May 27th, 2020
“Immunity passports” – certificates issued to people who have had COVID-19 and are presumed immune to the disease – would cause more problems than they solve,...
The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) has announced that Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi will head an investigation into alleged discrimination against black and Indian...Medico-Legal
A global review has found that HIV-related arrests, investigations, prosecutions and convictions have ever occurred in at least 72 countries, with recent cases occurring...South Africa
The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS), along with various doctor associations and the Board of Healthcare Funders, has instituted an inquiry into allegations of...
March 13th, 2019Claims by a group of Kenyan doctors against ‘apartheid-style’discrimination by the Kenya Medical Research Institute have been rejected by the country’s Court of...
October 17th, 2018A Council for Medical Schemes appeal accusing Spectramed of discrimination has spotlighted the 50% surcharge that that surgeons and anaesthetists can levy when operating...
Discrimination against vulnerable and marginalised communities is seriously hampering the global effort to tackle the HIV epidemic according to a report by the Global...SA Provincial Health
HIV and tuberculosis patients in Limpopo have taken Health MEC Phophi Ramathuba to the Equality Court for discrimination, hate speech and incitement after she insinuated...Weekly Roundup
A report has been released as part of a series titled Discrimination in America that is based on a survey conducted for National Public Radio, the Robert Wood Johnson...
November 1st, 2017Most doctors have absorbed racist, sexist, and other bigoted verbal remarks from patients under their care, according to a US national survey. And, reports STAT News, in...
