-06-10
Financial Mail
WHO validates countries' elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis
2016-06-08
WHO
Significant attrition at each stage of HIV care cascade in South Africa - Over half of HIV-infected men undiagnosed
2016-06-06
AIDSMap
Second Durban Declaration
2016-06-01
International AIDS Society
NHI: More pragmatism and less ideology
2016-05-30
Health-e News
Government hostility towards private healthcare impedes NHI
2016-05-26
BDlive
Virtual GPs' weak pulse
2016-05-25
Times Live
Investing in health is not cheap, but it is not a luxury either
2016-05-25
The Guardian
Is universal access to healthcare possible?
2016-05-24
Bhekisisa
69th World Health Assembly: speakers at high-level side event call for a Fast-Track response to end the AIDS epidemic among women and adolescent girls
2016-05-23
UNAIDS
WHO confirms Zika virus strain imported from the Americas to Cabo Verde
2016-05-20
WHO
The circus is coming to town – end the Rhetoric, start the Revolution
2016-05-19
Daily Maverick
No excuse not to act now to fight drug resistance, say researchers on superbugs
2016-05-19
BDlive
Large-scale HIV vaccine trial to launch in South Africa: NIH-funded study will test safety, efficacy of vaccine regimen
2016-05-18
NIAID
Too much work, too few doctors
2016-05-17
Timeslive
National Health Insurance: Bring in the specialists
2016-05-16
Health E News
Motsoaledi: No more waiting for Aids drugs
2016-05-11
IOL
Sloppy work hinders our healing
2016-05-09
Timeslive
SA still has a way to go in healthcare legislation
2016-05-09
Bizcommunity
Sex work, migration and HIV: South Africa’s health system can – and should – take a lead
2016-05-09
Migration and Health Project
Health-E News: SA’s looming water crisis – the less we have, the dirtier it is
2016-05-08
Daily Maverick
One year into the Zika outbreak: How an obscure disease became a global health emergency
2016-05-05
WHO
HIV/AIDS schemes need more money
2016-05-05
BDlive
KZN Health’s R452m sick leave bill
2016-05-05
Daily News/IoL
Many ills of the public health sector
2016-05-05
IOL
Report: South African Health Review 2016
2016-05-04
Health-e News
SAHR Media Release
2016-05-04
HST
Two health groups to pay record R10m fine for
2016-04-08
BDlive
Two health groups to pay record R10m fine for
2016-04-08
BDlive
Mpumalanga school health programme battles parents
2016-04-07
Health-e News
Banned chemical still used in hospital IVs is linked to attention deficit disorder
2016-04-06
Washington Post
Finance commission seeks clarity on NHI fiscal effects across government levels
2016-04-06
BDlive
Statement: Registration of Unqualified but Experienced Dental Assistants
2016-03-31
Health-e News
Delamanid clinical access programme expected
2016-03-29
Health-e News
Conference Delegates' Sponsorship and Conference Day Rate
2016-03-29
HAT
In Good Faith: Is this healthy competition?
2016-03-24
Financial Mail
Inquiry hears of huge gaps in healthcare regulation
2016-03-22
BDlive
SA testing anti-HIV vaccine
2016-03-17
Times Live
Hospital watchdog lacks power to enforce standards
2016-03-17
BDlive
Report on the South African Health Monitoring Survey: An Integrated Biological and Behavioural Survey among Female Sex Workers, South Africa 2013 - 2014
2016-03-16
Health-e News
Antibiotics becoming ineffective at treating some child infections
2016-03-16
The Guardian
5 things you should know about HIV pre-exposure
2016-03-15
Health-e News
Op-Ed: Coming to the aid of sex workers
2016-03-13
Daily Maverick
Gender and eHealth in Kenya
2016-03-07
Health Systems Global
Five lessons Nigeria learnt when it clamped down on polio
2016-03-03
Bhekisisa
The five principles behind the world’s most efficient health systems
2016-03-01
The Gaurdian
Admin jobs surge in public healthcare
2016-02-29
A global defence system to fight virus threats is urgently needed
2016-02-27
The Guardian
National Health Insurance: A wing and a prayer
2016-02-26
Financial Mail
Health-care Inquiry: Medical aids in the dock
2016-02-25
Financial Mail
South Africa: Ten Things You Probably Don't Know About HIV in 2016
2016-02-22
All Africa
No cause for panic stations over SA Zika case, says expert
2016-02-22
Mail & Gaurdian
HPV rates drop 64% in decade since recommended CDC vaccination
2016-02-22
The Guardian
Vaginal ring offers partial HIV protection in HIV Treatment
2016-02-22
Health-e News
Comment: South Africa must close the immunisation gap that parallels class
2016-02-19
Mail & Guardian
E Cape Denosa demand better working conditions
2016-02-18
SABC
Expensive private healthcare highlighted at inquiry
2016-02-18
BDlive
When a child gives birth, who has failed her?
2016-02-15
Health-e News
Mpumalanga's health is failing - but it won't take it's medicine
2016-02-12
Mail & Guardian
Home HIV tests no suicide risk
2016-02-10
Timeslive
Concern grows at Catholic church's silence over Zika virus crisis
2016-02-04
The Gaurdian
No rise in SA's ARV resistance
2016-02-03
Timeslive
Forced virginity-testing is unlawful and offensive, and will not prevent HIV-AIDS
2016-02-02
Daily Maverick
Nurses leaving SA in droves
2016-02-02
IOL
Motsoaledi does not want NHI to limit choices
2016-02-01
BDlive
WHO Director-General summarizes the outcome of the Emergency Committee onZika Virus
2016-02-01
WHO
HPCSA is taking ‘corrective action’
2016-01-28
Health-e News
Epidemics on the horizon if threats not addressed - MSF
2016-01-26
Mail & Guardian
Osborne: malaria eradication will create more prosperous world
2016-01-25
The Gaurdian
Power struggles behind Free State TAC split
2016-01-25
Health-e News
Health care is a social investment
2016-01-22
Mercruy
Department aims to launch new health products watchdog next year
2016-01-22
BDlive
Calls for more private medical schools to address doctor shortages
2016-01-20
SABC News
Efavirenz-based treatment is safe and effective for young children with HIV exposed to nevirapine for PMTCT
2016-01-19
Aidsmap
Gogos step up for peace of mind
2016-01-16
Mail & Gaurdian
Healthcare inquiry could lead to further scrutiny
2016-01-15
BDlive
Online database: The National Health Research Database By Health-e News on January 14, 2016
2016-01-14
Health-e News
WHO set to declare end to Ebola epidemic
2016-01-13
The Guardian
Health department should focus on internal efficiency rather than NHI
2016-01-12
BDlive
Nursing SA back to health
2016-01-08
Mail & Guardian
Long-awaited autonomy in sight for SA's doctors
2016-01-08
South African Medical Journal
HPCSA ignores recommendations of ministerial task team
2016-01-06
Mail & Guardian
Community health workers demand more pay
2016-01-04
Health-e News
Breast milk banks tackle high infant mortality in SA
2016-01-03
BDlive

2015

Call for Contributions: High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines
2015-12-28
United Nations
Healthtalk: State of SA’s Healthcare
2015-12-26
SABC
Private Hospitals: Demand in neglected areas
2015-12-17
Financial Mail
EDITORIAL: No remedy in NHI white paper
2015-12-17
BDLive
Motsoaledi: We haven't identified a source of funding for the NHI
2015-12-12
Mail & Guardian
White Paper on National Health Insurance
2015-12-11
National Department of Health
NHI White Paper
2015-12-11
National Department of Health
NHI will reduce medical aids to 'complementary services'
2015-12-11
Health-e News
NHI will cover everyone: Motsoaledi
2015-12-11
Times Live
NHI could require additional tax revenue of R71.9bn
2015-12-11
BDlive
NHI funding proposals keenly watched
2015-12-10
BDlive
Call for Application to the Primary Health Care Expert Review Committee
2015-12-08
National Department of Health
Press release: Medicines Control Council approves fixed-dose combination of tenofovir disoproxyl fumarate and emtricitabine for pre-exposure prophylaxis of HIV
2015-12-03
SA Medicines Control Council
Turning the tide against TB: Treatment alone won't work
2015-12-02
Mail & Guardian
TB medication for children available at last
2015-12-02
TimesLive
How much healthcare policy is based on evidence?
2015-12-01
The Guardian
India looks to improve African health
2015-12-01
BDlive
World Aids Day: 'We need to end stigma and change our ideas about manhood'
2015-12-01
The Guardian
South Africa’s longest walk to freedom from HIV/AIDS
2015-12-01
Daily Maverick
Press statement: UNAIDS Executive Director delivers his World AIDS Day 2015 message
2015-12-01
UNAIDS
SA's HIV treatment programme has saved 1.3-million lives
2015-11-24
Mail & Guardian
4 things South Africa is doing to safeguard medicines
2015-11-23
Health-e News
Treatment Action Campaign receives R14m
2015-11-23
Helath -e News
Speak up for affordable medicine
2015-11-19
IOL
Dreams initiative for adolescent girls and young women in South Africa
2015-11-17
UNAIDS
WHO calls on countries to protect health from climate change
2015-11-17
WHO
South African civil society for women's, adolescents and children' health
2015-11-16
Deaptment of Health
SA still battling to reduce rates of HIV transmissionSA still battling to reduce rates of HIV transmission
2015-11-15
Times Live
Report finds Free State health services 'ineffective'
2015-11-10
Mai & Guardian.
Hormonal contraception safe for women with HIV and may have important health benefits
2015-11-06
aidsmap
Motsoaledi finds HPCSA in state of 'dysfunction'
2015-11-06
Mail & Guardian
NHI work founders on slow spending
2015-11-04
Times Live
Working at accessing medicines
2015-11-02
Daily News
Bedaquiline: the first new drug in decades to treat TB is now available in South Africa
2015-10-30
NICD Communiqué
BRICS health ministers commit to put the BRICS countries on the Fast-Track to end the AIDS epidemic
2015-10-30
UNAIDS.
Drug stock outs plague mental health patients
2015-10-27
Health-e News
Health Budget Review and Recommendations Report
2015-10-27
Parliamentary Monitoring Group
Health Systems Trust launches the 2014/15 SAHR and DHB
2015-10-26
Health Systems Trust
Step forward as cabinet insists on single NHI proposal
2015-10-22
BDLive
SA makes major strides in HIV treatment and prevention
2015-10-21
Mail & Guardian
Exodus of Free State doctors
2015-10-21
Health-e News
The good, bad and ugly in district health
2015-10-21
Health-e News.
WHO issues statements on use of reversible hormonal contraception
2015-10-21
WHO
The blame game at Mthatha Depot
2015-10-21
Section27
Health Systems Trust launches the latest editions of the annual South African Health Review and District Health Barometer
2015-10-20
Health Systems Trust
Competition Commission extends private healthcare inquiry timetable
2015-10-20
BDlive
Low-cost medical schemes delayed
2015-10-16
BDlive
Rising antibiotic resistance increasing risks of routine surgery – study
2015-10-16
The Guardian
South African Health Review 2015/16 Call for Chapters
2015-10-15
Health Systems Trust
Palliative care: For all ages and all diseases
2015-10-15
WHO
Sugar daddies: What's in it for teens
2015-10-09
The Mercury
South Africans urged to get eyes tested
2015-10-08
SABC News
China to build 100 hospitals and clinics in Africa
2015-10-07
Mail & Guardian
Save the Date: Health Systems Trust Conference 2016
2015-10-01
Health Systems Trust
Beyond the health benefits, what does Family Planning have to do with the SDGs?
2015-09-28
Knowledge for Health
Development Goals: Utopian dream or plausible plan?
2015-09-28
Health-e News
Maternal mortality: Breaking avoidable barriers to healthcare
2015-09-25
Daily Maverick
Motsoaledi takes new jab at regulating medics’ placement
2015-09-22
BDlive
NHI to reduce cost of healthcare
2015-08-22
Mail&Guardian
Minister says long-awaited NHI white paper about to enter cabinet process
2015-08-21
BDlive
Pathology wage deal averts disruption
2015-08-20
BDlive
Vaccine hesitancy: A growing challenge for immunization programmes
2015-08-18
WHO
Men equally at risk of HPV infection
2015-08-11
Mail&Guardian
Basic medical aid could soon be within reach of the poor
2015-07-29
BDlive
Private healthcare sector capable of serving twice as many patients
2015-07-29
BDlive
Private healthcare is 'wasteful'
2015-07-28
Health-e News
Public health suffers if vaccines are not accessible
2015-07-24
Mail&Guardian
TAC wants free treatment for all HIV infected
2015-07-23
Mail&Guardian
Medical aid change to benefit funders
2015-07-20
BDlive
Fact sheet: South Africa’s HIV programme by numbers
2015-07-16
Health-e News
Global health leaders call for harnessing power of innovation to end diseases
2015-07-15
UNITAID
South Africa: Women of lower socio-economic status have greater needs for services to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission
2015-07-15
aidsmap
Digital evolution for ground-breaking Yellow Card Scheme
2015-07-14
GOV.UK
WHO lays out plans for financing new global health goal: To ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
2015-07-10
WHO
UNFPA, WHO and UNAIDS: Position statement on condoms and the prevention of HIV, other sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy
2015-07-07
UNAIDS
Shocking 61% of health staff abused in last year
2015-07-06
.
Nearly half of our nurses suffer abuse
2015-07-06
Di Caelers
SA has UN’s HIV testing goal in sight
2015-07-03
BDlive
KZN health head appointed
2015-07-01
Independent Online
South Africa: Lower coverage of maternal HIV testing among adolescents leading to higher mother-to-child transmission
2015-07-01
aidsmap
Managing contacts in the MERS-CoV outbreak in the Republic of Korea
2015-07-01
WHO
There's no excuse, Minister: Here's the proof
2015-06-30
GroundUp
Communicable diseases communiqué: Influenza data from Viral Watch
2015-06-30
NICD/NHLS
Stunting: A rarely discussed public health problem
2015-06-29
BioMed Central
Meet the Khayelitsha compliers club
2015-06-26
Mail&Guardian
Call for submissions – Emerging Public Health Practitioner Award
2015-06-25
Health Systems Trust
Standerton Hospital opens wellness clinic
2015-06-25
Health-e News
Showdown over what medicals schemes must cover
2015-06-19
GroundUp
MERS’s best friend is ignorance, so it’s time to wise up
2015-06-16
IRIN
New AHRQ-funded centers to study health systems and their efforts to disseminate patient-centered outcomes research
2015-06-15
PR Newswire
Resource: HIV Clinical Guidelines app
2015-06-12
Health-e News
Crisis? What crisis? Africa Check tests Free State health claims
2015-06-12
Mail&Guardian
Private sector has medicines but not TB, chickenpox vaccines
2015-06-12
BDlive
Central repository for safety reports - one year to go before mandatory use EMA Management Board confirms that repository is fit for use across EU
2015-06-12
European Medicines Agency
Media Statement: Medicines Control Council to fast-track sourcing of active pharmaceutical ingredients pre-qualified by the World Health Organization, for the relevant medicines
2015-06-10
GCIS
Emergency medicines flown in to plug gap
2015-06-08
BDlive
Africa’s health system remains weak
2015-06-05
SABC
Teens trust Dr. Google and go online to seek health information
2015-06-03
TECH TIMES
450 South African nurses to undergo diabetes training as epidemic mounts
2015-06-02
News24
‘Don’t send us to the bush’ say nurses
2015-06-01
News24
Many South African women become infected with HIV during pregnancy posing high risk of transmission to their infants
2015-06-01
aidsmap
NHI far from reality but progress made in improving public health
2015-06-01
Health-e News
NHI: New system lets patients pick up medicine from shops
2015-06-01
Health-e News
A nurse and a family kit help save children’s lives
2015-05-29
UNICEF
World Health Assembly closes, passing resolutions on air pollution and epilepsy
2015-05-26
WHO
Poor management blamed for bulk of drug stock outs
2015-05-25
Health-e News
Birth control implant needs a shot in the arm
2015-05-22
Mail&Guardian
Ensuring universal health coverage for key populations
2015-05-22
UNAIDS
WHO: West Africa’s health systems need rebuilding post-Ebola
2015-05-21
Aljazeera America
We have enough medics, but they’re in the cities
2015-05-21
BDlive
State clinches public sector wage agreement
2015-05-19
BDlive
Netcare spends big to cope with outages
2015-05-19
BDlive
Comment: Mother and child health must improve
2015-05-15
Mail&Guardian
In Namibia, reaching rural communities with good health practices
2015-05-14
UNICEF
SA hosts world’s first study into better XDR-TB treatment
2015-05-14
Health-e News
SA joins world to celebrate Nurses' Day
2015-05-12
SABC
Department of Health announces new youth health app
2015-05-07
Health-e News
Roundtable discussion on the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research: Why prioritise talk over aid in the midst of the Ebola crisis?
