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Healthcare

Parliament's opening: GNU's NHI execution a key test for government cohesion

Katja Hamilton 3 days

Healthcare

In a surprise move, Ramaphosa to sign NHI Bill into law before 29 May elections

14 May 2024

Healthcare

Can the UN impose sanctions on SA? You bet it can… and One Health may be the tipping point

Katja Hamilton 15 Mar 2024

Healthcare

Cape Verde is the third African country to eliminate malaria: here’s how

Tiaan de Jager and Taneshka Kruger 5 Feb 2024

Healthcare

NCOP's NHI approval: No surprise here

Mike Settas 12 Dec 2023

Healthcare

"Business must stop grovelling and realise its power to oppose NHI"

David Ansara 22 Nov 2023

Source: Supplied. Tom Kariuki, SFA Foundation executive director at the Deltas Africa ll launch event in Nairobi, Kenya.

Healthcare

Science for Africa Foundation launches $70m research programme

11 May 2023

Healthcare

The progress towards achieving universal health coverage needs to remain on track

Ahmed Banderker 20 Mar 2023

Bonitas offers Panda app for mental health

Healthcare

Bonitas offers Panda app for mental health

Issued by Bonitas 9 Jan 2023

Healthcare

NHI: Implementation headaches loom for health dept

Ndivhuwo Mukwevho 4 Jan 2023

Healthcare

'Tobacco industry exaggerations of illicit trade should not deter tobacco tax increases'

27 Sep 2022

Healthcare

A call to plug SA's e-cigarette regulation gap

30 May 2022

New IMF chief economist weighs in on world economic outlook

Finance

New IMF chief economist weighs in on world economic outlook

20 Apr 2022

Healthcare

Panda app: first of its kind in addressing mental-health needs this festive season

23 Dec 2021

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Finance

Earned wage access to assist in mental wellness

14 Oct 2021

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Healthcare

Compulsory Covid-19 vaccines?

28 Sep 2021

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Healthcare

Quality of care poor in Africa

2 Sep 2021

UN warns excluding women from top jobs threatens Covid-19 recovery

ESG & Sustainability

UN warns excluding women from top jobs threatens Covid-19 recovery

Sharon Kimathi 8 Jul 2021

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Healthcare

Health professionals work in teams: their training should prepare them

Gérard Charl Filies & Josè Frantz 6 Jul 2021

Healthcare

Africa has few vaccines: Here's what can still be done to minimise the impact of Covid-19

Deoraj Caussy 30 Jun 2021

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Healthcare

There are alternate solutions to SA's ill-fated NHI

31 May 2021

Call for more midwives as millions die in childbirth

Healthcare

Call for more midwives as millions die in childbirth

Sonia Elks 6 May 2021

Healthcare

Zambia must find a way to balance the economy and public health in tax policy

Mulenga Mary Mukanu 23 Apr 2021

UCT doctoral candidates win L'Oréal-Unesco award

Education

UCT doctoral candidates win L'Oréal-Unesco award

11 Dec 2020

A Covid-19 test in Utah. The country’s pandemic response has been politicised, making comprehensive changes to public health more difficult.
AP Photo/Rick Bowmer

Healthcare

Poor US pandemic response will reverberate in healthcare politics for years, health scholars warn

Simon F Haeder & Sarah E Gollust 4 Nov 2020

During the Covid-19 pandemic, WHO is supporting the Ghana Health Service in their efforts to continue providing essential medical services to the population at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Ghana. Photo: WHO / Blink Media - Nana Kofi Acquah

Healthcare

5 quick wins to re-invent Africa's health systems

Rachel Ndirangu & Rosemarie Muganda-Onyando 23 Oct 2020

Covid-19: Examining theories for Africa's low death rates

Healthcare

Covid-19: Examining theories for Africa's low death rates

Kevin Mars & Moses Alobo 8 Oct 2020

Healthcare

Locals must lead the way to African scientific capacity and solutions

Victoria Kasprowicz & Denis Chopera 16 Sep 2020

13,135 nurses employed since Covid-19 outbreak

Healthcare

13,135 nurses employed since Covid-19 outbreak

14 Sep 2020

Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi can make a simple policy change that can allow South Africa to implement a health programme that will be a model for the world. Photo: Tariro Washinyira

