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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...
Board of Healthcare Funders welcomes lift to the HPCSA ban on telemedicine
The Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) has welcomed the lifting of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) telemedicine ban to broadly permit...
DA's 'Blue Book' of proposed measures to cope with COVID-19 challenges
In a national emergency like this it is encouraging to see South Africans all putting their heads together, regardless of politics, to do whatever...
CoronaFighter WebApp brings SA immediate aid
During this uncertain time, it is all too easy to feel powerless in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Now more than ever, many...
SA Drug Policy Initiative calls for repeal of ban on the sale of alcohol and tobacco
The basic principles underlying the South African government’s implementation of a compulsory lockdown during the fight against the COVID-19 viral pandemic are fundamentally sound...
Council for Medical Schemes: COVID-19 lockdown measures
The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) have issued an important COVID-19 Circular addressing important matters such as Prescribed Minimum Benefits, telemedicine, termination of membership,...
Netcare suspends visiting hours, except in specific special circumstances
Visiting hours at Netcare hospitals have been suspended, except in specific special circumstances, as a further precaution against the spread of COVID-19, Netcare announced....
Call for businesses urgently to divert PPE inventories to national healthcare sector
Business for South Africa’s Public Health Workgroup is calling on all companies, especially those in lockdown, to urgently divert their stocks of personal...
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine offers free 3-week online course on COVID-19
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is offering a free 3-week online course on COVID-19 and its implications.
It has no...
UWC and NGOs' pamphlet on informal settlements and COVID-19
The Dullah Omar Institute at the University of the Western Cape, with the IBP, SASDI, Planact, Afesis-corplan and the SJC, is asking partners to...
Guidelines for COVID-19 in Africa — World Economic Forum
The Africa Centre for Disease Control (CDC), Resolve to Save Lives and opinion and research company Ipsos have teamed up to support governments to...
Commonwealth develops tracker to help member countries monitor COVID-19
The Commonwealth has developed a coronavirus tracker that shows daily cases in member countries. The tracker collects data from the World Health Organisation (WHO)...
MAFLD: A new name and definition bringing hope for patients with fatty liver disease
An international consensus panel led by researchers from The Westmead Institute for Medical Research (WIMR) has highlighted the need to redefine Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver...
Right to Care: HIV-positive people not on treatment and those with TB at high risk of coronavirus
HIV-positive people and those with tuberculosis who are not on treatment will be at higher risk of worse outcomes if they contract the coronavirus,...
SASOG condemns the violent attack on a Durban gynaecologist
The South African Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (SASOG) condemns the recent brutal attack on one of its members, a Durban gynaecologist, in the...
Latest accreditations awarded to healthcare facilities by The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (COHSASA)
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)...
Top Pretoria lawyer to lead expansion of Medical Protection Society in South Africa
Medical Protection Society (MPS) has announced that its members in South Africa will soon benefit from a more local service, with cases and clinical...
Signapps delivers free-to-use care co-ordination platform to SA's public health sector
Patient care within the public healthcare sector received a boost this week with the announcement that local health tech company Healthcent will be offering...
Constantia Insurance Group appoints a new CEO
Constantia Insurance Group (Constantia) is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Todd as CEO. Todd takes over from Volker von Widdern, who has...
Icon Oncology appoints Anthony Pedersen as new head
Anthony Pedersen has been appointed as new CEO to value-based-healthcare company Icon Oncology Holdings. Anthony assumed his role on 1 January 2020 at the...
All about the coronavirus — Norton Rose Fulbright's Healthcare Practice
Norton Rose Fulbright's Healthcare Practice invites you to find out more about the coronavirus, what it is, where it comes from, how do we contain it...
2024 International Obstetrics and Gynaecology Congress to be held in Cape Town
Cape Town has been chosen to host thousands of women’s health professionals from throughout the world for the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics...
Fintech helps control medical costs with a medical savings card
Between 70 - 80% of employed South Africans cannot afford medical aid and do not always have cash readily available to pay for unexpected...
Cataract surgery under pressure — SA Ophthalmological Society
An estimated 290,000 South Africans could become blind as a result of untreated cataracts, with government facilities in most provinces unable to meet the...
Moms' maternal health is important for children too
As many as one in five new mothers will experience depression just before or after giving birth, at risk to their own health and...
Know your medical benefits, avoid costly co-payments — Ophthalmological Society of SA
Medical Scheme premiums are about to increase by CPI + 5% in January for most medical schemes. These increases are a result of an...
Positive results in Phase 3 study for Allegra/Telfast in patients with allergic rhinitis
The results of the Phase III, single centre, sequential and parallel-group, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled FEXPOLSAR study evaluating the efficacy and safety of Allegra®/Telfast® (fexofenadine...
16 Days of Activism: SASOG calls health care professionals to action
In South Africa, a woman is killed every three hours and according to the World Health Organisation, is five times more likely to be...
Crowdfunding supports medical students amid a nationwide doctor shortage
South Africa’s current shortage of doctors and nurses is not a recent phenomenon. The problem of unfilled vacancies in the public sector has plagued...
The Marmite NHI
John Bercow, the speaker of the UK parliament, was recently referred to by a reporter as “the Marmite speaker”, writes Donald Dinnie, consultant...