2015-05-07
BMC Health Services Research
Why we should keep an eye on Apple’s ResearchKit
2015-05-07
BioMed Central
WHO ‘cannot continue as is’
2015-05-06
Health-e News
Community health workers close clinics in Khayelitsha
2015-05-05
GroundUp
Minister Aaron Motsoaledi: Health Dept Budget Vote 2015/16
2015-05-05
National Department of Health
Motsoaledi hails vaccines and bewails lack of interest in department’s successes
2015-05-05
BDlive
Gauteng hospital shambles
2015-05-04
GroundUp
National hand hygiene campaign launched in Pretoria
2015-05-04
SABC
Tshwane to upgrade Soshanguve clinic
2015-05-04
Health-e News
Condom use higher in young HIV-positive women with gender-equal views, study finds
2015-05-02
MNT
Transforming the health system, one kunjani at a time
2015-04-30
Health Systems Trust
Table Mountain Aerial Cableway joins hands with the community
2015-04-30
Stellenbosch University
SA joins new Global TB Vaccine Research Partnership
2015-04-22
SABC
Global vaccination targets ‘off-track’ warns WHO
2015-04-22
WHO
Easy access to chronic medication in NHI districts
2015-04-17
Health Systems Trust
DJs for a day
2015-04-17
Health Systems Trust
Caesarean births can be dangerous - report
2015-04-14
Independent Online
Lowest weekly Ebola figure in nearly a year: WHO
2015-04-09
SABC
TB: Taxis’ deadly passenger
2015-04-09
Health-e News
Multi-organization call to action identifies and addresses safety concerns in labor and delivery
2015-04-08
EurekAlert!
HIV: New approach against virus 'holds promise'
2015-04-08
BBC
Checkpoint: Clinic patient cards out HIV positive parents
2015-03-31
eNCA
Dispute declared in public sector pay talks
2015-03-29
Moneyweb
KZN MEC sees competency as key in hiring health officials
2015-03-27
SABC
CDC anti-smoking ads target e-cigarettes for first time, highlight tobacco’s links to variety of diseases
2015-03-26
The Washington Post
Why aren’t we producing medications for looming global disease threats?
2015-03-26
The Washington Post
MDR-TB: The struggle at home
2015-03-25
Health-e News
Antibiotic used in pregnancy linked to risk of epilepsy and cerebral palsy
2015-03-25
The Guardian
TB toll in South Africa is ‘disgraceful’ and ‘unacceptable’ says Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu
2015-03-24
Stellenbosch University
Treatment of drug-resistant TB at clinics a success
2015-03-24
Mail&Guardian
South Africa joins world to mark TB Day
2015-03-24
SABC
System is in good health, insists MEC Malakoane
2015-03-24
Mail&Guardian
Roll over Ebola: Measles is the deadly new threat
2015-03-23
Mail&Guardian
Editorial: Decentralise treatment for drug-resistant TB
2015-03-23
Health-e News
Red Cross marches against stigma towards TB patients
2015-03-20
SABC
New female contraceptive for school learners on the cards
2015-03-20
SABC
TB fight could soon get boost from simple swab diagnostic test
2015-03-19
BDlive
Draft policy: Early Childhood Development Policy
2015-03-18
Health-e News
Innovations at Groote Schuur offer hope to patients and nurses
2015-03-17
GroundUp
Concern over NHI’s failure to woo doctors
2015-03-16
BDlive
Pharmaceutical Public Health short courses
2015-03-13
University of the Western Cape
New scheme to help patients in Province
2015-03-13
Diamond Fields Advertiser
Health professionals council probed
2015-03-11
BDlive
SA to get medical ombudsman
2015-03-10
health24
Call for nominations: National Planning Commission
2015-03-10
Health-e News
MLAC aims to reduce AIDS prevalence in Mpumalanga
2015-03-10
SABC
Doctors under siege: Motsoaledi
2015-03-09
Cape Times
Does Depo-Provera increase the risk of HIV transmission? What the data really says
2015-03-03
PSI Impact
E-procurement in support of universal health coverage
2015-03-02
WHO
A minister with an HPV mission
2015-03-02
Independent Online
Most doctors give in to requests by parents to alter vaccine schedules
2015-03-02
The New York Times
Lost patient cards compound long queues
2015-02-27
Health-e News
XDR-TB in South Africa is largely spread person-to-person, not by failure of drug treatment
2015-02-26
aidsmap
US PEPFAR abstinence and faithfulness funding had no impact on sexual behaviour in Africa
2015-02-26
aidsmap
Briefly… SchoolMedia campaigns for healthy lifestyle for learners
2015-02-25
The Media Online
Hopes dashed as HIV measure found to be useless
2015-02-25
BDlive
Giving back to the hospital which saved his life
2015-02-17
Tygerburg Children's Hospital Trust
HPV vaccine highly effective against multiple cancer-causing strains
2015-02-13
EurekAlert!
Breast cancer advocates demand three-month supplies of treatment
2015-02-12
Health-e News
Rheumatic heart disease levels high in SA
2015-02-12
SABC
Influenza drug now hailed as effective
2015-01-30
BDlive
Comment: Measles threat puts Ebola to shame
2015-01-30
Mail&Guardian
State rethink on posting of doctors
2015-01-28
BDlive
SA’s health workers to help fight Ebola in Sierra Leone
2015-01-20
BDlive
Malaria cases on the rise: NICD
2015-01-20
SABC
SA role in Ebola vaccine clinical trial
2015-01-19
BDlive
60% of SA sex workers HIV positive
2015-01-13
City Press
Study links birth control to increased risk of HIV infection
2015-01-12
Health-e News
ART - 40% fail to adhere after three years
2015-01-11
NULL
Local experts wary of early cervical cancer jab successes
2015-01-09
Health-e News
New system ‘causing delays’ at Natalspruit hospital
2015-01-08
BDlive
SA secures ‘world’s lowest prices’ for HIV drugs
2015-01-06
BDlive

2014

Measles Outbreak Alert: South Africa
2014-12-19
NICD
Comment: Good health without the fear of ruin
2014-12-12
Mail&Guardian
Unions should rescue TAC, says Achmat
2014-12-10
GroundUp
BRICS health ministers adopt the UNAIDS Fast-Track strategy to end the AIDS epidemic
2014-12-10
UNAIDS
By the numbers: National Health Insurance in Mpumalanga
2014-12-09
Health-e News
SA medical staff sought to treat Ebola in Sierra Leone
2014-12-08
News24
Human rights commission probes Free State health department
2014-12-03
City Press
HIV/AIDS plan cited as fatalities fall
2014-12-03
BDlive
SA has capacity and experience to contain Ebola
2014-12-02
BDlive
Postgraduate programme in health management
2014-12-01
Stellenbosch University
HIV epidemic will spring back without near-universal diagnosis and treatment, says UNAIDS
2014-12-01
aidsmap
Protection of health-care workers essential for well-functioning health systems
2014-12-01
UNAIDS
World Aids Day: Less than half of infected people know
2014-11-30
Mail&Guardian
Limpopo concerned about pharmacist shortage
2014-11-28
Health-e News
Why a gender-conscious response to HIV is still necessary: Women, girls and HIV – 10 years on
2014-11-26
Health Systems Trust
Gauteng urges partnership in HIV/AIDS fight
2014-11-19
SABC
Global AIDS fight at pivotal point
2014-11-19
BDlive
State clinics in for major overhaul
2014-11-19
BDlive
Stellenbosch and Mediclinic join forces to train doctors
2014-11-18
BDlive
Mental illness in pregnant women a big concern
2014-11-18
BDlive
Diabetes: Risk factors and lifestyle interventions
2014-11-14
BioMed Central
SA short of psychologists
2014-11-13
Independent Online
What are the barriers that could stop HIV treatment becoming HIV prevention?
2014-11-12
aidsmap
Vaccine lowers child pneumonia and meningitis by 70%
2014-11-12
Mail&Guardian
2013/14 SAHR, 2013/14 DHB and NHRD launch event in Pretoria on 29 October 2014
2014-11-04
Health Systems Trust
Call for chapters – South African Health Review
2014-11-03
Health Systems Trust
New barometer reveals the haves and the have nots
2014-10-30
Health-e News
Experts mull ways to fund, manage National Health Insurance
2014-10-30
Health-e News
More gymslip mothers
2014-10-30
TimesLIVE
Health Systems Trust launches latest South African Health Review and District Health Barometer, introduces the National Health Research Database
2014-10-29
HST
'Unnecessarily high' Caesarean section rate is cause for concern
2014-10-29
Mail&Guardian
Call for Abstracts: School of Health Sciences, University of Fort Hare and Department of Health, Eastern Cape, Research Seminar 2014
2014-10-24
University of Fort Hare
Ebola serum for Africa patients within weeks, says WHO
2014-10-21
BBC
Plea for private training of doctors
2014-10-17
BDlive
Targeted adherence measures and viral load monitoring needed to improve retention in South African ART programme
2014-10-16
aidsmap
Western Cape health department earns 10th unqualified audit
2014-10-14
BDlive
The importance of national funding for health in Africa
2014-10-14
UNAIDS
Medunsa to be split from University of Limpopo
2014-10-13
BDlive
The Cape Town Statement on Health Systems Research
2014-10-10
Health Systems Global
Government set to review dispensing fees
2014-10-09
BDlive
HST presence at the Third Global Symposium on HSR
2014-10-01
Health Systems Trust
Third Global Symposium on HSR: Improving the quality of and access to material and child health services
2014-10-01
Health Systems Trust
Third Global Symposium on HSR: Official Opening plenary session
2014-10-01
Health Systems Trust
Third Global Symposium on HSR – People-centredness in complex health systems: Dimensions and practices
2014-10-01
Health Systems Trust
Third Global Symposium on HSR – Governance and health in Africa: Pan-African perspectives on state stewardship for people’s health
2014-09-30
Health Systems Trust
Health systems innovation is the path to better health
2014-09-26
Mail&Guardian
info4africa and Always Active release health information app
2014-09-19
info4africa
DA will ‘oppose medical bill’s plans to commercialise cannabis’
2014-09-18
BDlive
Third Global Symposium on HSR – Media Release: People-centred health systems will be the heart of dialogues at the Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research.
2014-09-17
Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research
Traditional healing: Modern medicine's friend or foe?
2014-09-17
The Guardian
New role for Durban’s McCord Hospital as specialist eye centre
2014-09-09
BDlive
Paper: The broken thread – Primary health care, social justice and the dignity of the health worker
2014-09-02
Health-e News
Medical male circumcision campaign gains momentum
2014-09-01
Stellenbosch University
Health experts call for equality in access to health
2014-09-01
SABC
Ebola takes its toll on healthcare workers
2014-09-01
Mail&Guardian
Poor knowledge of partner HIV status among South African women with recent pregnancy
2014-08-29
aidsmap
Clinics run out of drugs
2014-08-13
Times LIVE
Study in South African township shows HIV-negative individuals often source of new TB cases in patients with HIV
2014-08-11
aidsmap
Civil society groups threaten to sue Eastern Cape Department of Health
2014-08-08
Health-e News
New breast-feeding policy for HIV moms pays off
2014-08-07
Mail&Guardian
Southern African states to collaborate on Ebola
2014-08-07
BDlive
More must be done to cut unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions, say experts
2014-08-05
The Guardian
Controversial policy to regulate doctors on hold
2014-07-31
Health-e News
Better health for KwaNokuthula residents
2014-07-29
Western Cape Government Health and Health Systems Trust
SA’s Shisana will co-chair AIDS summit
2014-07-25
Independent Online
HIV/AIDS pills at early stage ‘unwise’
2014-07-24
BDlive
Lifelong ARVs for pregnant women, says Health Minister
2014-07-24
Health-e News
Speech: Health Budget Vote 2014/15
2014-07-23
Health-e News
SA to treat HIV patients earlier, says Motsoaledi
2014-07-23
BDlive
Adolescent deaths from AIDS rising, especially among boys
2014-07-22
aidsmap
HIV infections in children under five down by over three quarters
2014-07-22
Mail&Guardian
Cash transfers plus care halve HIV risk behaviours in South African adolescents
2014-07-22
aidsmap
Better, shorter TB treatment - thanks to SA scientists
2014-07-22
Health-e News
UNAIDS pushes for an end to Aids epidemic
2014-07-21
SABC
Ten organizations receive Red Ribbon Award for outstanding community leadership on AIDS
2014-07-21
UNAIDS
What is needed to 'step up the pace' on HIV prevention and treatment?
2014-07-21
aidsmap
AIDS 2014 opening ceremony honours Flight MH17 dead with drive to end AIDS by 2030
2014-07-20
aidsmap
Letter to the Melbourne International AIDS Conference: Does anybody remember AIDS?
2014-07-20
TAC
Free State healthcare workers march for Malakoane's head
2014-07-17
Mail&Guardian
North West doctors gear up for the NHI
2014-07-15
Health-e News
Rapid HIV test gives hope for newborn infants
2014-07-14
City Press
Calling for applications: Graduate Programme in Public Health 2015
2014-07-08
University of KwaZulu-Natal
24-hour clinic to open in Limpopo
2014-06-25
Health-e News
Flat funding, harsh laws could hurt Uganda’s battle against HIV
2014-06-25
IRIN
National Tuberculosis Management Guidelines 2014 released
2014-06-10
Health-e News
Health minister’s battle plan
2014-06-05
Financial Mail
Doctors need not panic over ‘certificates of need’
2014-06-04
Health-e News
The  doctor who  walked  away
2014-05-30
Mail&Guardian
Comment: The cost malady; Foresight is 2020
2014-05-30
Mail&Guardian
Health dept aims to make primary school learners TB ambassadors
2014-05-30
SABC
N West medical practitioners vow to improve maternal care
2014-05-30
SABC
New X-ray scanners will save hospitals time, money
2014-05-29
BDlive
International expert says better treatment of TB is urgently needed
2014-05-29
Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University
Motsoaledi returns for second term as health minister
2014-05-26
BDlive
Annual Medical Research Council Scientific Merit Awards 2014
2014-05-23
SAMRC
PrePex could cut down on botched circumcision deaths
2014-05-19
Mail&Guardian
World Health Statistics 2014: Large gains in life expectancy
2014-05-15
WHO
Research could point to better treatment for babies with TB
2014-05-12
Desmond Tutu TB Centre
AIDS Health Foundation donates R15 mln to KZN
2014-05-12
SABC
Tygerberg Children's Hospital beats the odds
2014-05-09
Tygerburger
UNAIDS and UNWTO ST-EP Foundation release a unique new book on HIV for children
2014-05-08
UNAIDS
Public health a major priority in African nations
2014-05-01
Pew Research Center
How vaccine denialism in the West is causing measles outbreaks in Brazil  
2014-04-28
The Guardian
ARV programme saves 780 000 lives
2014-04-11
Health-e News
North West health probes baby milk formula scandal
2014-04-04
City Press
Experts call for accelerating progress towards universal HIV treatment access
2014-04-03
UNAIDS
South African National HIV Prevalence, Incidence & Behaviour Survey, 2012
2014-04-01
Health-e News
Gauteng health puts measures in place to stop negligence at hospitals
2014-03-31
City Press
TB deaths decline by 2% – Motlanthe
2014-03-25
City Press
TB contracted more in general community than home
2014-03-25
SABC
NHLS won't suspend services to Gauteng, says department
2014-03-24
Mail&Guardian
Women with circumcised partners less likely to have HIV, no less likely to use condoms
2014-03-19
Aidsmap
Stock-outs, low awareness stymie immunisations
2014-03-11
Health-e News
Private hospital market flat - research
2014-03-10
BDlive
New advances in HIV research and development
2014-03-10
UNAIDS
Cape Town clinics duck nationwide health audit
2014-03-09
City Press
No proof that HIV-infected baby was cured
2014-03-06
Mail&Guardian
Report fuels probe into medical schemes registrar
2014-03-05
BDlive
Local scientists step close to developing vaccine against HIV
2014-03-04
BDlive
NHI details promised before election in May
2014-02-27
BDlive
'Disappointing' budget leaves little room for health boost
2014-02-26
Mail&Guardian
Health Ministry aims to resolve problems at Laboratory Service
2014-02-19
SABC
New regulatory institute ‘a boost’ for medicines council
2014-02-19
BDlive
Medicine goes mobile with smartphone apps
2014-02-19
News24
New hospitals and clinics for NHI on the cards
2014-02-18
BDLive
SA school girls to be vaccinated against cervical cancer
2014-02-18
SABC
ARV shortages uncovered: Bhekisisa director speaks on VoW FM
2014-02-18
Mail&Guardian
Call made for sugar to be classified as a drug
2014-02-15
SABC
‘Lifestyle diseases’ plaguing poor
2014-02-12
Health-e News
South Africa ‘to grow science ties with Brics nations’
2014-02-11
BDLive
Tshwane support workers go unpaid
2014-02-11
Health-e News
Limpopo medical students leave for Cuba
2014-02-10
SABC
Government offers lifeline to embattled Durban hospital
2014-02-07
BDLive
High incidence of antiretroviral prescribing errors in Nigeria
2014-02-07
Aidsmap
Measles deaths reach record lows with fragile gains toward global elimination
2014-02-06
WHO
The future of aid: UNICEF Executive Board addresses funding and partnerships
2014-02-06
UNICEF
Dr Harry Surtie Hospital: Double-edged sword of technology
2014-01-31
Mail&Guardian
Motsoaledi names board of new Office of Health Standards Compliance
2014-01-30
BDLive
Funding for science projects is a major challenge
2014-01-27
SABC
Hackathon aims to improve SA's health care system
2014-01-25
SABC
Director-General of Health - remarks in Geneva about #Pharmagate
2014-01-23
KEI
South African DG of Health, Doctors challenge pharma lobbying plans
2014-01-23
UAEM
Gates Foundation forms new health partnerships in South Africa
2014-01-21
BDLive
WHO may begin webcast of health minister meeting
2014-01-20
The New York Times
Motsoaledi: Big pharma's 'satanic' plot is genocide
2014-01-17
Mail&Guardian
Healthcare heroes heal the system
2014-01-17
Mail&Guardian
TB patients sent home to die, says study
2014-01-17
BDLive
UNAIDS has ‘good news’ about HIV in SA
2014-01-17
Business Day
Hospitals may be discharging XDR-TB patients too soon – study
2014-01-17
Health-e News
Computerised counselling for HIV patients improves treatment adherence
2014-01-13
Aidsmap
Webcast the World Health Assembly
2014-01-11
The Lancet
Webcast the World Health Assembly
2014-01-11
The Lancet
Study uses stem cells to help treat drug-resistant TB
2014-01-10
BDLive
Innovative healthcare initiative launched in Cape Town
2014-01-09
Humanipo
New iPad app to record data at Groote Schuur
2014-01-08
Health24
TB/HIV programmatic challenges highlighted at ICASA
2014-01-07
Aidsmap
Wrangle may delay healthcare inquiry
2014-01-06
BDLive

2013

Drink fuels nation’s health crisis
2013-12-31
IOL
Department to assess effects of mooted alcohol ad ban
2013-12-24
BDLive
Concerns grow over Mpumalanga health care
2013-12-21
News24
US health policy weighs on SA's HIV patients
2013-12-18
Mail&Guardian
ARV treatment helps reduce TB in HIV patients: study
2013-12-18
SABC
Firm warns on state role in private health
2013-12-17
BDLive
Brazil and Thailand got it right – can SA really make NHI work?
