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Board of Healthcare Funders: Medical scheme patients urged to defer elective surgery

The Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) and its members in the healthcare funding space have requested members of medical schemes to proceed with caution...

DA: Alleged child rape at hospital highlights failures in responding to GBV

I am horrified at the alleged rape of a two-year-old girl while in isolation for COVID-19 at the Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital in...

International interest in SA team led by UFS professor who isolated COVID-19 in sewage

Since a South African team associated with the University of the Free State (UFS) became the first to isolate the SARS-CoV-2 virus from wastewater...

Institute of Race Relations: Ramaphosa deceives SA in claiming NHI will cure healthcare crisis

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s appeal to the country in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis to support the government’s National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme for...

Netcare: Demand for treatment of COVID-19 patients is increasing

Public urged to protect themselves, and others, from the virus. “We can understand that the public is concerned about hospital capacity, given the recent surge...

Academy of Sciences: Costs of COVID-19 to SA's quadruple disease burden

As of early July 2020, the full force of COVID-19 has yet to strike in South Africa, though it has already impacted the economy...

International AIDS Society’s virtual COVID-19 Conference on 10-11 July 2020

The International AIDS Society (IAS) will host a virtual COVID-19 Conference on breaking COVID-19 research, policy analysis and frontline experience on the final day...

Messe Muenchen SA: Drones show promise for better pan-African healthcare

Drones are being successfully deployed to support medical and humanitarian projects across Africa, but for greater, more sustainable impact, they will need to be...

TAC releases 2020 Pipeline Report

The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has announced that it has released the 2020 Pipeline Report. The TAC says: “Our annual review provides an overview...

Repurposing of testing facilities vital in the response to COVID 19 outbreak

The improvement in the provision of health services has changed over the years, from the introduction of mobile health facilities to digital and internet...

Access to Medicine Foundation: COVID-19 disruption threatens progress on malaria, HIV and TB in SA

The Access to Medicine Foundation has published a series of articles to address growing gaps in the treatment of malaria, HIV and TB across...

Gauteng may be short of 7,000 critical care beds at peak COVID-19 period

Jack Bloom, DA Gauteng shadow health MEC says in a statement on the Politicsweb site: Gauteng is potentially facing a shortage of 6,878 critical care...

Uber launches initiative with Mastercard to provide free trips to frontline workers in MEA, including South Africa

As cases of COVID-19 continue to escalate, those assisting communities continue to forge ahead. As they work tirelessly to continue to support, feed and...

Solidarity reacts to Netcare's retrenchment announcement

Solidarity has reacted with shock and concern to the sudden announcement it received from the Netcare private hospital group. Solidarity says in a statement...

African Academy of Sciences: Strengthening Africa’s clinical trial capacity through an online platform

Without a cure or vaccine for COVID-19, it is likely the virus will continue to cause more deaths across the world. As of June...

Fasken: Changes to the scheduling of cannabis, THC and CBD explained

Martha Burnett, partner Fasken, and Roxanne Gilbert, candidate attorney Fasken write: The Schedules to the Medicines and Related Substances Act, 1965 (Medicines Act), relating specifically...

Thuma Mina moment as professionals step forward to address the COVID-19 crisis

Eighty professionals have stepped forward as volunteers to bring one of South Africa’s most ambitious COVID-19 critical care projects to fruition. The team comprising actuaries,...

Erik Roos appointed chair of generics and biosimilar medicines body

The Generic and Biosimilar Medicines body of Southern Africa (GBMSA) has appointed industry veteran, Erik Roos, CEO of Pharma Dynamics as its chair, as...

SASOG supports freedom of academic expression

The South African Society of Obstreticians and Gynaecologists (SASOG) executive committee and council noted with disappointment the recent engagement between the Medical Research Council...

Global CROWN study to test chloroquine to protect health workers from COVID-19

COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator to fund international trial of chloroquine An international group of physicians and scientists, including from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and...

SA Drug Policy Initiative: Cannabis legalisation lockdown lessons

On the 31st of March, a few days after the start of the COVID-19 related lockdown, the South African Drug Policy Initiative (SADPI) sent...

Netcare reports its 6-monthly results

Leading healthcare provider, Netcare, has continued to deliver a resilient operational performance in a rapidly changing market and economic environment. Trading during the first...

Newly available tests for rapid TB diagnosis: what you need to know

Three products have recently been made available to support TB programmes’ efforts to reach UN targets to detect and treat 40 million people with...

AfriForum: Call for Mkhize to disclose more COVID-19 information

The civil rights organisation AfriForum has written a letter to Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize, calling for the disclosure of COVID-19 information, including the...

Med schemes warn of 'rebound' as members avoid treatment for non-COVID-19 illnesses

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues to impact all sectors and medical aid schemes have not been spared. Several solutions are being put forward to...

Marijuana and how it impacts schizophrenia

As marijuana users worldwide take advantage of their self-proclaimed month, here’s a new toke for you. Marijuana can negatively impact mental disorders such as...

Mapping technology to help stop COVID-19 in its tracks in SA, one hotspot at a time

Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping technology has been key to limiting the spread of COVID-19 in South Africa by providing access to real time...

HPCSA guidelines on performance of duties during COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to new and increased demands for the treatment and care of South Africans infected and affected by the...

Global Drug Survey: Invitation to participate in a look at changes in use of alcohol and drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 has changed our lives: from travel bans, social and physical isolation and empty cities to workers laid off and governments scrambling to muster...

COVID-19: Dental Protection announces two months’ free membership

A package of support – the equivalent of the next two months of membership for free - has been set out by Dental Protection...

Nehawu concerned about healthcare workers' infection risk

The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) has said in a statement that its officials in the Western Cape are deeply concerned...

Netcare Ceres Hospital to re-open after Covid-19 staff infections

Netcare Ceres Hospital confirms that the facility will re-open tomorrow, Friday, 24 April, for admitting patients after being temporarily closed as from 17 April....

Wits University: Tested positive for coronavirus or been close to someone who has? You are urgently needed for SA's rapid test study

South Africans who have tested positive for coronavirus (SARS-COV2 or COVID-19) or those who have been in close contact with someone who has tested...

Right to Care: Coronavirus in SA: HIV-positives are skipping treatment and drastic drop in testing

A high percentage of South Africans that are HIV-positive are missing their clinic appointments to collect their medication and there has also been a...

COVID-19 pandemic should not divert attention from the needs of children and adolescents in TB-endemic African countries

If resources are diverted away from child and adolescent tuberculosis (TB) programmes in order to fight COVID-19, the consequences for the estimated 400,000 children...

Call for all South Africans to wear masks when leaving home

Health NGO Right to Care, which is supporting the Health Department with its coronavirus response, is calling on all South Africans to wear masks...

Educational Psychology Association of SA: The issue of medical scheme funding

The outbreak of COVID-19 is likely to cause serious challenges for mental health services. In any epidemic it is common for individuals to feel...

DA: Concerns over accuracy of Eastern Cape COVID-19 data

There are serious concerns relating to the accuracy of data being provided with regards to provincial COVID-19 statistics in the Eastern Cape, as well...

NGO calls for improved healthcare services for street-based people

The extension of the lockdown period to “flatten the curve” of the spread of the coronavirus, COVID-19, epidemic in South Africa, makes it more...

Valenture Institute launches 1-year scholarship programme for children of SA's healthcare providers

The global online high school, with a curriculum influenced by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, launches national scholarship program for the children of...