A report by workers at the Tygerberg Hospital communication centre described the working environment as “toxic”. According to a Cape Argus report, the report, dated...SA Provincial Health
A doctor fired by the Western Cape Health for sexually assaulting a nurse after giving her a date-rape drug was back at work this week. The Times reports that Dr...South Africa
South Africa's national Health Department has withdrawn its instruction to provinces to charge foreign patients the maximum rate, saying the directive should never have...HIV/AIDS
Researchers have presented results from the HPTN 071 (PopART) study at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle. The study...Weekly Roundup
The Western Cape Health Department is vaccinating 9-year-old girls in public schools against the human papilloma-virus which has been linked to cervical cancer....Reproductive Medicine
South Africa, where cultural beliefs can be an obstacle for men seeking health care and for the physicians who provide it, has one of the highest male infertility rates...Weekly Roundup
A four-year-old girl who was born with only one fingerless hand has had a toe transformed into a finger in the first operation of its kind in South Africa, reports The...
July 25th, 2018Draft legislation for a "pay as you go" system to compensate victims of state medical negligence are badly framed and will force patients back to the very facilities...
Khayelitsha District Hospital is in the midst of a crisis‚ say picketing Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) members. Western Cape chair Vuyani Macotha is quoted in a...South Africa
According to a Weekend Argus report, local health authorities are predicting that South Africa is not likely to have the virulent H3N3 flu virus that has hit the...