2013-12-13
Mail&Guardian
Finding new ways to make viral load testing cheaper
2013-12-13
IRIN
Madiba: The belated rise of an Aids activist
2013-12-13
Mail&Guardian
Global health initiatives HIV treatment in South Africa has had "astounding" benefits
2013-12-12
Aidsmap
How master of political theatre put AIDS in spotlight
2013-12-12
BDLive
Shift in mood towards HIV
2013-12-11
Mail&Guardian
Very far from end of AIDS
2013-12-10
Health-e News
Nelson Mandela's activism remembered at AIDS and STIs conference
2013-12-09
IRIN
News from day one of the 3rd Structural Drivers of HIV Conference
2013-12-06
Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Regional Exchange (SHARE)
Health care community reacts to Mandela’s death
2013-12-06
Health-e News
Cancer institute charts course
2013-12-05
Health-e News
NHI could push public spending on health to new heights
2013-12-04
Health-e News
Trailblazing move to take HIV treatment out of clinics
2013-12-02
Health-e News
Private health inquiry will take two years
2013-12-02
IOL
Nurses at forefront of HIV fight
2013-12-02
TimesLive
Terms of healthcare inquiry get nod
2013-12-02
BDLive
Health Systems Trust launches its HIV Counselling and Testing Media Campaign
2013-11-29
Health Systems Trust
Motsoaledi warns opportunists NHI will not be ‘a pot of gold’
2013-11-29
BDLive
Villagers flock to take HIV tests
2013-11-29
Mail&Guardian
There’s a hole in the middle of our AIDS programme
2013-11-29
Health-e News
Medicines go missing – and so do budgets
2013-11-29
Health-e News
Medicine falls back in funding queue for private money
2013-11-28
BDLive
Report suggests ARV and TB drug supply woes a 'national crisis'
2013-11-28
Mail & Guardian
One-day cervical cancer test could soon be available in South Africa
2013-11-28
Health-e News
New study again proves worth of social grants in South Africa
2013-11-27
Daily Maverick
World AIDS Day 2013 - Necessity drives Innovation: KZN AIDS researchers ignite hope
2013-11-27
Health Systems Trust
State unveils cancer control plan
2013-11-27
IOL
Child support grant keeps sugar daddies away
2013-11-26
Health-e News
South Africa gears up to tackle cancer, non-communicable diseases
2013-11-26
Health-e News
Automated pharmacy brings relief
2013-11-26
The Citizen
Minister to name health watchdog officials
2013-11-25
BDLive
National Health Insurance pilot district business plans
2013-11-25
Health-e News
State moves on ‘miracle cure’ drugs
2013-11-22
BDLive
National Lotteries Board and Health Systems Trust Launch HIV Counselling and Testing Awareness Campaign
2013-11-22
Health Systems Trust and National Lotteries Board
Wits researchers make major progress with HIV vaccine
2013-11-21
City Press
Global AIDS response: How are we doing?
2013-11-21
UNAIDS
A Call on African governments to boost the fight against childhood cancer
2013-11-21
Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Stellenbosch University
Cancer groups threaten legal action against Gauteng Department of Health
2013-11-20
Health-e News
HIV and Aids: record numbers in poorer countries receive treatment
2013-11-20
Guardian
Not feeling the female condom
2013-11-20
Health-e News
Call for free cancer drugs for all
2013-11-19
Times Live
Africa’s health could go up in smoke
2013-11-19
Health-e News
Teenage pregnancies and contraception access under spotlight at global summit
2013-11-12
Guardian
New TB vaccine trial in SA
2013-11-12
Times Live
Parliament’s help sought in health crisis
2013-11-07
BDLive
R30m of expired meds found in ECape depot
2013-11-06
The Citizen
South Africa ‘seeks balance’ between intellectual property, public health
2013-11-06
BD Live
Revolutionary test for TB poses some challenges
2013-11-06
Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Stellenbosch University
Earlier HIV treatment could save South Africa money
2013-11-06
Health-e News
A Long wait to get treated for MDR-TB
2013-11-05
Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Stellenbosch University
Funding for TB research drops sharply
2013-11-05
Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Stellenbosch University
War on TB far from won
2013-11-04
Times Live
Healthcare probe: storm looms for hospitals, funders
2013-11-03
BDLive
McCord Hospital survives
2013-11-01
City Press
Edendale Hospital turns over new leaf
2013-11-01
Health-e News
Huge family planning drive to cut teen pregnancies
2013-10-31
Health-e News
New TB technology may be ready for clinics
2013-10-31
Health-e News
Minister blasts alcohol industry’s ‘arrogance’
2013-10-31
BDLive
Cape Town XDR-TB patient leads international campaign
2013-10-31
Health-e News
Costs keep cancer drugs out of developing countries
2013-10-30
Health-e News
State ‘not trying to destroy’ healthcare
2013-10-30
BDLive
Patient-Centered TB Treatment Will Require Modernizing Directly-Observed Therapy
2013-10-30
Medicins San Frontiers
Gauteng doubles HIV treatment numbers
2013-10-29
Health-e News
KwaZulu-Natal charts gains in HIV despite massive burden
2013-10-29
Health-e News
South Africa far from targets to reduce maternal, infant mortality
2013-10-29
Health-e News
Health district dunces
2013-10-29
Health-e News
Public, private hospital costs ‘similar’
2013-10-29
BDLive
Adults on antiretroviral therapy on the increase
2013-10-29
SABC News
Farmworkers need healthcare, too
2013-10-25
Mail&Guardian
Medics 'sabotaged' E Cape health
2013-10-25
Mail&Guardian
Launch of the District Health Barometer 2012/13
2013-10-24
Health Systems Trust
Multidrug-resistant TB cases double
2013-10-24
Health-e News
The long road to childhood cancer treatment
2013-10-23
Health-e News
Proposed tobacco regulations more than “smoke and mirrors”
2013-10-23
Health-e News
Community health workers strike for better working conditions
2013-10-23
Health-e News
Treasury’s NHI discussion document nearly ready
2013-10-23
BDLive
How Gordhan's expenditure cuts could affect health targets
2013-10-23
Mail&Guardian
Nurses are certified to administer ARV’s: Motsoaledi
2013-10-22
SABC
Activists must join fight against corruption in health sector, says Section27
2013-10-21
BDLive
Activists push for drug patent reforms
2013-10-18
BDLive
Clean audits for health departments
2013-10-17
BDLive
Violence puts pressure on Western Cape healthcare
2013-10-17
BDLive
Change of mind on health gap cover
2013-10-16
BDLive
Primary healthcare will be heartbeat of NHI, says health minister
2013-10-16
BDLive
Government switches strategy on drugs
2013-10-16
Health-e News
Research recommends how to tackle spread of HIV/AIDS by African truckers
2013-10-16
University of Cambridge
E Cape health coalition wants premier to intervene
2013-10-14
Mail&Guardian
EC Health Department “misses” deadline
2013-10-14
Health-e News
SA offers HIV vaccine research hope
2013-10-09
Health-e News
The Desmond Tutu TB Centre on a quest to reduce childhood TB Deaths
2013-10-09
Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University
Motsoaledi prioritises treatment of TB in prisons
2013-10-09
SABC News
R3bn boost for SA's fight against HIV
2013-10-09
SAnews.gov.za
Staunching SA's pregnancy wound
2013-10-08
Mail&Guardian
New NHLS system causes delays in HIV, TB and cervical cancer tests
2013-10-07
Health-e News
Government to take over Durban's McCord Hospital
2013-10-07
Mail&Guardian
Harsh price of HIV-linked longevity
2013-10-04
Mail&Guardian
Mpumalanga launches new Ward AIDS Councils
2013-10-03
Health-e News
UCT’s private academic hospital aims to raise patient occupancy rate
2013-10-02
BDLive
New funding models needed ‘to fight cancer in poor nations’
2013-10-01
BDLive
Mountain to climb in primary health care
2013-09-30
IOL
Aspen finalises drug acquisition deal with GlaxoSmithKline
2013-09-30
BDLive
Motsoaledi tackles environmental health
2013-09-28
The New Age
Health Dept to take over McCord
2013-09-27
IOL
McCord Hospital's fate turns again
2013-09-25
Mail&Guardian
McCord Hospital to keep doors open, court rules
2013-09-24
BDLive
How South Africa’s fight against HIV stacks up
2013-09-23
Health-e News
HIV in children halved – UNAIDS
2013-09-23
Health-e News
UN reports ‘dramatic’ progress in global fight against AIDS
2013-09-23
BDLive
Circumcision gets help from experts
2013-09-23
IOL
Minister pledges action at Flagstaff
2013-09-20
BDLive
Motsoaledi orders Eastern Cape to start over
2013-09-19
Mail&Guardian
First ever guidelines to manage pain in cancer patients to be released
2013-09-19
Health-e News
McCord hospital in Durban closing down
2013-09-18
News24
eThekwini health boss begins three-month suspension
2013-09-18
BDLive
Government unveils NCD strategic plan
2013-09-18
Health-e News
McCord expected to close its doors
2013-09-17
IOL
October deadline set for ECape health rescue plan
2013-09-16
Health-e News
Brown launches partnership on South Africa HIV
2013-09-14
Houston Chronicle
Birth control hits the spot
2013-09-13
Mail&Guardian
All South African population groups at risk of hypertension, says doctor
2013-09-13
BDLive
Task team to probe healthcare meltdown
2013-09-12
Health-e News
Motsoaledi forms task team to probe E Cape health care
2013-09-12
Mail&Guardian
No quality healthcare for 84% of SA – Motsoaledi
2013-09-12
City Press
SA health care system leaves out 84%: Motsoaledi
2013-09-12
Times Live
Cape babies at risk as vaccines run low
2013-09-12
IOL
Timeline of a troubled province
2013-09-11
Health-e News
Be warned
2013-09-11
Health-e News
Eastern Cape health access 'made to look like a privilege'
2013-09-11
Mail&Guardian
Drug patent reform plans please activists
2013-09-10
BDLive
Experts meet on advancing access to HIV treatment
2013-09-10
UNAIDS
Community caregivers: the backbone of HIV care and support programmes
2013-09-09
UNAIDS
Gauteng Has Recorded a Steady Improvement in the Health of Its Children
2013-09-08
Gauteng Department of Health
SA's midwives chart a new course
2013-09-06
Mail&Guardian
Private healthcare pricing inquiry to start in November
2013-09-06
BDLive
Motsoaledi: Why I use government hospitals
2013-09-06
Mail&Guardian
Private healthcare pricing inquiry to start in November
2013-09-06
BDLive
'No child should go blind'
2013-09-05
Mail&Guardian
Medical aid principals face scrutiny
2013-09-04
Business Day
Draft intellectual property policy to be released
2013-09-04
Health-e News
Mpumalanga hospital patients go hungry
2013-09-04
Health-e News
Innovative new system to monitor and centralise research
2013-09-04
Health Systems Trust
Staggering cost of SA’s ill middle class
2013-09-04
IOL
TB in South African prisons: WHERE TO NOW?
2013-09-04
NSP Review
Junk food ad ban mooted
2013-09-03
IOL
Community health hub extends Khayelitsha care
2013-08-31
ENCA
Please Cure Me: Medics dial it down
2013-08-30
Mail&Guardian
'NHI will benefit the entire region'
2013-08-30
Mail&Guardian
HIV patients denied treatment after document circulated to Gauteng hospitals
2013-08-30
Health-e News
Take-home test helps detect cervical cancer
2013-08-28
Health-e News
In South Africa, A Clinic Focuses On Prostitutes To Fight HIV
2013-08-28
National Public Radio
Medicines Control Council courts controversy with ban on starch drips
2013-08-27
BDLive
Despite progress, TB cure is still elusive
2013-08-26
BDLive
Healthcare's private parts to shrink
2013-08-23
Mail&Guardian
Smoking-related deaths ‘higher among coloureds’
2013-08-23
BDLive
Gap and health insurance plans ‘undermining’ medical schemes
2013-08-22
BDLIve
SA study may pave the way for easier infant HIV treatment
2013-08-22
Health-e News
Panel Discussion: Making the NHI Work for All South Africans - Can It be Achieved?
2013-08-22
The South African Civil Society Information Service
Healthworkers unite for positive work environment
2013-08-22
Health-e News
Medical schemes’ approach to new therapies ‘not driven by science’
2013-08-21
BDLive
Funding injection for healthcare
2013-08-20
The New Age
Drug illness costs spiral
2013-08-20
Times Live
Medical schemes move to address regulatory backlog
2013-08-20
BDLIve
National Health Insurance ‘not the end’ of medical schemes industry
2013-08-20
BDLive
National Health Insurance ‘not the end’ of medical schemes industry
2013-08-20
BDLive
Public private partnerships may answer doctor shortage
2013-08-19
Mail&Guardian
Insufficient sanitation for Ehashahasheni residents
2013-08-19
Health-e News
Pill Can Prevent Fatal TB in HIV Patients
2013-08-19
NY Times
Dreaming the impossible to save the lives of South Africa's mothers and babies
2013-08-15
RMCH
Lifestyle diseases threaten NHI
2013-08-15
Mail&Guardian
Health research is essential for progress towards universal health coverage
2013-08-15
WHO
Health minister opts for surgery at public hospital
2013-08-14
BDLIve
NHI a tonic for extreme inequality
2013-08-14
Mail&Guardian
There's a new HIV drug - but Africa will have to wait
2013-08-14
Mail&Guardian
Emergency Medical Services a problem in Mgungundlovu, Public Protector told
2013-08-14
Health-e News
New medicine control body a step closer
2013-08-13
BDLIve
KZN NHI implementation plans on track
2013-08-13
East Coast Radio
Experimental malaria vaccine proves highly effective in US test
2013-08-09
BDLive
State hopes big changes to patent rules will cut drug costs
2013-08-08
BDLive
HST has a new CEO
2013-08-08
Health Systems Trust
‘Not hungry, not healthy’ paradox plagues SA, survey warns
2013-08-07
BDLive
Fat nation with big health problems
2013-08-07
Health-e News
Motsoaledi: Chronic disease on the rise in SA
2013-08-07
Mail&Guardian
Train SA doctors at home - MEC
2013-08-07
IOL
Lifestyle diseases a threat to health system – Aaron Motsoaledi
2013-08-06
City Press
Health survey finds South Africans’ waistlines are growing
2013-08-06
BDLive
Govt moves to stop alcohol ads
2013-08-05
Health-e News
Durban hospital’s NHI model working
2013-08-05
IOL
Education is key to preventing 3 200 SA women’s deaths per year
2013-08-04
City Press
Ghost staff save Gauteng Health R2.3m
2013-08-02
IOL
SA an ‘outstanding model’, says UNAIDS report
2013-07-31
Health-e News
HIV infections fall 30% in eastern and southern Africa
2013-07-31
BD Live
Govt to boost SA’s low breastfeeding rate
2013-07-31
Health-e News
How HIV/Aids hits schoolchildren
2013-07-30
IOL
Private pharmacies to help end stock-outs?
