But the Free Market Foundation maintains the plan will cost the state more than it raises in taxes.
Pressing financial challenges that have befuddled previous ministers include health insurance, free education and the nuclear deal with Russia.
The health minister has stressed the importance of improving tuberculosis treatment so as to help mitigate the drastic impact of TB-HIV co-infection.
December 1 is #WorldAisDay: HIV was discovered more than 30 years ago. Why do we still stigmatise HIV-infected people?
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/ 17 November 2015
A World Health Organisation survey has revealed that antibiotic resistance has become a global crisis.
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/ 10 November 2015
A commission of inquiry into the the Free State’s healthcare has found that the province’s lack of services endanger the lives of vulnerable people.
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/ 6 November 2015
A task team set up by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has found the HPCSA has failed to function effectively.
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/ 14 October 2015
There are almost two and a half times more overweight people than undernourished, with almost 30% of the global population weighing too much.
Diepsloot’s Green Door, a help service for victims of sexual violence, gets a boost, writes Mia Malan.
A rape survivor receives no help from local police and lives in fear in her Diepsloot home.