December 9th, 2020South Africa’s strict lockdown over five weeks had devastating societal consequences but did not achieve its COVID-19 objectives, writes Seán Mfundza Muller of the...
October 28th, 2020The easing of South Africa's lockdown has triggered fears of a new wave of COVID-19 infections. Two separate surveys show growing pandemic fatigue, complacency and...
Minister of co-operative governance Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma has extended the state of disaster to 15 November. It gives the government unchecked power to make arbitrary...News Release
On Women's Day, we salute South Africa’s extraordinary occupational health experts who are leading the country on national COVID-19 guidelines and procedures, online...Harm Reduction
Researchers say happiness levels in South Africa have improved since the beginning of the lockdown, writes Riaan Grobler for News24. But the 12 July ban on the sale of...HIV/AIDS
Thanks to antiretroviral therapy, children living with HIV are likely to live much longer than they would without treatment. They will go to school like other children...Weekly Roundup
A number of universities are rolling out critical antiretroviral therapy (ART) medication to their students living with HIV, according to a Mail & Guardian report....Weekly Roundup
A final report on the Competition Commission’s private healthcare market inquiry will have been released "by 30 November", according to a notice in the Government...
August 1st, 2018Criticisms that the Health Market Inquiry is an assault on the free market ignores the reality that there is no market in health care in South Africa, at least not one...
June 6th, 2018The Durban University of Technology, the Chiropractic Association of SA, and Professor Tim Noakes respond to Dr Alastair McAlpine's recent 'unsubstantiated, provocative...