2013-07-30
Health-e News
Addressing the challenges facing young people in South Africa
2013-07-29
UNAIDS
Co-ordinating HIV approaches in Msukaligwa
2013-07-29
Health-e News
TB strain: Resistance is fertile
2013-07-26
Mail&Guardian
Mpumalanga loses ground in war on HIV
2013-07-26
Mail&Guardian
Hospitals will buy own meds
2013-07-26
Times Live
WHO’s new HIV guidelines may ‘distract’, warns expert
2013-07-25
Health-e News
NHI funding model far from decided
2013-07-25
IOL
MEC visits day hospitals
2013-07-25
Eyewitness News
Baragwanath revamps admissions ward
2013-07-24
sanews.gov.za
Most districts in NHI study have failed to spend their budgets
2013-07-24
BD Live
Concern over hospitals’ use of starch drip
2013-07-23
BD Live
The Mpumalanga province graduation ceremony for NIMART nurses
2013-07-23
Health-e News
KZN health welcomes hospital probe
2013-07-21
News 24
67 minutes of Ubuntu from the HST staff
2013-07-19
Health Systems Trust
South Africa Weighs Starting HIV Drug Treatment Sooner
2013-07-16
NPR
Over 6000 patients on FDC pill in NW
2013-07-15
sanews.gov.za
Patients worried as medicine stock-outs continue
2013-07-15
Health-e News
No drugs, but minister is hailed
2013-07-12
Times Live
Drug row sparked by HIV spending
2013-07-12
Mail&Guardian
South African couples living with HIV are missing out on safer conception advice
2013-07-11
Aidsmap
South African health minister: Canada should join us to fight TB in mines
2013-07-11
The Globe and Mail
Medical schemes ‘getting to grips with drug budgets’
2013-07-10
Business Day
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka from South Africa appointed as new UN Women Executive Director
2013-07-10
UN Women
One third of world's population benefits from effective tobacco control measure
2013-07-10
World Health Organization
Stockouts continue
2013-07-09
Health-e News
ARV stock arrives in Gauteng
2013-07-09
News 24
Village Clinic: TAC pressure sees minister step in
2013-07-08
Health-e News
President Obama says South Africa is leading the way to an AIDS-free generation
2013-07-08
UNAIDS
UCT medical historian awarded global AIDS research grant
2013-07-08
Biz Community
Clinics run out of life-saving ARV drugs
2013-07-07
CityPress
Profit vital to private hospitals
2013-07-05
Mail&Guardian
South Africa’s Atomo Diagnostics To Introduce Test Device That Improves HIV Testing
2013-07-04
Ventures
EVIPNet and the WHO launch the EVIPNet Virtual Health Library and the Intergovernmental Organizations’ Health Systems Documents Portal
2013-07-04
EVIPNet
Motsoaledi to reform private health care
2013-07-04
Financial Mail
UNAIDS pledges support to networks of women living with HIV to advance cervical cancer programmes
2013-07-03
UNAIDS
Big boost for the snip
2013-07-02
Health-e News
Mpumalanga tackles circumision
2013-06-28
Health-e News
Commissioners begin mapping the route from AIDS to sustainable health
2013-06-28
UNAIDS
Commission set to review healthcare probe submissions
2013-06-27
Business Day
Gauteng health dept fails to meet court ordered payment deadline
2013-06-27
Mail&Guardian
Injection for nursing in South Africa
2013-06-26
Nursing Foundation of South Africa
New HIV infections among children have been reduced by 50% or more in seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa
2013-06-25
Health-e News
Review supports Discovery Health administration fees
2013-06-25
Business Day
Decrease in women abuse = decrease in HIV infections, say researchers
2013-06-21
Mail&Guardian
Drug-resistant TB patients have access to new drug
2013-06-21
Health-e News
Household survey: HIV prevalence increases
2013-06-20
Mail&Guardian
HIV, ARVs and the cervical cancer vaccine
2013-06-20
Mail&Guardian
HIV/AIDS class urged to reduce infection, promote awareness among students
2013-06-20
Business Day
HIV messages should include MSM
2013-06-19
Health-e News
Alarm raised about lack of AIDS drugs
2013-06-19
Business Day
Government replaces circumcision device
2013-06-19
Business Day
Gauteng Health Preventing Tuberculosis in HIV Positive People
2013-06-19
Gauteng Department of Health
Social grants decrease teenage girls' risk of contracting HIV
2013-06-18
Mail&Guardian
Catastrophe as Eastern Cape drug stock-outs continue
2013-06-18
Health-e News
Maternal and paediatric tuberculosis still overlooked
2013-06-18
IRIN
No proper HIV care for prisoners
2013-06-14
IOL
Hospitals – they're making a killing
2013-06-14
Mail&Guardian
Contraceptive policy overhauled
2013-06-14
Mail&Guardian
Study shows PreP works for IDU
2013-06-13
Health-e News
Most people with mental disorders ‘not getting care they need’
2013-06-13
Business Day
UNAIDS welcomes new findings that provide an additional tool for HIV prevention for people who inject drugs
2013-06-12
UNAIDS
Life saving cancer vaccine will be difficult to implement
2013-06-07
Mail&Guardian
UNAIDS welcomes pre-qualification by WHO of first non-surgical device for adult male circumcision in HIV prevention efforts
2013-06-07
UNAIDS
WHO pre-qualifies MMC device
2013-06-06
Health-e News
Scientific breakthroughs in HIV help shape the future of AIDS research in Africa
2013-06-05
UNAIDS
Progress on HIV brings hope to the province of KwaZulu Natal
2013-06-04
UNAIDS
New medicines regulator delayed
2013-06-04
Business Day
UNAIDS to establish international scientific expert panel on HIV
2013-06-03
UNAIDS
SA Prof to head UNAIDS science panel
2013-06-03
Health-e News
Gauteng health MEC says progress is being made
2013-06-03
Business Day
The United Nations lays out “historic” post 2015 development agenda
2013-05-31
UNAIDS
Circumcision Device Approved by World Health Organization
2013-05-31
NY Times
Motsoaledi seeks to quell fear over circumcision
2013-05-31
Business Day
Specialist clinics ‘are key to cutting costs, waste’
2013-05-30
Business Day
Smoking in South Africa
2013-05-30
Health-e News
Prof defends tobacco packaging
2013-05-29
Health-e News
Investing in women
2013-05-29
Health-e News
Hypertension and diabetes ‘a threat to Africa’
2013-05-28
Business Day
Motsoaledi outlines integrated health school plan
2013-05-28
SAnews.gov.za
Limpopo clinics soon to get medicines again
2013-05-27
Health-e News
Zuma: HIV/Aids remains a problem for Africa
2013-05-26
Mail and Guardian
African leaders pledge to intensify efforts towards ending AIDS, TB and Malaria
2013-05-26
UNAIDS
New investments needed to advance progress on AIDS, TB and malaria in Africa
2013-05-25
UNAIDS
Infant care leaps forward with a lesson from kangaroos
2013-05-24
Mail and Guardian
Setback for state’s AIDS drugs plan as investor pulls out
2013-05-24
Business Day
Exclusive ambulances for pregnant women
2013-05-24
The New Age
Youth organizations form a pact for social transformation in the AIDS response
2013-05-23
UNAIDS
New pharmaceutical body to tackle drug registration delay
2013-05-22
Business Day
Western Cape ventures into ICT incubation hubs
2013-05-21
Business Day
New research-based pharmaceutical organisation IPASA launches
2013-05-21
IPASA
UNAIDS reports more than 7 million people now on HIV treatment across Africa––with nearly 1 million added in the last year—while new HIV infections and deaths from AIDS continue to fall
2013-05-21
UNAIDS
Netcare CEO says Competition Commission must also probe pharmaceuticals
2013-05-20
Business Day
No smoking near building entrances
2013-05-17
Health-e News
Motsoaledi urges medical schemes to pay for cancer vaccines
2013-05-16
Business Day
Health insurance plan, price regulation soon, says minister
2013-05-16
Business Day
NHI white paper out soon, says Motsoaledi
2013-05-16
Business Day
A state-owned pharmaceutical company for ARVs
2013-05-16
Department of Science and Technology
Private health costs inquiry welcomed
2013-05-15
Business Day
WHO statistics show narrowing health gap between countries with best and worst health status
2013-05-15
WHO
Health: Minister's Budget Vote Speech
2013-05-15
Parlimentary Monitoring Group
Schoolgirls to get cervical cancer vaccines from 2014
2013-05-15
Business Day
Plan to add cervical cancer jab to child immunisation
2013-05-10
BusinessDay
South African and Zimbabwe unite against cholera
2013-05-10
Health-e News
‘Record low price’ paid for vaccines to protect against cervical cancer
2013-05-09
Business Day
Mobile phones, a vital tool for pregnant women
2013-05-09
SABC
DA in Western Cape ‘proud of successful NHI pilot site’
2013-05-09
Business Day
Competition Commission to probe healthcare costs, says Patel
2013-05-07
BusinessDay
'Let private skills come to NHI's aid'
2013-05-03
Mail&Guardian
Doctors give NHI a qualified thumbs up
2013-05-03
NULL
Playing catch-up to immunise kids against polio and measles
2013-05-03
BusinessDay
School toilets in shocking state
2013-05-02
Health-e News
Public health facilities in a dire state
2013-04-30
Health-e News
Mpumalanga district falling behind NSP targets
2013-04-30
Health-e News
Childhood Immunisation Campaign to avert diseases and deaths
2013-04-30
The National Department of Health
SA joins global bid to publish all clinical studies
2013-04-29
Business Day
Wits Faculty of Health Science Professor receives South Africa’s highest honour
2013-04-29
Health-e News
NHI pioneers new payment system
2013-04-26
Mail&Guardian
Health publications awards for UCT students
2013-04-26
UCT News
Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim awarded the Order of Mapungubwe
2013-04-26
Health-e News
Mobile Xhosa translator helps the medicine go down
2013-04-26
University of Cape Town
40% of W Cape high school kids smoke
2013-04-25
Health-e News
World Malaria Day: Gold speeds up malaria diagnosis
2013-04-25
Health-e News
No immunisation at Limpopo clinics, hospitals
2013-04-25
Health-e News
Durban gets International Aids Congress for second time
2013-04-25
IOL
SA making progress in tackling HIV – Motlanthe
2013-04-25
SANews.gov.za
Community hopes SANAC meeting will strengthen commitment to HIV
2013-04-24
Health-e News
Awards for scientists for work on HIV/AIDS
2013-04-23
Business Day
MSF calls for cheaper child vaccines
2013-04-23
Health-e News
Africa Health Forum 2013: Finance and Capacity for Results
2013-04-22
UNAIDS
INTERVIEW-South Africa seeks to close drug patent loophole
2013-04-22
Reuters
Sanac hopes for three-million on ARVs by 2015
2013-04-21
Mail&Guardian
AIDS council adopts National Strategic Plan for HIV, TB
2013-04-19
Business Day
ARVs alone won't save HIV infected mothers
2013-04-19
Mail&Guardian
Dept of Health withholding National AIDS Vaccine Plan
2013-04-18
Health-e News
HIV in breastmilk spikes at weaning
2013-04-17
Nature
Medical student intake to be upped
2013-04-17
The New Age
South African clinics already achieving zero new HIV infections in children
2013-04-17
Aidsmap
Health systems failing newborns
2013-04-16
Health-e News
Simple antiseptic can save newborn lives
2013-04-16
Health-e News
Roadmap to tackle newborn deaths
2013-04-15
Health-e News
WHO/UNICEF: New plan to address pneumonia and diarrhoea could save 2 million children a year
2013-04-12
WHO
Fewer South Africans dying of HIV/AIDS, but more of diabetes
2013-04-11
Health-e News
TB remains leading killer in SA
2013-04-11
Mail & Guardian
28% of schoolgirls HIV positive stat incorrect: Health Department
2013-04-10
TimesLive
People on ART have near normal life expectancies
2013-04-10
Health-e News
Sick hospitals get new heads
2013-04-09
The New Age
Single antiretroviral pill launched
2013-04-08
Business Day
Fixed-dose combination ARVs: Everything you need to know
2013-04-08
SANews.gov.za
Global Fund Targets $15 Billion to Effectively Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
2013-04-08
Global Fund
State consolidates HIV treatment
2013-04-05
Mail & Guardian
Salt sellers shaken by Motsoaledi's rules
2013-04-05
Mail & Guardian
SA-Cuba deal ‘on track’
2013-04-04
The New Age
Madiba's neighbours are worst off
2013-04-04
Health-e News
Preparing for National Health Insurance
2013-04-03
Health-e News
Poor services undermine HIV treatment programme
2013-04-03
Health-e News
OR Tambo bottom of district pile
2013-04-03
Health-e News
Unhealthy climate
2013-04-03
Health-e News
Gold miners with work-related TB neglected for too long
2013-03-28
AlertNet
One pill a day keeps HIV away
2013-03-27
Health-e News
SA lands massive TB grant
2013-03-27
Health-e News
TB revaccination plan on the cards for SA’s teenagers
2013-03-26
Business Day
TB testing in South Africa rolling out slowly
2013-03-26
IRIN
Quest for a TB vaccine
2013-03-25
Health-e News
Southern Africa cracks down on TB in mines
2013-03-25
IRIN
Matsoso defends results of health facilities audit
2013-03-25
Business Day
Government to tackle TB treatment for inmates
2013-03-24
Health-e News
UNAIDS calls for Zero parallel systems for HIV and TB
2013-03-24
UNAIDS
Further resistance to TB drugs identified in SA
2013-03-22
Health-e News
Public health failing patients – audit
2013-03-21
Health-e News
Sadc has less than 1,000 days to meet millennium goal on TB and HIV
2013-03-20
Business Day
Motsoaledi defends strict regulations
2013-03-20
Business Day
African Health Ministers Commit to Ramped Up TB/HIV Treatment
2013-03-20
Voice of America
Health minister to 'tighten the noose on smokers'
2013-03-18
Mail & Guardian
World Health Organization and Global Fund cite tuberculosis threat
2013-03-18
WHO
Wits launches Institute for Malaria
2013-03-18
Health-e News
Gauteng health woes continue despite MEC assurances
2013-03-15
Health-e News
Health sector cleared for surgery
2013-03-15
Mail & Guardian
Older men blamed for high HIV rates among schoolgirls
2013-03-14
Mail & Guardian
Minister mulls Russia training for SA doctors
2013-03-14
Business Day
Minister unveils PhD programme
2013-03-14
IOL
Ban tells public health educators to get involved in post-2015 development agenda
2013-03-14
UN
Motsoaledi charts five-year strategy for nursing profession
2013-03-12
IOL
MPs set deadline for health insurance funding plan
2013-03-12
Business Day
Commission closes in on health care
2013-03-11
IOL
No pills for chronic sufferers
2013-03-11
The New Age
Motsoaledi targets tobacco, liquor industries
2013-03-11
Health-e News
Department of Health seeks to standardise nursing training
2013-03-11
Business Day
Gauteng health reports paint conflicting pictures
2013-03-11
Financial Mail
HIV campaign launched
2013-03-08
New Age
E Cape demands better health services
2013-03-08
Health-e News
Global Fund’s Executive Director First Visit to South Africa
2013-03-08
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Has HIV funding revived lagging health systems?
2013-03-06
IRIN
Women ‘not keen on HIV prevention methods’
2013-03-05
Business Day
Section27 criticises Gauteng health turnaround plan
2013-03-05
Business Day
Gauteng: Calls for accountability after death and disability
2013-03-05
Health-e News
‘Functional cure for HIV’: Dare we hope?
