The first four Ncelisa human milk banks located at Netcare maternity units are now fully operational.
It follows an 18-month collaborative project by a group of...HIV/AIDS
Urgent action is needed to improve access to the antifungal drug flucytosine, say investigators, following the presentation of the results of a trial showing that...HIV/AIDS
A year ago there was virtually no evidence on the acceptability and feasibility of HIV self-testing in female sex workers, but a series of presentations from Zimbabwe,...SA Provincial Health
The locking up of a teenage psychiatric patient at St Albans Prison in Port Elizabeth instead of at Grahamstown’s Fort England Psychiatric Hospital has blown the lid...South Africa
Apartheid built healthcare inequalities. It is up to the National Health Insurance (NHI) to dismantle them, writes South Africa’s Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi...Weekly Roundup
A century-long rise in life expectancy in the UK has stalled since 2010 when austerity brought about deep cuts in National Health Service (NHS) and social care spending,...Infectious Diseases
A randomised trial of clinical outcomes for patients with drug-resistant tuberculous meningitis (TBM) underscores that new diagnostic tools and treatments for the...HIV/AIDS
The proportion of infants with HIV who had drug resistance at the time of HIV diagnosis almost doubled in Zambia between 2009 and 2014 despite the introduction of...
July 5th, 2017The SA National Health Insurance White Paper is a 'wan fantasy' that ignores SA's ailing economy poor regulatory mechanisms and the role of private schemes, writes Tamar...
SMS advice‚ a checklist and a simple home urine test are all most women need after a medical abortion, found a University of Cape Town study.
The Times reports a...
