NHI Bill must prioritise people, not private interest
At the centre of providing universal health care are people and ensuring equitable services, but can the health minister prevent the private sector from hijacking the National Health Insurance?
Sibongile Nkosi
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AIDS-free baby girls face infection in their teens
The odds are stacked against young women, making them continually at risk of HIV as long as society is dominated by men and relationships between young girls and older men are the norm.
HIV testing Campaigns are still missing the men
If we don’t get more heterosexual men to test for HIV, the world is going to miss the UNAIDS target of 90 percent of HIV positive people knowing their status by 2020, according to experts.
Prince Harry calls for global action against HIV
Prince Harry has told global leaders that HIV remains among the most pressing and urgent challenges facing the world.
HIV won’t stop without gay community – Elton John
Sir Elton John believes that the spread of HIV will not be curbed unless everyone is drawn into the battle – gay and lesbian groups included.
Study offers new protection to teenagers.
South Africa has the highest HIV infections rate among adolescent new adolescent girls and a new study by the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre is currently testing antiretrovirals to a group of adolescents in a bid to keep them HIV free
Marching for increased AIDS funding
Civil society groups took to the streets of Durban today , a few hours before the opening of 21st International AIDS Conference, pleading for governments to increase funding for HIV.
Health-e News intern wins a study tour to US
Health-e News intern Thabo Molelekwa has been selected, along with three other journalists, to be part of a study tour to the United States later this year.
Pooling of resources for NHI could lower cost of universal access.
On Tuesday, Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi addressed the media along with members of the Board of As the debate on National Health Insurance (NHI) funding continues, the minister of health has come out in response to the criticism over the high cost associated with rolling out universal health care in South Africa.
Free maternal healthcare saving lives in Lesotho
Free maternal healthcare service in Lesotho introduced by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is drastically curbing deaths during labour and delivery.
Medical staff caught changing medicine expiry dates
The Office of Health Standards Compliance (OHSC) allegedly discovered Charlotte Maxeke Hospital staff changing medicine expiration dates to conceal expired drugs, but staff at the Johannesburg hospital may not be the only ones, warns the OHSC following recent inspections.
Johannesburg to launch citywide diabetes campaign
In search of jobs and a better life, droves of South Africans are flocking to the country's cities but a switch to city living could come at a deadly price.