2013-03-05
Daily Maverick
A message from Section27 & TAC: Shape up or lawyer up, GP health
2013-03-05
Daily Maverick
Disappointment in HIV prevention trial
2013-03-05
PlusNews
HIV cure? Not really, say experts
2013-03-04
Mail & Guardian
Big prevention blow as women reject one-a-day ARV
2013-03-04
Health-e News
Anti-AIDS pill, vaginal gel unsuitable for Africa: study
2013-03-04
Reuters
Health MEC: turn-around strategy has helped Gauteng settle R4.2bn in accruals
2013-03-02
Mail & Guardian
Economic policy: The poor still lose
2013-03-01
Mail & Guardian
The Global Fund launches new funding model to support countries in responding to HIV, TB and malaria
2013-03-01
UNAIDS
NHI affordability depends on rate of future growth
2013-02-28
Business Day
Budget 2013: Gordhan may raise taxes to fund NHI - but not yet
2013-02-28
Mail & Guardian
Budget: Focus on NHI
2013-02-28
Health-e News
Health to get extra to spend on TB diagnosis and HIV
2013-02-28
Business Day
Global Fund announces first new grants under new model
2013-02-28
PlusNews
Minister: Slow start to NHI
2013-02-26
Health-e News
UNAIDS and UNDP back proposal to allow least-developed countries to maintain and scale up access to essential medicines
2013-02-26
UNAIDS
MPs question handling of National Health Insurance project
2013-02-25
Business Day
Study bolsters case for efficacy, cost-effectiveness of antiretrovirals
2013-02-25
Business Day
Gauteng health department to ask SARS to probe overtime
2013-02-25
Business Day
Health minister’s NHI trauma, tears
2013-02-23
IOL
Government’s ARV programme ‘increasing life expectancy’
2013-02-22
Business Day
Alcohol advertising ban ‘not feasible’
2013-02-22
Business Day
Viable NHI pilot results soon: Motsoaledi
2013-02-22
IOL
Government encouraged by drop in new HIV infections in KZN
2013-02-22
Government Communications and Information System
WHO/World Bank convene ministerial meeting to discuss best practices for moving forward on universal health coverage
2013-02-19
WHO
NHI project to focus on healthcare for pupils
2013-02-19
Business Day
ARVs eat Health’s budget
2013-02-18
The Witness
State targets delivery in NHI pilots
2013-02-18
IOL
Working together for better health estimates
2013-02-15
WHO
NHI clinic operates out of a couple of tents
2013-02-14
Times Live
Clicks & Western Cape in health-care partnership
2013-02-14
Financial Mail
Zuma speaks on Health
2013-02-14
Health-e News
Minister wants to stop patient rip-offs
2013-02-14
Mail and Guardian
State has soured our relationship with communities, say doctors and nurses
2013-02-12
Business Day
Pregnant women, partners urged to visit clinics
2013-02-12
SANews
Value-for-money drug guide raises industry doubts
2013-02-11
Business Day
R330m health scandal revealed
2013-02-10
IOL
UNAIDS to collaborate with HSRC in HIV prevention research and policy development
2013-02-08
UNAIDS
Risk and opportunity for Aids-affected children in South Africa
2013-02-08
thesouthafrican.com
Limpopo clinic without immunisation meds for months
2013-02-07
Health-e News
Plans for public hospitals raising eyebrows
2013-02-06
Business Day
KZN hospitals to be absorbed by state
2013-02-06
IOL
Poor hospital management leads to troubled health system
2013-02-06
Financial Mail
Study aims to close the HIV tap
2013-02-06
Health-e News
Extra-couple relationships a significant driver of HIV epidemic
2013-02-06
Health-e News
Life expectancy reduced due to HIV/Aids – Motsoaledi
2013-02-05
The Citizen Online
Patients protest over cancer services
2013-02-04
Health-e News
TB vaccine fails
2013-02-04
Health-e News
New academy ‘must set benchmark for healthcare management in SA’
2013-02-04
Business Day
Babies not protected by new TB vaccine, trials show
2013-02-04
Business Day
State to take over McCord Hospital in KwaZulu-Natal
2013-01-31
Business Day
Condoms, HIV tests for KZN schools
2013-01-31
IOL
Health communication platform launches in South Africa
2013-01-31
BizCommunity
Deaths likely following Mthatha depot shambles
2013-01-30
Health-e News
Nelspruit hospital without water, 4 weeks now
2013-01-30
Health-e News
HIV patients stranded as PEPFAR funds dry up
2013-01-29
Health-e News
Government needs all health workers for NHI: Chetty
2013-01-28
SABC News
Groote Schuur Hospital celebrates 75 years of excellent work
2013-01-28
SABC News
President of South Africa says Africa must deal effectively with HIV to reduce maternal mortality on the side-lines of the African Union Summit
2013-01-28
UNAIDS
R80bn a year more needed for NHI
2013-01-25
Times Live
State cancels plan to cut Western Cape health grants
2013-01-25
Business Day
Silent killer lurks in miners' lungs
2013-01-25
Mail and Guardian
Minister lashes duo over Cape hospitals
2013-01-25
IOL
Cutting the McCord: Durban's hospital finally loses the battle
2013-01-24
Daily Maverick
McCord’s future in the balance
2013-01-24
IOL
South African Hospital Receives Innovative Service Delivery Award for Implementation of Medicines Management Software
2013-01-24
Management Science for Health (MSH)
Hospital grant for Western Cape cut
2013-01-23
Business Day
State grants pharmaceutical companies a 5.8% price increase
2013-01-23
Business Day
Brimstone ‘still keen on private hospitals’
2013-01-23
Business Day
Western Cape teaching hospitals’ funds ‘will not be cut’
2013-01-23
Business Day
McCord Hospital chiefs to meet MEC to determine its future
2013-01-22
Business Day
Cape health boss warns on hospital takeovers
2013-01-21
Business Day
New HIV infections are falling dramatically in Africa
2013-01-21
UN
McCord Hospital to close - report
2013-01-20
IOL
102 hospital chiefs appointed
2013-01-20
IOL
Province health vacancies for doctors, nurses ‘shocking’
2013-01-17
Business Day
Problematic Durban hospital may close
2013-01-17
IOL
Health Minister announces the Appointment of Hospital CEO`s today
2013-01-17
National Department of Health
Cadres make way for new hospital CEOs
2013-01-17
Business Day
Province health vacancies for doctors, nurses ‘shocking’
2013-01-17
Business Day
Measles deaths fall but vaccine gaps threaten progress -WHO
2013-01-17
Reuters
2012 Health Overview
2013-01-14
The New Age
SA signs WHO treaty against tobacco smuggling
2013-01-14
Health-e News
BRICS Ministers of Health call for renewed efforts to face HIV and global health challenges
2013-01-11
UNAIDS
State’s effort on HIV/AIDS bearing fruit, says Old Mutual
2013-01-10
Business Day
South African medical school seeks to combat shortage of rural doctors
2013-01-09
The Guardian
Council nod to little-tested killer-TB drug
2013-01-08
Business Day
E Cape Health Dept recruits more doctors
2013-01-02
SABC News

2012

Hospitals’ high infant death rate blamed on doctor shortage
2012-12-18
Business Day
New WHO guidelines urge decriminalization of sex work
2012-12-18
PlusNews
MCC continues to deny critical DR-TB drug
2012-12-14
Health-e News
The HIV prevention agenda
2012-12-13
PlusNews
Department of Health publishes baby milk ad controls
2012-12-13
Business Day
UN adopts 'momentous' resolution on universal healthcare
2012-12-13
The Guardian
SA health system still stuck in Polokwane
2012-12-12
Business Day
Gauteng takes over health ‘turnaround’
2012-12-11
Business Day
State to focus on areas of HIV prevalence
2012-12-11
Business Day
AIDS drugs cut SA’s maternal death rate
2012-12-10
Business Day
Rising fees at public hospitals hit patients hard
2012-12-10
Business Day
Increase in Mpuma HIV, syphilis infections
2012-12-10
IOL
ECape moves to restore ARV supply
2012-12-10
IOL
MSF step in to handle ARV crisis in Eastern Cape
2012-12-10
Health-e News
SA’s HIV epidemic ‘has stabilised’
2012-12-10
Business Day
Counting progress on AIDS response
2012-12-08
Health-e News
SA's spectacular reversal in fight against Aids
2012-12-07
Mail and Guardian
Raising public health care resources
2012-12-06
Financial Mail
SA Cancer registry not updated for eight years
2012-12-05
Mail and Guardian
Stories of hope in the fight against HIV/Aids
2012-12-01
Mail and Guardian
Clubbing together for treatment
2012-11-30
Health-e News
South Africa’s savings in procurement of antiretroviral drugs to increase access to treatment for people living with HIV
2012-11-30
UNAIDS
New blueprint charts PEPFAR’s future
2012-11-30
UNAIDS
SA reverses decade-long trend of rising death rates
2012-11-29
Business Day
Minister looks into establishing regulated pricing
2012-11-29
Business Day
Finally, SA announces single pill for HIV
2012-11-29
Health-e News
World AIDS Day 2012: Closing in on global HIV targets
2012-11-29
WHO
State to introduce three-in-one AIDS pill
2012-11-29
Business Day
Good disease management programmes are imperative
2012-11-29
Business Day
New centre for special-needs children in KZN
2012-11-29
Health-e News
Spending Well on Wellness: HIV/AIDS and TB Budget Monitoring at Local Level in South Africa
2012-11-28
NGOPulse
Officials ‘behind Limpopo health woes’
2012-11-27
Business Day
100 years of failure to control TB transmission
2012-11-27
Health-e News
Healthcare has a poor prognosis
2012-11-26
Business Day
More important to get patients on sustainable, affordable drugs
2012-11-26
Health-e News
Free health services at stores
2012-11-22
IOL
UNAIDS: Less children HIV infected
2012-11-21
Health-e News
UNAIDS: Stigma remains a concern
2012-11-21
Health-e News
‘Students will help NHI rollout after Cuba training’
2012-11-21
The New Age
UNAIDS reports a more than 50% drop in new HIV infections across 25 countries as countries approach the 1000 day deadline to achieve global AIDS targets
2012-11-20
UNAIDS
New Global Fund executive director on the Fund’s future
2012-11-20
PlusNews
Life plans for 1,000 more hospital beds
2012-11-19
Business Day
TB response failing children
2012-11-16
Plus News
Injecting reality into immunisation
2012-11-16
Mail and Guardian
Department baffled by vaccination rates
2012-11-16
Business Day
Two-thirds of SA women use contraceptives — UN survey
2012-11-15
Business Day
HIV: Search for safe contraception receives a boost
2012-11-15
Health-e News
Govt on track to reach ARV roll-out target
2012-11-14
SANews
South African women’s use of contraceptives higher than global average
2012-11-14
Business Day
Tutu TB research centre wins major award
2012-11-13
Health-e News
DR-TB: urgent need to respond to growing global crisis
2012-11-13
Medecins sans Frontieres
African leaders should prioritise immunisation
2012-11-12
Health-e News
Fighting the scourge of non-communicable diseases
2012-11-12
Health-e News
Health minister mends fences with private sector
2012-11-09
Business Day
WHO Member States make progress on noncommunicable diseases
2012-11-09
WHO
Mental healthcare in decline
2012-11-09
Mail and Guardian
Public, private healthcare sectors sign ‘historic’ pact
2012-11-08
Business Day
Cuban med schools for KZN
2012-11-08
IOL
New reports show slight growth in philanthropic funding for AIDS–More robust response needed
2012-11-08
UNAIDS
Academy to train health managers
2012-11-07
Health-e News
Academy to improve the health service
2012-11-07
Health-e News
Mediclinic focuses on NHI rollout costs
2012-11-07
Business Day
Clinical trials ‘need more African cash’ — Motsoaledi
2012-11-06
Business Day
‘Lack of security driving nurses away’
2012-11-06
IOL
Curbing TB in SA’s prisons a priority
2012-11-05
Business Day
Easy patents cost patients
2012-11-05
PlusNews
HPCSA axes thousands from its register
2012-11-05
Health-e News
Firms to the rescue in 'health compact'
2012-11-04
Business Day
HSRC chief ‘worried’ about health spending decline
2012-11-01
Business Day
Health Minister launches health academy
2012-11-01
National Department of Health
Pepsodent Invests in Social Upliftment
2012-11-01
Unilever
Governments failing to address cervical cancer
2012-10-31
Plus News
High Level Taskforce for women, girls and HIV calls for accelerated efforts to protect the rights and wellbeing of young women and girls in South Africa
2012-10-31
UNAIDS
Census findings on health
2012-10-31
Health-e News
Hope that NHI will cure ills
2012-10-30
IOL
UN commends SA on HIV/Aids efforts
2012-10-28
IOL News
New test to improve HIV diagnosis in poor countries
2012-10-28
Reuters
NHI funding proposals ‘due out by February’
2012-10-26
Business Day
Aids takes heavier toll on men
2012-10-26
Mail and Guardian
Burying the ghost of past AIDS policies
2012-10-25
Business Day
More money for HIV/Aids programmes
2012-10-25
The Citizen Online
Public health to receive funding injection next year
2012-10-25
Business Day
HIV vaccine ‘must come from SA’
2012-10-23
Business Day
Two women unlock possible key to HIV vaccine
2012-10-23
PlusNews
Hospitals ‘improving slightly’
2012-10-23
The New Age
SA antibody breakthrough ‘brings HIV vaccine closer’
2012-10-22
Business Day
Antibodies offer AIDS vaccine clue
2012-10-22
Health-e News
Clinic services improve under new management
2012-10-21
Health-e News
Condom drive stirs South Africa's worries
2012-10-19
The New Age
Life expectancy rises as HIV plans kick in
2012-10-18
Business Day
‘HIV-Aids situation stabilising’
2012-10-18
The New Age
Patients suffer as EC hospital workers' strike
2012-10-18
Health-e News
Great disparity in lives of SA children
2012-10-18
Health-e News
Uneven progress in global TB fight
2012-10-17
PlusNews
ITU and WHO launch mHealth initiative to combat noncommunicable diseases
2012-10-17
The WHO
International honour for HIV/Aids expert
2012-10-16
IOL
‘Hospitals are sick’
2012-10-16
The New Age
New TB vaccine on the horizon
2012-10-16
PlusNews
Spotlight on the role of the EU in achieving universal health coverage in Africa
2012-10-16
UNAIDS
Drug firms get ready to bid for state’s new AIDS tender
2012-10-12
Business Day
Zuma launches school health scheme
2012-10-11
IOL
Better health for learners
2012-10-11
BuaNews
Straight talk with Fareed Abdullah, head of the South African AIDS council
2012-10-11
PlusNews
Gauteng head of health is leaving, after all
2012-10-10
Health-e News
National Health Laboratory Service still struggling with tardy provincial payments
2012-10-10
Business Day
UKZN launches research centre to tackle HIV and TB
2012-10-10
University of KZN
Revamped AIDS council makes its debut
2012-10-09
PlusNews
SA needs more scientists: minister
2012-10-09
IOL
Circumcision beneficial for women too
2012-10-08
Health-e News
Motsoaledi shares his plans
2012-10-08
Health-e News
Public health call centre coming
2012-10-08
The New Age
Controversy over condoms at school
2012-10-08
IOL
Council to get tough on medical schemes
2012-10-08
Business Day
Choice facts about condoms
2012-10-08
Times Live
Motsoaledi endorses ‘KwaZulu-Natal approach’ to HIV fight
2012-10-05
Business Day
UCT professor receives international grant for TB research
2012-10-02
BizNews
E Cape doctors welcome NHI despite fears
2012-10-01
SABC News
South Africa gets ready for HIV vaccine trial
2012-10-01
Health-e News
Impact of gender inequality on the vulnerable
2012-10-01
The New Age
Healthcare 'too costly'
2012-09-25
Times Live
Hospital crises: Litigation looms in Eastern Cape
2012-09-25
Health-e News
Gauteng becoming safe for pregnant women
2012-09-25
Gauteng Department of Health
The Global Fund adopts new funding model
2012-09-25
PlusNews
‘Mr Fix-it’ appointed to sort out Addington Hospital
2012-09-24
IOL
ARV clubs are an effective way of relieving the system
2012-09-21
The Citizen Online
HIV budgets come under pressure
2012-09-21
Mail and Guardian
Motsoaledi urges pvt hospitals to play ball
2012-09-20
Health-e News
Matsoso wants to contract pvt GPs
2012-09-20
Health-e News
Health insurance regulations ‘provide inadequate protection’
2012-09-20
Business Day
Water is life for HIV
2012-09-19
The New Age
MCC continue to delay lifesaving drug
2012-09-18
Health-e News
Taking HIV testing to homes
2012-09-18
Health-e News
Light shines at the end of the HIV tunnel
2012-09-14
Mail and Guardian
Health minister slams 'tender care' system
2012-09-13
Mail and Guardian
Outcry over hospital closure
2012-09-11
Times Live
Health departments on road to recovery
2012-09-11
Times Live
Global South leads the way towards universal healthcare coverage
2012-09-11
IRIN
Teenage pregnancy: girls exchange sex for love
2012-09-11
Health-e News
Neutral cost research a must, says Motsoaledi
2012-09-10
Business Day
We will stop operating, warn doctors
2012-09-10
IOL
Tuberculosis explosion in South Africa blamed on weak public health system
2012-09-10
The Guardian
TB fight goes digital
2012-09-07
The New Age
Motsoaledi: South Africa's healthcare declining
2012-09-07
Mail and Guardian
Rural hospitals in terminal crisis
2012-09-07
Mail and Guardian
Motsoaledi welcomes inquiry into private healthcare
2012-09-07
Business Day
Gauteng: Life is not a choice
2012-09-07
Health-e News
Mother to child HIV transmission at an all time low
2012-09-07
The New Age
Many too poor to access free health services
2012-09-06
Health-e News
Increased mortality in men unrelated to HIV
2012-09-05
Health-e News
Health risks facing urban population
2012-09-05
Health-e News
‘Sicker’ medical scheme members ‘behind cost rise’
2012-09-05
Business Day
Important change to TB guidelines
2012-09-04
Health-e News
Taking healthcare’s competition pulse
2012-09-04
Business Day
Global Fund boosts essential services
2012-09-04
Plus News
NHI: more mobile clinics for KZN
2012-09-03
East Coast Radio
Expanding prepayment is key to universal health coverage
2012-09-03
The WHO
Healthcare pricing forum may be set up only after inquiry
2012-09-02
IOL
Fears over health units
2012-08-31
Times Live
Thousands of babies saved through HIV prevention programme
2012-08-31
BuaNews
Cellphones AIDS tests studied in S.Africa, S.Korea
2012-08-31
AFP
TB drug resistance a fast-growing problem, researchers warn
2012-08-30
The New Age
Recall of Retired Nurses
2012-08-30
Northwest Department of Health
Public hospitals ‘are not ready for NHI’
2012-08-30
IOL
Rates of extensively drug resistant TB grow
2012-08-30
Plus News
Alarming levels of drug-resistant TB found worldwide
2012-08-30
Reuters
'NHI will benefit the entire region'
2012-08-30
Mail&Guardian
UCT scientists make malaria breakthrough
2012-08-29
Health-e News
Hold state accountable for TB infections in prison, court told
2012-08-29
Business Day
KZN health rejects concerns over circumcision device
2012-08-29
Times Live
TAC voices Tara KLamp circumcision concerns
2012-08-29
Mail and Guardian
Scopa refuses to approve provincial health department's budget for next year
2012-08-28
Sowetan
Anxious times for HIV patients as US cuts aid
2012-08-28
Business Day
Single dose HIV pill approved in US
2012-08-28
IOL
Homegrown malaria drug could offer single-dose cure
2012-08-28
Business Day
HIV-positive Sterilised without consent
2012-08-28
The New Age
Ex-prisoner sues over TB
2012-08-27
Times Live
New bid to curb birth mortality rate
2012-08-27
The New Age
Dudley Lee v Minister of Correctional Services, what will it mean for South Africa?
