Mashatile was delivering a keynote address at a celebration in Limpopo
The Bill says the same rules should apply to vaping and traditional cigarettes and that both should be sold in plain packaging and banned in all public spaces
Health authorities say vaccines will mostly be donated, or, when available, be bought via negotiated deals with drugmakers, but with different budgets
The health department says the country has a limited number of treatments based on the number of active cases
The children are being treated as part of ’MealSA’s ‘Gift of Mobility’ programme, Raslouw Private Hospital in Pretoria and the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund
South Africa spends too much money on medical malpractice lawsuits and wants to pursue new ways to settle cases out of court
Failures in infrastructure, maintenance and governance are contributing to maternal and neonatal deaths in the province
A programme meant to allow pharmacists and nurses working at private pharmacies to prescribe HIV treatment or anti-HIV pills and jabs is on hold because of a drawn-out court case
The pens are running out in public hospitals because of Novo Nordisk’s decision to stop supplying it to the health department
President Cyril Ramaphosa said it was about the rapid spread of the disease across the continent, which reflected a ‘concerning shift in the epidemiological pattern’
The African Centres for Disease Control said so far in 2024, 13 countries had confirmed 2 863 cases and 517 deaths from the viral disease
Twenty-eight years after the first South African students left for Cuba to study medicine, an increasing number are in senior leadership positions in healthcare
Having diabetes is bad enough but heat waves, floods, air pollution and infectious illnesses make dealing with it harder and increase rates
The Clade Ib strain has already jumped borders, with cases being reported in Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda and Kenya in the last two weeks
But regardless of whether it is sniffed, sucked or chewed, the plant is still bad for people’s health
The international community can support the continent through, for example, the transfer of technology to enable drugs and vaccines to be produced on African soil
Lenacapavir drug can be made for as little as R740 per year for each patient
CAB-LA virtually eliminates someone’s chances of contracting HIV, but costs about four times more than the government can afford to pay
Tilana Alida Louw said Dr Stephen Paul Grobler had verbally abused her, hurled profanities, insults, and used blasphemy, in front of other staff and patients
Section27, representing 44 of the bereaved families, has called for those responsible to be charged with culpable homicide
After 2022, the Ngcobo Community Health Centre in the rural Eastern Cape ceased operating 24 hours every day because spiralling crime and dry taps made it impossible for workers to operate at night
The health department said it is investigating the local transmission of the disease after the infected patients were found to have no travel history
After eight years at the helm of the University of Cape Town’s department of medicine, Ntusi says it is ‘time for somebody else to come and lead’
The digital solution was designed to inform patients, improve healthcare outcomes and protect doctors
If the circumstances in which a health system has to work aren’t fixed, simply passing a law to give everyone access to healthcare won’t change things for the better
Limpopo consistently ranks as one of the provinces with the lowest reading outcomes in Sepedi
Deputy Minister Parks Tau reiterated the government’s stance that medical aid tax breaks will be forfeited to fund the proposed universal health care plan
Despite being a preventable and curable disease, about 150 people died from TB every day in South Africa in 2022
About 83 out of every 100 people in our country depend on the public sector for their health care
People often rely on antidepressant medicine alone, when the power of collective song and dance is a neglected channel for increased endorphins, dopamine and lowered cortisol
A proposed treaty and law changes would compromise national and health sovereignty
We can tackle inequality in access to medicines by reshaping the systems, policies and practices under which life-saving medicines are produced, priced and distributed