Business Unity SA (Busa), which represents private companies and professional bodies, has had a “cordial and constructive” first meeting with the health department...
October 16th, 2019
Fewer than 1 in 10 people living with a mental health condition in South Africa receive the care they need and there are huge disparities between provinces in the...
Following the success of the inaugural South African Health Excellence Awards in 2018, Clinix Health Group in partnership with the South African Clinician Scientists’...Addiction News
The war on drugs has done more harm than good and must be replaced by legal regulation, say eminent doctors at the helm of a new think-tank. University of Cape...
October 9th, 2019
Eight innovators from seven African countries have been announced as the inaugural awardees of the Grand Challenges (GC) Africa drug discovery scheme, each receiving up...
Western Cape Health has appealed to the Constitutional Court to overturn a Labour Court victory of 50 doctors that forced the department to pay them R28m in backdated...
September 4th, 2019
The sudden and unexpected death of public health activist and teacher Professor David Sanders has left the health community in South Africa and beyond saddened, but...
September 4th, 2019
There is a lot of criticism of the NHI Bill, but little of it is constructive, writes Professor Shabir Moosa, a family physician and professor at the department of...
African experts and activists have been left disappointed by the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) updated contraceptive recommendations and have labelled them rushed...
August 28th, 2019Louis Reynolds, associate professor affiliated to the paediatric department at the University of Cape Town and David Saunders, emeritus professor at the School of Public...