2012-08-27
Health-e News
Gauteng accelerates spending to meet service delivery obligations
2012-08-27
BuaNews
Phelophepa health train rolls into Limpopo
2012-08-27
BuaNews
FDA approves new combination pill for HIV treatment for some patients
2012-08-27
US Food and Drug Administration
‘Tainted milk’ from wet nurse HIV risk
2012-08-26
IOL
Gauteng counsellors get paid - slowly
2012-08-23
Health-e News
Health director-general replaces compensation commissioner
2012-08-22
Business Day
Private doctors, hospitals to be probed
2012-08-22
Money Web
Clash over HIV drug's 'success'
2012-08-17
Mail and Guardian
Private docs called on to work at state clinics
2012-08-16
IOL
Dearth of nurses hits healthcare service hard
2012-08-16
The New Age
Nurses as effective as doctors in treating HIV patients
2012-08-15
Health-e News
Doctors’ fury over new fees
2012-08-15
The New Age
Health board withdraws controversial tariff guidelines
2012-08-15
Business Day
NHI could take 15 to 25 years
2012-08-15
News 24
Gauteng premier seeks hospital review
2012-08-15
IOL
Gauteng health MEC praises his staff
2012-08-14
Business Day
Doctors up in arms over council’s tariff guidelines
2012-08-14
Business Day
Health Bill gets the nod from MPs
2012-08-14
IOL
Price for rapid TB test slashed
2012-08-08
Health-e News
Clinton, Motsoaledi sign deal on US exit from funding for AIDS fight
2012-08-08
Business Day
BATSA fails in its legal challenge to tobacco law.
2012-08-07
National Council Against Smoking
Western Cape health pilots patient complaint line
2012-08-06
Health-e News
‘Ways to slash medical scheme costs’
2012-08-05
IOL
Campaign to fight maternal deaths
2012-08-02
The Citizen Online
HPCSA acts to curb specialist fees’ free-for-all
2012-08-01
IOL
Task team to probe graft at Gauteng health
2012-08-01
Business Day
Nursing colleges to get R1.2bn upgrade
2012-07-31
IOL
Minister warns of soaring health costs
2012-07-31
Business Report
Health: SA ranks lowest of Brics members
2012-07-31
News 24
Minister says NHI will be good medicine
2012-07-31
The New Age
Namibia court in landmark HIV ruling
2012-07-30
Telegraph
Minister warns of booze ‘havoc’
2012-07-28
IOL
African leaders highlight progress and challenges in HIV responses
2012-07-26
UNAIDS
How lack of funding affects AIDS programmes
2012-07-26
Health-e News
Drug trial results hint at incredible breakthrough in TB fight
2012-07-25
Mail and Guardian
HIV/AIDS: New ways to fund the fight
2012-07-25
Plus News
Aids awareness works, says local survey
2012-07-25
IOL
Minister encouraged by public’s attitude towards HIV prevention
2012-07-25
Business Day
ARVs effective as an HIV prevention tool
2012-07-25
Business Day
Hopeful results from study of new TB drug cocktails
2012-07-24
Business Day
The impact of communication on HIV
2012-07-24
Health-e News
Resistance to AIDS drugs shows in parts of Africa
2012-07-23
Times Live
US to reduce support for HIV/AIDS fight
2012-07-23
Business Day
Better paediatric HIV formulations
2012-07-23
PlusNews
Medical aid efforts fail to keep fraud in check
2012-07-23
Business Day
AIDS 2012: Making sure countries really own their national response to AIDS
2012-07-23
UNAIDS
Drug-resistant HIV 'on increase' in sub-Saharan Africa
2012-07-22
BBC News
Two UKZN researchers among Sub-Saharan African fellowship winners
2012-07-21
The New Age
WHO issues guidelines on PrEP
2012-07-20
PlusNews
Voluntary 'snip' tops HIV agenda at Aids conference
2012-07-20
Mail and Guardian
SA ‘on track’ to reduce mother-to-child transmission
2012-07-20
Business Day
Drop in mother-to-child HIV transmission hailed
2012-07-19
Mail and Guardian
More babies saved from HIV infection in 2011, ‘thanks to early treatment’
2012-07-19
Business Day
AIDS Deaths Drop as Global Access to HIV Drugs Expand
2012-07-18
Business Day
4 000 HIV patients in danger
2012-07-18
IOL
AIDS deaths worldwide dropping as access to drugs improves
2012-07-18
Reuters
South Africa Set for Key Role at Aids 2012
2012-07-17
AllAfrica.com
Inequalities affect health
2012-07-17
Health-e News
SA docs welcome US approval of ARV as a prevention tool
2012-07-17
Health-e News
SA to play central role at AIDS2012
2012-07-17
Health-e News
State wants South Africans to halve salt intake, but allows more time
2012-07-16
Business Day
African Union adopts new roadmap to accelerate progress in HIV, TB and malaria responses
2012-07-16
UNAIDS
Drug patent war threatens SA healthcare
2012-07-12
Mail and Guardian
HIV trials show drastically different results
2012-07-12
IOL
Activists protest as Novartis ruling approaches
2012-07-12
Plus News
Gauteng devises health bill plan
2012-07-11
Business Day
National Health Insurance falls short on health workers
2012-07-11
Plus News
Pills to prevent HIV raise many questions: studies
2012-07-11
AFP
UCT and government to formalise agreement regarding medical training
2012-07-11
UCT
NHI rollout to go ahead despite private sector opposition
2012-07-10
The New Age
DG: Health budgets first to go when crises hit
2012-07-10
Health-e News
Minister gears up for NHI battle
2012-07-09
Health-e News
Five years to strengthen NHI foundations
2012-07-09
The New Age
SA pulls the plug on blacklisted HIV testing kits
2012-07-09
Mail and Guardian
AIDS response must be guided by human rights and justice
2012-07-09
Health-e News
Gauteng health department finally pays up
2012-07-08
Mail and Guardian
Doctors will get NHI pay — minister
2012-07-06
Business Day
Treasury need to come to NHI party: McIntyre
2012-07-06
Health-e News
PHC success relies on CHWs being able to do more
2012-07-06
Health-e News
South Africa’s National Health Insurance Sites Underfunded
2012-07-06
IPS
HIV treatment now reaching more than 6 million people in sub-Saharan Africa
2012-07-06
UNAIDS
Meetings aim to address root causes of poor health
2012-07-04
Health-e News
HIV counselling campaign targets N West farming sector
2012-07-04
SABC News
Addington hospital bosses given ultimatum
2012-07-04
IOL
Medical aids fear throttling regulation
2012-07-04
IOL
Health activists for NHA
2012-07-04
The New Age
NHI will not solve SA’s healthcare problems, PwC survey says
2012-07-03
Business Day
Global partnership key to achieving Millennium Development Goals by 2015 – UN report
2012-07-02
UN News
Emergencies only at hospitals’ theatres
2012-06-29
Business Day
Academic hospitals under central control: ANC
2012-06-29
Times Live
Gauteng warns counsellors to return to work
2012-06-28
Health-e News
NHI pilot sites not able to guarantee payouts
2012-06-28
IOL
Northern areas clinics hit by medication crisis
2012-06-28
Herald Online
Second-line HIV therapy effective and durable in South Africa, and adherence support could improve rates of viral suppression
2012-06-27
Aidsmap
Mouse studies show how body helps TB survive
2012-06-27
Health-e News
South African study finds most women disclose HIV status to family, but far fewer to sexual partners
2012-06-27
Aidsmap
PE doctors declare health crisis
2012-06-26
IOL
Domestic violence a driver of HIV
2012-06-22
Mail and Guardian
Eastern Cape: Health staff 'jobs safe'
2012-06-21
The Herald Online
No link seen between contraceptives and higher HIV risk: CDC
2012-06-21
Reuters
State patients to benefit as Roche is persuaded to cut price of cancer drug
2012-06-20
Business Day
First nurses trained to initiate MDR-TB treatment
2012-06-19
Plus News
Overcrowding fuels TB in prisons
2012-06-19
PlusNews
'Race against time' as 50 countries set to miss health-related MDGs
2012-06-18
The Guardian
HIV prevention study under way
2012-06-18
IOL
New TB drug will work with ARVs
2012-06-18
IOL
North West gets ready for NHI
2012-06-18
BuaNews
Lessons learned from Tenofovir shortage
2012-06-17
Health-e News
TAC marches over drugs shortages
2012-06-15
IOL
Concern over high HIV/Aids figures
2012-06-14
IOL
Decentralizing care and treatment for drug-resistant TB
2012-06-14
PlusNews
Alcoholics more likely to get TB
2012-06-14
Health-e News
HIV violations horror report
2012-06-14
Dispatch Online
Deaf or dead? Better drugs needed to stop drug-resistant TB
2012-06-13
Health-e News
Eastern Cape: ‘Master plan’ for rollout of NHI
2012-06-13
The New Age
First Efficacy Trial of a Microbicide Ring to Prevent HIV Is Underway
2012-06-13
International Partnerships for Microcides
Achieving 2015 Targets through Strategic AIDS Financing
2012-06-12
UNAIDS
Pricing Commission to be set up
2012-06-11
BuaNews
The causes of maternal and child deaths
2012-06-11
Health-e News
Nurses to remedy gap
2012-06-11
The New Age
UN Secretary-General presents progress report on AIDS response
2012-06-11
UNAIDS
World Health Organization sets out route map for scale-up of treatment as prevention
2012-06-11
Aidsmap
Business Africa Bringing services to your doorstep
2012-06-08
Mail and Guardian
Tenofovir shortage almost over
2012-06-07
Health-e News
KZN tackles maternal deaths
2012-06-07
BuaNews
Hospital to be rebuilt on new site
2012-06-06
IOL
KwaZulu-Natal: Call for all to support NHI
2012-06-05
The New Age
Relief as Aids drugs go on shelves again
2012-06-05
The New Age
Low potential for NHI success in rural health
2012-06-04
Mail and Guardian
Gauteng earmarks R1.4bn for medicine
2012-06-03
BuaNews
SA not short of ARVs: minister
2012-06-01
IOL
Western Cape: Healthcare to go mobile?
2012-06-01
The New Age
SA-Cuba agreement to boost healthcare
2012-06-01
BuaNews
Fighting non-communicable diseases
2012-06-01
IRIN
Red lights flash for Eastern Cape health
2012-05-31
Business Day
Western Cape calms ARV fears
2012-05-31
Sowetan
Child Support Grants prove critical to reducing child poverty in South Africa
2012-05-31
UNICEF
Interns to boost health dept's human resources
2012-05-31
BuaNews
South Africa scores poorly on “Saving Mothers”
2012-05-30
Health-e News
Shortage of ARVs in six provinces
2012-05-30
The New Age
NHI seen as catch-all solution
2012-05-30
Mail and Guardian
Tenofovir shortages continue
2012-05-30
Health-e News
HIV prevalence beginning to fall in South African children
2012-05-29
Aidsmap
Health minister wants 'four hours a day' from doctors
2012-05-28
Times Live
SA signs deal with Cuba for more doctors
2012-05-28
Business Day
Cuba, SA health deal is in good shape
2012-05-28
Business Day
Minister seeks private doctors
2012-05-28
IOL
65th World Health Assembly closes with new global health measures
2012-05-26
The WHO
WHO target to cut early chronic illness deaths
2012-05-26
AFP
The Paradox of Losing Life While Giving Life in Africa
2012-05-25
IPS
Sama threatens health takeover
2012-05-24
Business Day
UNAIDS and PEPFAR bring together Health Ministers and partners to advance progress in ending new HIV infections in children
2012-05-23
UNAIDS
No nurses for hospital’s new cancer unit
2012-05-23
Business Day
Northern Cape: HIV fight continues
2012-05-23
The New Age
Mine asked to help NHI
2012-05-22
The New Age
South Africa exceeds 2007-11 treatment targets by 50%
2012-05-17
Aidsmap
NHI, crime drive brain drain
2012-05-16
Times Live
North West to spend R11m on NHI pilot
2012-05-16
BuaNews
Cancer services take strain in Gauteng
2012-05-15
Health-e News
Section27, TAC join big pharma bust-up over cancer drug
2012-05-15
Mail and Guardian
Praise for new clinics
2012-05-14
The New Age
Patents vs Access to drugs
2012-05-14
Health-e News
ARV supplies run low across SA
2012-05-14
IOL
Minister checks on preparations for NHI rollout
2012-05-14
The New Age
District health councils launched
2012-05-11
The New Age
Billions owed, so testing is compromised at hospitals
2012-05-10
Business Day
SA growing fatter by the year
2012-05-10
IOL
Global Fund will have US$1.6 billion more
2012-05-10
PlusNews
More drinking water meets global standard — report
2012-05-08
Business Day
South Africa launches campaign to reduce maternal mortality
2012-05-08
UNAIDS
UNAIDS launches "Believe it. Do it." action campaign to help end new HIV infections among children by 2015
2012-05-08
UNAIDS
TALKING HEADS: Shaking up SA’s ailing medical research
2012-05-07
Business Day
Maternal mortality under scrutiny
2012-05-04
Mail and Guardian
HST CELEBRATES ITS 20TH ANNIVERSARY WITH A DIFFERENCE
2012-05-03
Health Systems Trust
Focus on the heart of SA health
2012-05-03
IOL
North West: Public healthcare gets revamped
2012-05-02
The New Age
"We should do more’ to reduce Aids deaths
2012-05-02
NULL
New book tracks the epidemic to its origins
2012-05-02
Plus News
15 Million babies born too soon
2012-05-02
WHO
Minister decries ‘tendercare system’
2012-05-01
The New Age
Fund fighting killer diseases cuts jobs, to focus on 20 countries
2012-05-01
Reuters
HEALTH SYSTEMS TRUST – 20 YEARS’ ON
2012-04-30
Health Systems Trust
Global Fund for AIDS, TB, Malaria "Not in Crisis"
2012-04-26
IPS
A clear vision of better care
2012-04-26
Mail and Guardian
North West: Clinical associates set to boost rural healthcare
2012-04-26
The New Age
SA exceeds NSP targets
2012-04-26
Health-e News
African scientists urged to solve African health problems
2012-04-25
SciDev Net
Global partners launch new plan to control and eliminate measles and rubella
2012-04-24
WHO
Progress in fight against Aids: Motsoaledi
2012-04-24
The New Age
Cancer patent row ‘public health issue’
2012-04-23
Business Day
Tshwane’s poor areas to get NHI first
2012-04-23
IOL
NEIL KIRBY: Is Africa closer to meeting its health targets?