Healthcare

Here's a quick health win for government

GroundUp editors 25 Aug 2020

How South African food companies go about shaping public health policy in their favour

Retail

How South African food companies go about shaping public health policy in their favour

Gary Sacks, Eric Crosbie and Melissa Mialon 30 Jul 2020

Exposure to sunshine for a few minutes is enough to provide sufficient vitamin D. GettyImages

Healthcare

Think vitamin D deficiency is not common in Africa? Think again

Reagan Mogire 29 Jun 2020

Mining industry plans to increase Covid-19 testing capacity

Energy & Mining

Mining industry plans to increase Covid-19 testing capacity

26 Jun 2020

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Healthcare

The new architectural frontier: buildings and their microbiomes

Jako Nice 15 Jun 2020

Self-diagnostic app helps pinpoint virus hotspots

Healthcare

Self-diagnostic app helps pinpoint virus hotspots

22 May 2020

A member of the Nigerian Health Task Force fumigates a building in Abuja, Nigeria, as the city struggles to curb the spread of coronavirus. COVID-19 Photo by Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images

Finance

Steps to inoculate African economies against the impact of coronavirus

Chuku Chuku 15 May 2020

Digital transformation vital to improve service delivery

ICT

Digital transformation vital to improve service delivery

Andy Dikobo 7 May 2020

Minerals Council outlines industry readiness

Energy & Mining

Minerals Council outlines industry readiness

28 Apr 2020

Healthcare

#OnTheFrontLine with Dr Kerrin Begg

Nicci Botha 24 Apr 2020

South African Law Enforcement officers check movement papers during the country’s 21-day national total lockdown. Nic Bothma/EPA

Legal

Covid-19: How personal versus public freedoms are playing out in South Africa

Harriet Etheredge 3 Apr 2020

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Marketing & Media

Why Africa's journalists aren't doing a good job on Covid-19

George Ogola 26 Mar 2020

Why a one-size-fits-all approach to Covid-19 could have lethal consequences

ESG & Sustainability

Why a one-size-fits-all approach to Covid-19 could have lethal consequences

Alex Broadbent and Benjamin T H Smart 23 Mar 2020

Child healthcare remains uneven in South Africa and varies between provinces and districts. Shutterstock

Healthcare

How South Africa can build a child-centred healthcare system

Maylene Shung-King 12 Dec 2019

Corporations misused evidence to manipulate health policy. Shutterstock

Healthcare

How business misrepresented evidence: the South African sugar tax story

Gary Fooks, Gary Sacks, Graham Box & Simon Williams 1 Nov 2019

Foremost health quality and safety conference for Cape Town

Healthcare

Foremost health quality and safety conference for Cape Town

Issued by COHSASA 17 Oct 2019

Primedia Outdoor joins voices around the world to call on more people to demand that 'Malaria Must Die'

Marketing & Media

Primedia Outdoor joins voices around the world to call on more people to demand that 'Malaria Must Die'

Issued by Primedia Outdoor 15 Oct 2019

Healthcare

We did the sums on South Africa's mental health spend. They're not pretty

Sumaiyah Docrat & Crick Lund 9 Oct 2019

High-income country trainees and experts must learn to listen and be humble. Shutterstock

Healthcare

Global health still mimics colonial ways: here's how to break the pattern

Madhukar Pai 19 Aug 2019

Women and girls on the move are often framed as victims. Shutterstock

Healthcare

#WomensMonth: Southern Africa needs better healthcare for women and girls on the move

Rebecca Walker and Jo Vearey 5 Aug 2019