A "revolution" in South Africa’s response to HIV/Aids will unfold next month, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Thursday.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has said he will not make his HIV test results public as that would put pressure on people who did not follow suit.
The Cabinet has approved an implementation plan to scale up the HIV/Aids prevention programme recently presented by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has dismissed accusations that President Zuma damaged the fight against Aids after fathering a child out of wedlock.
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/ 15 February 2010
Swine flu will be one of the Health Department’s "biggest nightmares" during the Soccer World Cup, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Monday.
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/ 20 November 2009
A group of senior government officials is to assess the state of South Africa’s 354 public hospitals, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Friday.
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/ 19 November 2009
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi told hospital chief executives and managers on Thursday to shape up or they will be removed.
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/ 18 November 2009
Doctors, nurses and pharmacists are refusing to work in South Africa’s prisons, Parliament heard on Wednesday.
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/ 13 November 2009
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has undertaken to investigate the cases of HIV-infected patients allegedly refused antiretroviral treatment.
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/ 11 November 2009
The SA Medical Association is ”gravely concerned” about HIV/Aids statistics, which show a huge Aids-related leap in South Africa’s death rate.
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/ 10 November 2009
South Africa’s death rate doubled over the last decade due to the spread of Aids, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Tuesday.
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/ 9 November 2009
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has poured cold water on the possibility of a national health insurance (NHI) scheme being up and running soon.
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/ 6 November 2009
The fight against HIV/Aids needs to be intensified, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Friday.
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/ 15 September 2009
SA won’t meet a target of providing life-prolonging drugs to 80% of people living with HIV/Aids by 2011, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says.
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/ 11 September 2009
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi is in the process of buying two Mercedes-Benzes to the tune of R1,2-million, his department said this week.
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/ 11 September 2009
SA is lagging behind the rest of Africa with its HIV/Aids campaigns because it talks too much and acts too slowly, the health minister says.
Over 60 000 children, aged between a month and five years, die in South Africa each year, according to a report released at a health summit.
It is clear that not enough is being done to decrease the deaths of newborns and their mothers in South Africa, the health minister said on Tuesday.
All pregnant women with flu-like symptoms should immediately be put on Tamiflu, Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi said on Tuesday.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has called on the generic medicine industry to invest more in researching the long-term effects of ARVs.
The government is looking into whether it would run out of funding for HIV/Aids drugs in this financial year, the health minister said on Friday.
Some of the country’s lowest paid doctors will receive up to a 53% pay increase, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said in Pretoria on Wednesday.
South Africans and travellers to the Confederations Cup need not panic after SA’s first case of swine flu was confirmed, the Health Department says.
The government’s plan to create a national healthcare programme will likely result in higher taxes, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Monday.
Remuneration, ageing infrastructure and general and financial management continue to hamper the public health system in South Africa.