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/ 6 February 2014
Minister, please sit down with the private health sector before the NHI has us paying more but getting less, writes Dr Chris Archer.
An association of large drug companies said they had rejected an American plan to manipulate South Africa because it had been clearly inappropriate.
Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi is livid about a pharmaceutical company campaign he says will restrict access to crucial drugs.
While 20-million people have been tested for HIV in South Africa, there are still shortages of medicines and mismanagement in the health sector.
The Eastern Cape health department claims hospital staff misled a government inspection team to create a bad impression.
Speaking after the launch of the HIV, counselling and testing campaign, Aaron Motsoaledi has urged MPs to lead by example and get circumcised.
Tobacco retailers have expressed worry over the effects of stricter tobacco display regulations, proposed by the health minister.
It took the state’s forensics services on average 26 weeks last year to supply the result of an alcohol blood level test, says the health minister.
Hospitals and clinics are to be demolished and rebuilt to reboot the Eastern Cape’s "broken" health system.
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/ 13 September 2013
If the community stays vigilant, lives will be improved for many years.
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/ 12 September 2013
The growing health crisis in the E Cape has forced Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi to intervene by commissioning a task team to investigate.
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/ 9 September 2013
Health editor Mia Malan talks about Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi’s decision to use public hospitals and the NHI.
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/ 6 September 2013
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has promised to get state facilities running to the highest standards.
The Economic Freedom Fighters and Democratic Alliance have lauded the health minister for using the Steve Biko Academic Hospital for surgery.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says a recent survey is proof that SA should be concerned with the prevalence of chronic conditions in the country.
Following 30 initiates’ deaths and the hospitalisation of almost 300 boys in Eastern Cape, the health minister has lashed out at circumcision schools.
Denial should not stand in the way of the provision of sexual health services at schools, says Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has highlighted the coverage of the M&G’s new health journalism centre, Bhekisisa, in his budget vote speech.
Mia Malan reports on the challenges of involving medical schemes in the administration of the National Health Insurance scheme.
In the first of a two-part series about the NHI, Mia Malan reports on state plans to change the rigid reimbursement formula for private doctors.
Southern African health officials and international agencies will sign an agreement in Swaziland to reduce TB and HIV in the region’s mining sector.
An industry-wide probe into private healthcare seems likely, but stakeholders fear a witch hunt.
A shock report reveals 28% of school girls are HIV positive in SA, the world gets a new pope and an eight-year-old marries a 61-year-old woman.
Health professionals are finding the state’s planned guidelines for fees a bitter pill to swallow.
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/ 14 February 2013
Mia Malan speaks to the health minister and others in the healthcare sector about the guideline tariffs.
The <em>Mail & Guardian</em> asked readers what they think of doctors’ tariffs in a survey on M&G Online.
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/ 14 February 2013
Mia Malan speaks to the health minister and others in the healthcare sector about the
guideline tariffs
The cancer register has not been updated for eight years, according to Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.
The World Health Organisation has released its annual update on the state of TB around the globe – revealing SA has the highest burden of the disease.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has been on a long-overdue mission to transform SA’s health system since he took office more than three years ago.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has decried the replacement of the healthcare system in Gauteng, Limpopo and the Eastern Cape with "tender-care".