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Health activist; co-author of 'Textbook of Global Health' (OUP, 2017)
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
Today, SA boasts the world’s largest HIV treatment programme, but 3.2-million people who need ARVs still aren’t on them. Here’s how to fix that.
Pregnancy in South Africa is getting safer, but still not safe enough. Here’s what the health department says they’re doing about it.
In a historic first, the UN just held a high-level meeting on TB. There was one on lifestyle diseases too. But did these sittings achieve anything?
Draft guidelines will look to balance a doctor or nurse’s right recuse themselves from performing abortions with a person’s right to choose.
New national plan will have great impact, but implementation is key
Today, SA is seeing fewer new TB cases and deaths than ever before.
The global body heeds calls by SA health minister Aaron Motsoaledi for high-level meeting on age-old killer.
The country has made progress with its plans to prevent, treat and monitor HIV but still has a long way to go.
Initiatives in the past four years have greatly increased inmates’ access to healthcare.
Unless the state’s plan to curb maternal deaths is wholly implemented, it won’t make a dent.
It’s World Breastfeeding Week and government and Save the Children have joined forces to promote breastfeeding to save children’s lives.
A new look at family planning, especially among teens in South Africa, is on the cards.
