SA’s bold move on salt gets off to a shaky start
South Africans consume between 7.8 and 9.5g of salt per day, exceeding the World Health Organisation’s one teaspoon recommendation per day.
Motsoaledi refutes claims SA faces drug shortages
The health minister says the media portrays the department as failing to provide drugs for patients, but supply is also subject to business decisions.
Comment: Mother and child health must improve
Increasing access to health services will prevent many mothers and newborn babies from dying.
‘I gave my children booze – and now I fear for their future’
In a binge-drinking community parents often give their children alcohol, or they get it in the womb.
Genderqueer: Existing outside the binary
When Demelza Bush was a little girl, she knew she wasn’t. And they weren’t a boy either.
Comment: Do we take state help for granted?
SA’s disability allowance eases the financial and emotional burden of people with tuberculosis.
Kampala is seizing TB by the horns
A private-public partnership is gaining ground in the fight against the disease in the city’s slums.
System is in good health, insists MEC Malakoane
Free State Health MEC Benny Malakoane has accused the M&G of sensationalist reporting, but warned that his department will run out of money this year.
Office space – the primary health frontier of any enterprise
Without good lighting, plants and privacy, the open-plan office can become a threat to the wellbeing of the people working there.
Basson launches bid to force committee recusal
Citing a conflict of interests and an inability to be impartial, "Dr Death" wants the committee conducting the inquiry into his conduct to step down.