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US National Academy of Sciences: A new open-access, rapid-publication journal
In partnership with Oxford University Press, the US National Academy of Sciences is pleased to announce the launch of PNAS Nexus, a highly selective,...
COHSASA: Latest accreditations awarded to Southern African healthcare facilities
The healthcare facilities listed below have been awarded accreditation by The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (COHSASA), a not-for-profit company (NPC)...
Netcare: Interim results for the six months ended 31 March 2021
Netcare delivers strong interim profit growth when compared to second six months of the previous financial year
SALIENT FEATURES
Strong revenue and earnings growth over...
Critical Care Society of SA: Prof Brenda Morrow to lead World Federation
The Critical Care Society of Southern Africa (CCSSA) is pleased to announce that executive council member, Professor Brenda Morrow, has been elected to lead...
AfriForum: Authorities must release Ivermectin review documents
The civil rights organisation AfriForum and the I Can Make a Difference doctors group today requested the review documents of various health institutions relating...
EFF: Government has failed spectacularly with COVID-19 vaccine
The Economic Freedom Fighters note the announcement by the Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize on the 16th of May 2021 that claims that...
DA: Slow and shambolic start to vaccine rollout is reason to decentralise control
This week marks the start of South Africa’s official vaccine rollout. Although the ultimate aim is to reach herd immunity by vaccinating 40 million...
University of Free State: Fungal infections among COVID-19 patients in ICU
COVID-19 patients with severe symptoms who end up in hospital intensive care units are at risk of contracting an invasive fungal infection that might...
MSF in Burkina Faso: Providing healthcare in a region ravaged by violence
As of March 2021, and according to the Council for Emergency Relief and Rehabilitation (CONASUR), Burkina Faso’s North region counts 100,254 internally displaced people...
SANDF Military Command refuses to co-operate with Public Protector on Cuban Interferon
The DA can reveal that the Military Command Council (MCC) is refusing to cooperate with the office of the Public Protector of South Africa...
Netcare: Clarity required from Lesotho on termination of public private partnership
Netcare today said that the Government of Lesotho (GoL) has yet to provide clarity regarding the future of the public private partnership (PPP) operated...
$3m funding for UK-biotech to develop a rapid diagnostic for sepsis
CARB-X is awarding GenomeKey in Bristol, UK, up to $3m in non-dilutive funding to develop an innovative rapid diagnostic for sepsis. GenomeKey is eligible...
DA: Eastern Cape Health urgently needs assistance from other government departments
The stark reality of how exhausted our healthcare workers really are was brought home in an emotional oversight visit to Livingstone and the Port...
MSF: Fighting malaria in Burundi
Teams from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have carried out a number of large-scale malaria prevention campaigns in eastern Burundi in recent years, most recently...
DA: Dramatically reduced budget leaves Livingstone Hospital hamstrung
Dramatic cuts to the operational budget of the Livingstone Hospital have severely hamstrung its ability to provide even basic services, such as clean linen...
B4SA: Private sector resources ready to vaccinate 163,000 people a day
Business for SA (B4SA) has mobilised private sector resources to vaccinate about 163,000 South Africans a day. The organisation said that it welcomed the...
DA: Health Ombud must probe discharge of patient with live maggots in wound
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) has forwarded the case of a Durban woman, found to have live maggots infested in a leg...
MSF: Only half of those needing insulin have access to it 100 years after its discovery
This year marks 100 years since the discovery of insulin – the life-saving drug for people living with diabetes. However, only half of people...
Philips Foundation: Deployment of AI software to 11 South African hospitals
Philips Foundation has successfully implemented artificial intelligence (AI) software, developed by Delft Imaging, in 11 South African hospitals to help triage and monitor COVID-19...
MSF: Sexual violence, murder, looting and mass displacement in the DRC
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) alerts about a complex crisis where 2.8m people are facing multiple layers of...
UFS: Child malnutrition – human rights violation and slow violence against children
University of Free State release on child malnutrition analysis by Dr Chantell Witten, division of health professions education, University of the Free State:
A decade...
DOH asks parents of SA medical students in Cuba to send food and toiletries
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has written to the Minister of Health, Zweli Mkhize, to address the continued plights of South African medical students living...
CHRU: SA's dramatic strides in eradicating TB but challenges remain
In the lead up to World Tuberculosis (TB) Awareness Day on 24 March, researchers at the Clinical HIV Research Unit (CHRU), deputy director Dr...
PAIA application to obtain details of KZN Health's medical volunteer policy
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has submitted a Public Access to Information Act (PAIA) application to the KwaZulu-Natal Health Department (DoH) in a bid to...
DA: Steenhuisen says Ramaphosa must explain decision to sell COVID-19 vaccines
South Africa has only administered 182,983 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, meaning we are hopelessly missing even our unambitious target of vaccinating 1m healthcare workers...
Ipsos-Forum poll: SA confidence in COVID-19 vaccines continues to rise
With COVID-19 vaccination programmes now under way in many parts of the world, confidence about getting the shot continues to rise.
The latest vaccine survey...
IWAG alarmed by the sudden shut down of Compensation Fund’s systems
The Injured Workers’ Action Group (IWAG) is alarmed by a notification from the Compensation Fund informing stakeholders that its system will be shut down...
DA: Senior health posts for pals rob frontline workers of opportunity
The Eastern Cape Health Department cannot afford to employ doctors, nurses, health practitioners and community health workers, as they are too busy paying fat-cat...
SA Minister of Defence: Task team to investigate purchase of Interferon-B from Cuba
The Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, NN Mapisa-Nqakula, appointed an external task team to investigate the veracity of allegations which arose at the...
Colleges of Medicine of SA: Equitable access to vaccines for COVID-19
The Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA) is an institution of approximately 10,000 medical and dental specialists whose purpose is to promote the...
SANCO calls for urgent removal of section 43 from COID Amendment Bill
The South African National Civic Organisation (SANCO), representing over 1m members from poor and disadvantaged communities across South Africa, is calling for the urgent...
South Africans support innovative approaches to smoking harm reduction – Global survey
Four in five South African adults agree that governments should consider the role smoke-free products can play in tobacco harm reduction, according to an...
COHSASA elects new chairperson and vice-chairperson
The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (COHSASA) has elected a new chairperson and vice-chairperson to lead the organisation. The new chairperson...
SA Hospital Association: Private hospital vaccination sites for health workers
With the majority of the first consignment of Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccines now successfully injected into the arms of healthcare workers since the...
AfroCentric: Three key ways the latest Budget Speech impacts healthcare
Ahmed Banderker, CEO of AfroCentric Group, comments on the 2021 Budget Speech
With the funding and rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations acting as a centre-piece of...
Here's how SA will tackle the freezing and transit of COVID-19 vaccines
South Africa may be in a temporary lull between COVID-19 waves but there is little doubt we will experience another wave at the very...
Roll-out of the COVID-19 National Occupational Health Surveillance System
The National Department of Health and Department of Employment and Labour have directed the National Institute for Occupational Health (NIOH) to roll-out the COVID-19...
HEALA: Double SA sugary beverage levy to help fund fight against COVID-19
In 2018, South Africa introduced a health promotion levy of about 11% on sugary beverages to help curb the country’s sugar consumption, which is...
COID Amendment Bill bans the cession of medical invoices to third party administrators and financial institutions
On 16 February, Professor Alex van den Heever, Tim Hughes and Moira Wilson spoke on a webinar about the dire consequences the proposed amendments...
DA: Out-on-bail Eastern Cape Health MEC must step aside
As scandal upon scandal piles up against Eastern Cape Health MEC Sindiswa Gomba, the honourable thing for her to do would be to step...