2012-04-23
Business Day
Medical Devices Industry still unhappy with Gauteng
2012-04-23
Health-e News
SA's second health train rolls out
2012-04-19
BizCommunity
UNAIDS welcomes new guidelines which give an additional HIV prevention option to discordant couples
2012-04-19
UNAIDS
US funding for 4 000 HIV patients stopped
2012-04-18
IOL
MCC urged to make drug available
2012-04-17
Health-e News
NHI pilot district profiles
2012-04-17
Health-e News
Health cover regulation out for comment
2012-04-17
IOL
NHI stillborn without doctors
2012-04-17
Times Live
Free circumcisions to fight HIV
2012-04-17
News 24
New Khayelitsha Hospital Officially Opened
2012-04-17
Western Cape Government
Musina Aids Council launched
2012-04-16
Zoutnet
Health department settles debts and introduces sweeping changes
2012-04-16
Sowetan
North West: Three new clinics for rural communities
2012-04-16
The New Age
South Africa's AIDS response: the next 5 years
2012-04-14
The Lancet
20000 calls to EMS are duds
2012-04-13
Dispatch Online
State tender to boost SA pharmaceutical production
2012-04-13
Business Day
Ailing hospital saved
2012-04-12
Times Live
SA's mental health services inadequately resourced
2012-04-12
BuaNews
NHI seeks private health-care sector buy-in
2012-04-12
Financial Mail
NSP 2012 – 2016
2012-04-12
Health-e News
Investing in national TB programmes has a real impact on burden of the disease
2012-04-05
Aidsmap
Gauteng aims big
2012-04-05
Health-e News
SA hospital gets its first digital MRI scanner
2012-04-04
The New Age
World Health Day 2012 - Good health adds life to years
2012-04-03
WHO
SA 'winning war' against HIV in babies
2012-04-02
Times Live
NHI pilot project rolls out
2012-04-02
The New Age
Breastfeeding, Not Formula, for South Africa's HIV-Positive Mothers
2012-04-02
IPS
Finger-pointing as state runs out of AIDS drugs
2012-03-30
Business Day
In a major policy shift, mothers in South Africa are encouraged to exclusively breastfeed instead of using formula
2012-03-30
Unicef
SANAC fires staff
2012-03-30
Health-e News
KZN to test run NHI plan
2012-03-29
IOL
State ‘should be primary healthcare provider’
2012-03-29
Business Day
R33m for NHI pilot projects in KZN
2012-03-29
IOL
Aids ‘genocide’ will cripple SA economy
2012-03-29
IOL
SANAC urges schools to condomise
2012-03-28
The New Age
R14.6bn for Cape health care
2012-03-28
IOL
Western Cape punts its model for public healthcare
2012-03-27
Business Day
Limpopo: Aids ‘thrives on stigma’
2012-03-27
The New Age
SA a hub for research on infectious diseases
2012-03-26
Business live
NHI to benefit thousands in Western Cape
2012-03-26
IOL
No HIV and TB workplace policy, no mining licence
2012-03-26
Plus News
No new HIV infections in 20 years - Motlanthe
2012-03-26
IOL
Gauteng employs new measures to fight TB
2012-03-26
Health-e News
Drug-resistant strains of TB out of control, warn experts
2012-03-25
Mail & Guardian
NHI pilot districts announced
2012-03-24
Health-e News
TB preventative therapy scorecard
2012-03-23
Plus News
Activists call for emergency Global Fund donor meeting
2012-03-23
Plus News
SA makes good strides in TB treatment
2012-03-22
The New Age
10 districts announced for NHI pilot
2012-03-22
Buanews
NHI pilot will focus on district systems
2012-03-22
Business Day
Blueprint for future TB vaccines unveiled
2012-03-21
Plus News
KZN rolls out dodgy circumcision Klamp despite questions
2012-03-20
Health-e News
Interference with health watchdog feared
2012-03-20
Business Day
Bid to fix failing health-care system
2012-03-20
IOL
SA at forefront of search for new TB vaccine
2012-03-20
Business Day
NHI needs both public & private health sectors
2012-03-19
Health-e News
Stability returning to Gauteng Hospitals - DOH
2012-03-19
Politics Web
North West Province: Maternal deaths 'still too high'
2012-03-19
The New Age
Medical scheme members may be at risk
2012-03-19
IOL
SA firm cuts cost of making HIV drug
2012-03-15
Business Day
Premier finds queues at health facilities
2012-03-15
Business Day
North West first province to cure XDR TB
2012-03-13
Buanews
New approaches could fight killer diseases
2012-03-13
Health-e News
Transnet launches new health train
2012-03-12
News 24
Study deflates hopes for daily TB pill
2012-03-09
Business Day
IPT no good for TB control – Thibela study
2012-03-09
Health-e News
Preventative TB trial disappoints
2012-03-09
Plus News
Eastern Cape: SOS for province’s clinics
2012-03-08
The New Age
Newborns continue to die needlessly
2012-03-08
Health-e News
Report confirms donor fatigue for AIDS
2012-03-08
Health-e News
Less talk and more implementing needed on NHI
2012-03-07
Health-e News
NHI: Quality non-negotiable
2012-03-07
Health-e News
Draft regulations on baby formula, foods published
2012-03-07
BuaNews
Positively negative
2012-03-07
IOL
SA miners have worst TB epidemic in the world
2012-03-07
Health-e News
South Africa sets goal of testing all miners for tuberculosis, getting sufferers treated
2012-03-06
Washington Post
Millennium Development Goal drinking water target met
2012-03-06
The World Health Organization
Health Barometer shows slight progress
2012-03-05
Health-e News
More than 900 000 lives saved by protecting people living with HIV from TB
2012-03-02
WHO
Birth control, HIV link
2012-03-02
Times Live
Premier seeks more aid for Gauteng health
2012-03-01
Business Day
Hormonal contraception advice not reaching women
2012-03-01
Plus News
Serious need to clean up health
2012-02-28
Health-e News
A new mental health framework is needed to prioritize action on global mental health
2012-02-28
Plos Medicine
Gauteng health promised 'major shake-up'
2012-02-27
Mail & Guardian
New reports chart progress - and costs - in HIV fight
2012-02-27
Plus News
Med scheme tax credit a step towards NHI
2012-02-26
IOL
Middle class urged to join in HIV survey
2012-02-24
Times Live
Hospital CEOs to reapply for jobs
2012-02-24
Health-e News
HIV/AIDS: Huge numbers
2012-02-24
Health-e News
Doctors could be forced to stay in SA
2012-02-24
IOL
'Why are our hospitals dirty? It is this system called tenders'
2012-02-24
Sowetan
NHI budget comments confuse health researchers
2012-02-24
Mail & Guardian
Motsoaledi starts health overhaul
2012-02-24
Business Day
Health spending gap narrowing
2012-02-24
IOL
Chronic disease and trauma plague SA health system
2012-02-24
Mail & Guardian
SECTION27′s statement on the 2012 Budget Speech
2012-02-24
Section 27
New health facilities to prepare Mpuma for NHI
2012-02-24
BuaNews
PRESS RELEASE: Health Systems Trust releases fIndings of its latest publications
2012-02-23
Health Systems Trust
HIV testing programme for SA universities launched
2012-02-23
West Cape News
HIV and food security
2012-02-23
The New Age
R1bn pumped towards NHI
2012-02-23
BuaNews
Report reveals primary healthcare status in SA
2012-02-23
Buanews
Health minister wants service overhaul
2012-02-23
IOL
KZN districts overtakes E Cape as most deprived
2012-02-23
Health-e News
Lack of hospital transformation plan ‘of concern’, say Treasury
2012-02-23
Health-e News
SA gets boost to fight killer diseases
2012-02-23
IOL
HST Launch of the SAHR 2011 and DHB 2010/11
2012-02-22
Health Systems Trust
Mkhize breathes life into NHI
2012-02-22
Times Live
Gauteng hospital chiefs get more control
2012-02-22
Business Day
KZN winning the Aids battle
2012-02-22
IOL
SOUTH AFRICA: Global Fund monies finally released
2012-02-22
Plus News
NHI first phase to start in 2013
2012-02-22
News24
Critical Budget addresses NHI funding concerns
2012-02-21
Business Live
HIV transmission to KZN children down
2012-02-21
IOL
Motsoaledi launches HIV campaign
2012-02-21
Eyewitness News
Premier says Gauteng is dealing with its health crisis
2012-02-21
Business Day
Gauteng premier announces health restructuring
2012-02-21
Business Day
Motsoaledi takes aim at alcohol adverts, smoking
2012-02-20
Business Day
Mokonyane: Health and social development to split
2012-02-20
Mail & Guardian
Free State: Health sector to be revitalised with 10-Point Plan
2012-02-17
The New Age
Health minister lifts the lid on fat politicians
2012-02-17
Business Day
Health standards compliance ‘vital to NHI plan’
2012-02-16
Business Day
Cash payments help cut HIV infection rate in young women, study finds
2012-02-16
Guardian
Women need access to dual protection—effective contraceptives and HIV prevention options
2012-02-16
UNAIDS
Limpopo increases HIV, Aids treatment facilities
2012-02-16
Buanews
EDITORIAL: State health needs to be fixed first
2012-02-14
Business Day
HIV rate way down thanks to condoms
2012-02-14
Times Live
Healthcare workers going the extra mile for patients
2012-02-14
Mail & Guardian
HIV/AIDS: You, me and HIV
2012-02-14
Plus News
Green Paper needs open discussion
2012-02-13
Leadership
Proper use of clinics ‘can ease burden on hospitals’
2012-02-13
Business Day
Hospital labs open after debt payment
2012-02-13
News 24
AIDS-drug plant to ‘help cut trade deficit’
2012-02-13
Business Day
Trying to cure a sick health system
2012-02-12
Times Live
Medical costs 'criminal'
2012-02-12
Times Live
'An unexpected piece of heaven'
2012-02-10
Mail & Guardian
Half of HIV infected South Africans are child-bearing women
2012-02-10
Times Live
No drugs and labs in Gauteng
2012-02-09
Health-e News
Pensioners set to benefit from NHI
2012-02-09
Business Live
Revamp to set groundwork for NHI
2012-02-09
News 24
'Alarm' at SA pupils' lack of HIV/Aids knowledge
2012-02-09
Mail & Guardian
Global Fund crisis: SA projects face closure
2012-02-09
Health-e News
MDR-TB trials could make a tangible difference for children
2012-02-09
Health-e News
'Tax breaks for medical professionals needed'
2012-02-08
Business Live
Cry the beloved province
2012-02-08
Health-e News
30 medical labs forced to close
2012-02-07
IOL
Aids orphans 'all alone'
2012-02-06
The New Age
Malaria experts to meet in Durban
2012-02-06
IOL
Minister against closure of labs
2012-02-06
Times Live
SA’s health system steadily healing
2012-02-06
NULL
WHO to issue guidance on hormonal contraceptives and HIV
2012-02-03
UNAIDS
No Time to 'Give Up' on HIV-Fighting Gel
2012-02-03
allAfrica.com
Hospitals not disposing waste properly
2012-02-03
IOL
Malaria kills nearly twice as many people than previously thought, but deaths are declining rapidly
2012-02-03
IHME
National immunisation drive
2012-02-03
Health-e News
Health labs hit by cash crisis
2012-02-01
IOL
KZN biggest culprit in lab cash crisis
2012-02-01
IOL
Men who have sex with men may now be the highest-risk group for HIV in Africa, IAVI study suggests
2012-02-01
Aidsmap
Gauteng faces R235m worth of claims
2012-01-30
Sowetan
Gordhan expected to shed light on National Health Insurance scheme
2012-01-29
The Citizen
UNAIDS and PEPFAR welcome the launch of the Business Leadership Council to end new HIV infections among children by 2015
2012-01-27
UNAIDS
HIV-Related Deaths Slow Economy
2012-01-27
IPS
Gauteng Health drags payments to service providers
2012-01-27
Health-e News
E Cape ordered to cut health budget
2012-01-26
News 24
Doctors in limbo as E Cape orders health lockdown
2012-01-26
Mail & Guardian
Hormonal contraception and HIV risk: no increased risk in South African cohort
2012-01-26
aidsmap
Provincial health department in ICU
2012-01-25
Times Live
KZN scientist makes HIV/Aids breakthrough
2012-01-25
IOL
Expect conditional NHI audit grant in Budget
2012-01-25
Times Live
HIV-Aids researcher awarded R6m prize
2012-01-25
The New Age
Rural hospitals buckle as foreign docs delayed
2012-01-25
Health-e News
Expect conditional NHI audit grant in Budget
2012-01-25
Business Live
Shortage of dentists raises risk of cancer
2012-01-24
Times Live
Gauteng pays health suppliers R400m
2012-01-24
Business Day
Gauteng grapples with hospitals and 'haircuts'
2012-01-24
Mail & Guardian
UNAIDS commits its support to the Global Fund and calls for solidarity
2012-01-24
UNAIDS
Global Fund chief quits after funding cuts
2012-01-24
Reuters
Africa winning against Aids
2012-01-23
IOL
SA has lost 4.4m people to Aids - survey
2012-01-23
News 24
SADC countries battling to reach HIV positive people
2012-01-20
Health-e News
Half of All Abortions Now Unsafe, Study Finds
2012-01-19
IPS
Eastern, Southern Africa scale up efforts against high AIDS prevalence
2012-01-19
UN News Centre
Private hospitals warn of job losses
2012-01-19
IOL
New hospital for Khayelitsha
2012-01-18
IOL
Department's debt spells trouble for Gauteng hospitals
2012-01-18
Mail & Guardian
WHO clarifies "totally" drug resistant TB
2012-01-18
Health-e News
UNAIDS Executive Director congratulates President Jacob Zuma of South Africa on progress in the AIDS response
2012-01-18
UNAIDS
R2m bursary scheme to address shortage of doctors
2012-01-17
Buanews
Doctors, dentists slam private health system
2012-01-16
IOL
Childhood obesity on the increase
2012-01-16
IOL
Groundbreaking vaccine research reveals more clues about HIV
2012-01-15
PlusNews
Plan to cut sugar daddies short
2012-01-13
New Age
Doctors must show up or pay up
2012-01-11
IOL
New Coalition Promotes Investment in Health Workers
2012-01-11
VOA News
MATLAKALA MOTLOUNG: Gauteng’s health shows some improvement
2012-01-09
Business Day
KwaZulu-Natal to prioritise health infrastructure
2012-01-04
Business Day
Zuma takes health services to rural KZN
2012-01-03
Buanews
UNICEF plans major expansion of global vaccine programme
2012-01-03
NULL

2011

2011 in review: key health issues
2011-12-30
WHO
Competition Commission may probe healthcare
2011-12-30
Business Day
HIV/AIDS: Ten big stories in 2011
2011-12-29
Plus News
No date set for school HIV testing programme
2011-12-27
Mail & Guardian
Healthcare is failing women
2011-12-20
Mail & Guardian
Nation's health hinges on HIV and NHI policies
2011-12-19
Times Live
A new category of health professionals
2011-12-15
Health-e News
HIV-Aids campaign wins major award
2011-12-14
The New Age
MARINÉ ERASMUS: Debate on NHI must progress beyond ideology
2011-12-14
Business Day
WHO sets new goal in fight against malaria
2011-12-14
Washington Post
EC gets new weapon in war against cancer
2011-12-13
Buanews
Children disproportionately affected by poverty
2011-12-13
Mail & Guardian
Women are the vulnerable HIV link
2011-12-12
Mail & Guardian
Health tax credit plan ‘progressive’
2011-12-12
IOL
First batch of clinical associates graduates
2011-12-09
Business Day
Are we effectively controlling tobacco? A look at the industry’s data
2011-12-09
EpiAnalysis
HIV-positive women still confused about infant-feeding choices
2011-12-09
Plus News
Greater local ownership of HIV research needed
2011-12-09
Plus News
AIDS funding cuts had been coming ‘long ago’ - Motsoaledi
2011-12-09
Health-e News
‘Health is not about deep pockets’
2011-12-08
IOL
New care centre promises better life for HIV sufferers
2011-12-08
The New Age
High-Level Taskforce to tackle gender inequality
2011-12-08
UNAIDS
MCC Fights AIDS and Tuberculosis in Lesotho
2011-12-08
IIP Digital
Strengthening health systems: delivering on the broader health and development agenda
2011-12-07
UNAIDS
Study shows drug blend boosts breast cancer survival
2011-12-07
Mail & Guardian
HRW report puts gender task team under scrutiny
2011-12-07
Mail & Guardian
Quality health essential for NHI
2011-12-07
Buanews
Depression "overlooked" in treating HIV patients
2011-12-07
Plus News
Society for AIDS in Africa unveils its new strategic plan for 2011- 2015
2011-12-06
UNAIDS
New plan to speed up male circumcision
2011-12-06
Plus News
An expanded arsenal against HIV – but money shortages to implement it
2011-12-05
Health-e News
Voice of Government: ‘Let there be no more shame, blame and discrimination’
2011-12-05
The New Age
COP-17: Health ‘first casualty’ of climate change
2011-12-05
Business Day
Sex classes for pre-teens
2011-12-05
Times Live
MSM meeting stirs controversy at HIV conference
2011-12-05
Plus News
Too many faults with NHI proposal, says DA
2011-12-05
Mail & Guardian
International partners call for accelerated access to voluntary medical male circumcision in eastern and southern Africa
2011-12-05
UNAIDS
ICASA leaders’ panel: Keeping the promise in the HIV response
2011-12-05
UNAIDS
ICASA 2011 to focus on ownership, commitment and support to the AIDS response in Africa
2011-12-04
UNAIDS
Breastfeeding policy battles poverty and perception
2011-12-02
Mail & Guardian
Overseeing the wellbeing of medical aids
2011-12-02
Mail & Guardian
Death rate among youth on the decrease in SA
2011-12-02
Mail & Guardian
New AIDS plan aims to go big
2011-12-01
Health-e News
End to Aids both in and out of reach
2011-12-01
IOL
Zuma to launch new HIV plan amid global funding crisis
2011-12-01
Mail & Guardian
Driving back HIV/AIDS
2011-12-01
Mail & Guardian
HIV infections down in N West
2011-12-01
SABC
TB at top of the list of killers
2011-12-01
IOL
Male Circumcision a Route to Gender Equality
2011-12-01
IPS
Country launches new HIV, TB plan
2011-12-01
Plus News
Zuma's new Aids plan to include TB
2011-12-01
Mail & Guardian
Staying alive: Is South Africa's Aids plan working?
