After two days of deliberations on the National Health Insurance, delegates are expected to summarise findings and present the way forward.
Motsoaledi is expected to join experts, academics and business to discuss how NHI will be financed and the private sector’s involvement.
The substances that cause cancer leave their fingerprints behind. Now, the world may be closer than ever to unravelling the clues hidden in our DNA.
The deaths of at least 144 mental health patients shook SA to its core and led to a historic arbitration that lasted more than 40 days.
Ugandan campaigners are warned they will break the country’s anti-homosexuality law if they open the safe space.
Find out what you need to know with this latest article in our series separating tobacco fact from fiction.
This mother asked doctors to allow her to save her child. Read how she did it.
When the US went to bat for Big Pharma in the fight against this killer disease, South Africa wasn’t having any of it. Here’s what happened next.
Obstetrician Eddie Mhlanga often had to attend to women who had unsafe abortions during apartheid, when abortion was illegal in South Africa.
Are faith-based NGOs breaking the law when they refuse to give women information on where to terminate their pregnancies?
Dear Tisa, you have a point but we’ve got a reason to be wary.
Hospice isn’t just a place to die but funding cuts – and that perception – could be killing our chances of a kinder death as refuges close
Shame doesn’t start when menstruation begins. It is built in slow steps.
And about half of its ambulances are standing idle.
A dearth of mental health professionals is leading some people to get creative about counselling.
The strategy aims to, for instance, slash new HIV infections by more than 60%.
When one man was on his deathbed, his family knew how he wanted to die and could respect that.
Letting doctors know what type of end-of-life care you’re comfortable with results in a more dignified death and lower hospital costs.
Life Orientation 2.0? Why it may be time for a new take on an old subject.
When we got our independence, we did not ask ourselves what kind of ethics this new country needed. SA’s health ombud reflects on his first big case.
Go inside this unspoken ethical dilemma South African doctors face every day.
South Africa could become one of a growing number of countries that require plain packaging for cigarettes.
Late UCT Medical School dean Bongani Mayosi pioneered the response to a little known but common heart disease at home and across the continent.
Take a look at the newest HIV treatment set to hit South Africa’s shores in 2019.
Men who have sex with men can now take on-demand pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, safely.
Researchers once again confirmed: It’s impossible for HIV-positive people on treatment to transmit the virus through sex — this time among gay men.
The pair continues to survive politically despite being implicated in deadly mismanagement and graft during their tenures as Gauteng health MECs.
More than four-million people in the country are now on antiretroviral treatment.
Scientists studied soldiers with PTSD and even children who’d witnessed a great tragedy. Did they unlock the secrets of resilience?
Is a lack of competition fuelling unnecessary care at your expense?
History repeats as old health emergencies emerge anew. Is the health ombud the person to lead fights the Human Rights Commission started?
Read what Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has up his sleeve for your medical aid.