2011-11-30
BBC News
HIV spread by men - Motsoaledi
2011-11-30
iafrica
ANN BERNSTEIN and SANDY JOHNSTON: Look again at the role for a transformed private sector
2011-11-30
Business Day
DONALD GIPS: SA moves closer to goal of AIDS-free generation
2011-11-30
Business Day
Husbands a 'big problem' in HIV transmission
2011-11-30
Times Live
HIV rate stable, but teen rates concerning
2011-11-30
Health-e News
Primary schoolchildren need sex ed - minister
2011-11-30
News 24
One in three women at clinics are HIV-positive
2011-11-30
IOL
Funding crunch imperils progress on AIDS
2011-11-30
Reuters Africa
Stats SA records lower number of registered deaths
2011-11-30
Mail & Guardian
Funding shortages dampen fight against Aids
2011-11-30
Mail & Guardian
Health scores grade C
2011-11-30
The New Age
Motsoaledi set to release HIV stats
2011-11-29
IOL
Tender rigging alleged at Gauteng health department
2011-11-29
Mail & Guardian
Breast feeding can prolong infants’ lives
2011-11-29
The New Age
Global Aids fund faces financial crisis
2011-11-28
Mail & Guardian
Sampson’s Afrikan dream
2011-11-28
IOL
Revamped Germiston hospital opened
2011-11-28
Buanews
Study highlights the impact of climate change on children in South Africa
2011-11-28
Unicef
Decline in AIDS funding risks jeopardizing recent gains made by countries
2011-11-27
UNAIDS
Doctor brain drain costs Africa $2 billion
2011-11-25
Reuters
Microbicide gel fails to work in large international trial
2011-11-25
Aidsmap
Police data on gender violence still falls short
2011-11-24
SABC
HIV campaign shows promise
2011-11-24
IOL
TAC facing closure
2011-11-24
Health-e News
Doha+10: More people accessing HIV treatment
2011-11-23
UNAIDS
Ahead of World AIDS day, UNICEF marks the progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS
2011-11-23
Unicef
KZN launches HIV, TB plan
2011-11-23
IOL
Drastic Child Poverty Might Destroy Lesotho’s Future
2011-11-23
IPS
Teenage pregnancy rate declines in Gauteng
2011-11-22
Buanews
SA Aids plan starts to pay dividends
2011-11-21
Health-e News
HIV/AIDS: "Unprecedented progress", despite poor funding
2011-11-21
Plus News
Children most vulnerable to climate change, warns Unicef
2011-11-21
Business Day
Africa sees dramatic improvement in HIV treatment
2011-11-21
Mail & Guardian
Activists urge change to patent laws
2011-11-21
Plus News
Nearly 50% of people who are eligible for antiretroviral therapy now have access to lifesaving treatment
2011-11-21
UNAIDS
African leaders define shared responsibility for the AIDS response
2011-11-20
NULL
Green paper on NHI ‘contains inaccuracies, lacks evidence’
2011-11-18
Business Day
HPV increases risk of HIV - study
2011-11-18
IOL
SA’s tight patent protection ‘drives high drug prices’
2011-11-17
Business Day
R19bn backlog cripples EC health
2011-11-16
Dispatch
World ‘is losing battle against diabetes’
2011-11-15
Business Day
KwaZulu Natal: Province in good health
2011-11-15
The New Age
SA children stunted and obese
2011-11-14
Health-e News
Gauteng health underspends on hospital repairs
2011-11-14
Mail & Guardian
Fear over cancer-inducing baby bottles
2011-11-14
IOL
Q&A: Women play crucial development role in southern Africa
2011-11-13
IOL
RICHARD KAMWI: Redouble efforts to rid Sadc region of malaria
2011-11-11
Business Day
New report will assist in TB fight
2011-11-11
Tne New Age
Time of great change in TB drug development
2011-11-10
Health-e News
Garden grows in Soweto
2011-11-10
Joburg
NHLS needs urgent payment from health depts
2011-11-10
Buanews
Sex workers stuck in HIV nightmare
2011-11-10
IOL
Zille attacked on unsafe sex call
2011-11-10
IOL
New reports show philanthropic funding for AIDS down at pivotal moment in the response
2011-11-10
UNAIDS
US may grant R3.8bn for Aids fight
2011-11-09
The New Age
Zille targets men who don’t use condoms
2011-11-09
Cape Argus
NHI needs ‘fraud-detection tool’ before roll-out
2011-11-09
Business Day
Improved health pricing model needed, say experts
2011-11-09
Business Live
NW focuses on delivering quality health care
2011-11-09
Buanews
Moses Kotane Hospital is the cleanest
2011-11-09
The New Age
Wits scientists working towards neutralising HIV
2011-11-09
Health-e News
MDR-TB remains a difficult diagnosis for children
2011-11-08
Plus News
Delayed Global Fund money a sign of economic times
2011-11-08
Plus News
Superbugs are not going away
2011-11-07
Business Day
NHI roll-out will deliver benefits says KPMG study
2011-11-07
Business Live
The good news about cancer in developing countries
2011-11-05
The Lancet
Benefits of NHI ‘exceed cost’ — KPMG
2011-11-04
Business Day
Minister begins groundwork for NHI
2011-11-04
Business Day
Brazil's Health System Inspires Abroad, Frustrates at Home
2011-11-04
IPS
KZN medical staff scarce
2011-11-03
IOL
Health minister's audit to usher in new NHI pilot era
2011-11-03
Mail & Guardian
Finding a cure is their mission
2011-11-02
IOL
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Door-to-door outreach cuts TB prevalence
2011-11-01
Plus News
Health Minister launches new health data system
2011-11-01
Buanews
Getting to Zero selected as World AIDS Day theme
2011-11-01
NULL
Taking strides to fill the gaps in public health
2011-10-30
Health-e News
HIV/Aids vs family planning
2011-10-29
Mail & Guardian
MDG's - Shifting the focus from quantity to quality
2011-10-28
Buanews
Phasing in of NHI could be key to its success
2011-10-28
Mail & Guardian
HIV high on the agenda at World Health Summit
2011-10-27
UNAIDS
Much needed healthcare facility for Zululand
2011-10-27
Buanews
Health audit ahead
2011-10-26
New Age
Department earmarks R20m for planning phase of NHI
2011-10-26
Business Day
Addressing the needs of young people critical as world population reaches 7 billion, says UNFPA report
2011-10-26
UNAIDS
R 48bn found for priority projects
2011-10-26
IOL
Billions to be spent on public health
2011-10-25
Money Web
Young people to write new UNAIDS strategy on youth and HIV
2011-10-25
UNAIDS
Vaccine could cut risk of malaria in children by 50%
2011-10-24
Mail & Guardian
Improvement of public hospitals key to NHI success
2011-10-24
Health-e News
HIV/AIDS: Global Fund cancels funding
2011-10-24
PlusNews
Global funding for infectious diseases: TB or not TB?
2011-10-22
The Lancet
Reduce Inequalities to Boost Health, WHO Says
2011-10-21
IPS
Zuma calls for faster traditional medicine
2011-10-20
TimesLive
World forum in Brazil seeks to close health equity gaps
2011-10-20
UNAIDS
Global conference to tackle social conditions that drive health inequities
2011-10-19
The WHO News
Specialised eye care centre for KZN children
2011-10-19
BuaNews
Adapting to today’s epidemic: UNESCO launches its new AIDS Strategy
2011-10-18
UNAIDS
Sexual violence among men neglected
2011-10-18
Plus News
Malaria deaths fall over 20% worldwide in last decade
2011-10-18
BBC News
World's first malaria vaccine works in major trial
2011-10-18
Reuters
Governments "still failing" on mental health issues
2011-10-18
IRIN
Lack of skills costs govt dearly
2011-10-17
IOL
Health dept racks up R5.7bn in irregular expenses
2011-10-14
IOL
Parties want Motsoaledi to explain ‘horror’ audit
2011-10-14
Business Day
Joburg adds input on Aids plan
2011-10-14
Joburg City
Medicines Patent Pool helps make antiretroviral medicines more widely available
2011-10-14
UNAIDS
Billions for hospitals to pave way for state’s NHI
2011-10-12
Business Day
Prevention revolution
2011-10-11
Health-e News
Drive for more black bone marrow donors
2011-10-11
Health-e News
HIV counselling not available for the disabled
2011-10-11
IOL
Launch of the Human Resource for Health Strategy
2011-10-11
National Department of Health South Africa
Tuberculosis on the decline for first time ever – UN report
2011-10-11
UN News Centre
Health minister promises more doctors and nurses
2011-10-11
Mail & Guardian
Strategy to address Health Dept's HR
2011-10-11
BuaNews
Questions on Tactic to Prevent H.I.V.
2011-10-10
NY Times
Motsoaledi speaks of 'brutal' private health system
2011-10-09
Mail & Guardian
SA to mark World Mental Health Day
2011-10-09
BuaNews
In Africa prevention is far cheaper than cure
2011-10-07
Mail & Guardian
CT to host conference on sexual violence against women
2011-10-07
BizCommunity
Building knowledge, skills and hope in southern Africa’s schools
2011-10-07
UNAIDS
WHO highlights global underinvestment in mental health care
2011-10-07
WHO
Health minister outlines NHI plan
2011-10-05
IOL
UNAIDS calls for urgent analysis and more research on hormonal contraceptives and HIV infection risk
2011-10-04
UNAIDS
Global war on tobacco far from over
2011-10-04
Health-e News
Auditor-general not happy with Health Department’s books
2011-10-04
IOL
UN-backed Millennium Villages project in Africa launches second phase
2011-10-03
UN News Centre
Contraceptive Used in Africa May Double Risk of H.I.V.
2011-10-03
NY Times
Where innovation meets implementation
2011-10-03
UNAIDS
Time for action, say HIV science roundtable participants
2011-10-03
UNAIDS
Call to spread word about contraception
2011-10-03
Cape Argus
New KwaNokuthula EMS Station Opens
2011-10-03
Cape Gateway
OPINION: When the private health sector falls short
2011-10-03
Business Day
King Goodwill Zwelethini commended on his visionary response to HIV in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
2011-09-30
UNAIDS
KwaZulu Natal adopts a holistic approach to HIV
2011-09-30
UNAIDS
Lessons to be drawn from KwaZulu Natal’s integrated approach to HIV, health and social services
2011-09-30
UNAIDS
Researchers explain VOICE study changes
2011-09-29
Health-e News
HIV/AIDS: Setback for PrEP as branch of trial is halted
2011-09-29
PlusNews
Integrating human rights, gender equality and HIV prevention in national HIV responses
2011-09-27
UNAIDS
‘Younger, dangerous sex’
2011-09-26
IOL
Poor prenatal health ‘primes kids for failure’
2011-09-26
IOL
Gauteng's dept of ill-health
2011-09-26
TimesLive
Doctor shortage to hit NHI
2011-09-25
The Sunday Independent
Introduction of NHI taxes not immediate: Treasury
2011-09-23
TimesLive
How the health department has failed SA's women
2011-09-23
Mail & Guardian
KAREN HOFMAN and STEPHEN TOLLMAN : Diseases that are just as serious as HIV/AIDS
2011-09-23
Business Day
NHI to cut national spend on health care
2011-09-23
Business Report
'Health synergy needs a shot in the arm'
2011-09-23
TimesLive
Mobile testing units show success in linking people to HIV care, treatment
2011-09-23
aidsmap
NHI comment period extended
2011-09-22
BuaNews
NHI plan needs clarity on the "how"
2011-09-22
Health-e
HIV/AIDS and chronic diseases - learning from each other
2011-09-20
PlusNews
UNICEF-backed conference seeks to ensure inclusion of children with disabilities
2011-09-20
United Nations
Disappointing results from two peer education projects in southern Africa
2011-09-20
aidsmap
HIV campaign gets a boost
2011-09-20
Sowetan
WHO report hails efforts to curb maternal deaths
2011-09-20
The Guardian
Little change in SA’s child mortality rate
2011-09-20
IOL
Moves towards a healthy lifestyle
2011-09-19
Health-e
Uniting around a common agenda to address HIV and non-communicable diseases
2011-09-19
UNAIDS
R198m boost for maternal, child health care
2011-09-19
BuaNews
More effort needed to fight lifestyle diseases
2011-09-19
BuaNews
Uniting around a common agenda to address HIV and non-communicable diseases
2011-09-19
UNAIDS
New WHO study details low-cost solutions to help curb the tide on noncommunicable diseases
2011-09-18
WHO
Zuma to attend UNGA66
2011-09-18
BuaNews
Spotlight on lifestyle diseases
2011-09-18
BuaNews
High youth Aids rate 'not result of risky sex'
2011-09-18
TimesLive
SA doctors to the rescue in Somalia
2011-09-18
TimesLive
Comment: Stop dithering at death's door
2011-09-16
Mail & Guardian
Patients air ill feelings over clinic facility
2011-09-16
IOL
AIDS vaccine critical
2011-09-15
Health-e News
Poor access to cancer treatment
2011-09-15
Health-e News
Long wait for cervical cancer help
2011-09-15
Health-e News
Use social media to strengthen health systems
2011-09-15
SciDevNet
WHO maps noncommunicable disease trends in all countries
2011-09-14
WHO
Medical aids ‘owe state hospitals millions’
2011-09-14
IOL
Primary health care gets an EU boost
2011-09-14
Buanews
HIV/AIDS: RV144 vaccine trial - what happens next?
2011-09-14
PlusNews
PEPFAR Announces Largest Study of Combination HIV Prevention
2011-09-14
US Department of State
EU's R1.25bn Aids lifeline
2011-09-13
TimesLive
Health minister eyes 'junk food' industry
2011-09-13
TimesLive
SA gets ready for trial of successful Thai vaccine
2011-09-13
Health-e
Give baby the best – breast milk
2011-09-13
IOL
Rural community to discuss NHI
2011-09-13
Buanews
The George W. Bush Institute, the U.S. Department of State, Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, and UNAIDS announce new women’s health initiative
2011-09-13
UNAIDS
Alcohol warning for pregnant women
2011-09-12
Sowetan
Many die from non-communicable diseases
2011-09-12
The New Age
NHI to address inequity in healthcare system - Health DG
2011-09-12
MoneyWeb
Non-communicable diseases take center stage
2011-09-12
Buanews
Service Delivery: Rural healthcare on track
2011-09-12
The New Age
Pneumonia study begins
2011-09-12
Times Live
Pushing up VAT 'the least damaging way to fund NHI'
2011-09-12
Mail & Guardian
NHI to address inequity in healthcare system - Health DG
2011-09-12
Moneyweb
Time for renewed focus on cancer
2011-09-12
Health-e
Low-Cost Healthcare Goes High-Tech
2011-09-12
IPS News
UNAIDS reiterates critical role of South Africa in AIDS response
2011-09-10
UNAIDS
Medical aids swell
2011-09-09
The New Age
South Africa: CD4 count at time of HIV diagnosis improves retention in care for patients who need ART immediately
2011-09-09
aidsmap
Rise in alcohol-related deaths in diabetics
2011-09-09
health24
Youth need help
2011-09-08
Sowetan
Varsity in HIV research
2011-09-08
The New Age
3 provinces sit on vast Health funds
2011-09-07
Sowetan
More are being cured of TB in Gauteng
2011-09-07
Sowetan
Tobacco kills 6m yearly
2011-09-07
Sowetan
S Africans called on to fight lifestyle diseases
2011-09-07
BuaNews
Step up and stamp out heart disease
2011-09-07
health24
Eastern Cape graft exposed
2011-09-07
Business Day
Health Spending Shambles
2011-09-07
Times Live
Global Campaign for Violence Prevention Unveiled
2011-09-07
Cape Gateway
Young Americans have more risky sex than South Africans
2011-09-06
Health-e
Tokollo District Hospital scores COHSASA accreditation
2011-09-06
Health-e
Pregnancy-linked strokes increasing
2011-09-06
health24
Service Delivery: Bridging the medical skills gap
2011-09-06
The New Age
Lifestyle linked to diabetes
2011-09-06
health24
Dire warning for NHI’s future
2011-09-06
IOL
HIV/Aids directory will help needy
2011-09-05
Daily News
Suicide in SA increasing
2011-09-05
health24
NHI must socially mobilise SA
2011-09-02
BuaNews
NHI 'no cure for sick public facilities'
2011-09-02
Mail & Guardian
TB cure rate on the rise in Gauteng
2011-09-02
BuaNews

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