More women than men are unemployed, partly because they are engaged in unpaid labour: caregiving, cooking and cleaning
There is a chronic shortage of staff at Baragwanath training hospital and patient care is declining, yet the provincial government is letting hundreds of temporary Covid workers go
The blame for the fire at Charlotte Maxeke hospital and the delays in refurbishing and reopening its damaged sections has been placed squarely at the feet of the provincial government
Digital health can improve healthcare access in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in rural areas, but it internet connectivity remains a challenge
While the Democrats and Republicans use an outdated political playbook, people need protection from the capitalist system itself
LGBTQIA+ organisations have accused Stats SA of being discriminatory for excluding transgender, non-binary and intersex categories in a question relating to sex
Covid-19 has had a negative impact on blood donations; blood conservation has become a priority
The prices charged by health multinational Roche were ‘significantly out of kilter’, the Competition Commission found
Privatisation stands to deepen inequalities. But some experts say collaboration between business and government can work in everyone’s interest
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Beset by political instability, the region is also the canary in the climate change coal mine
Having been on the front line of the Covid pandemic, many health carers now have to deal with joblessness, job insecurity and mental health issues
Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya among 27 countries yet to sign the treaty for the establishment of the African Medicines Agency.
If the government is unwilling to ensure our patients’ basic constitutional right to access healthcare, it is time to investigate a private-public partnership to repair our facility
For more than five years the deputy president has remained steadfast in his right to travel abroad to receive medical treatment
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The physics 2021 Nobel prize means the conversation is no longer about debating whether climate change is real, but rather what we should do about it
The system needs to be more open and inclusive to give young people, civil society, the private sector, academia, and others a spot at the table
President Cyril Ramaphosa welcomed the investment, noting that it ‘is a leapfrog to cutting edge technology’
Indemnity clauses and fears of fake jabs mean Nigeria’s government must do its vaccine roll-out alone
Water is central to human life and cuts across the sustainable development goals water
Women at South African National Blood Service are driving innovation in areas well beyond merely ensuring a reliable supply of blood for transfusions
Russia’s COVID vaccine, Sputnik V, is plagued by a series of red flags and question marks surrounding its clinical trials and results. Here’s how the jab took a shortcut and created sceptics about its underlying science.
We ask the infectious diseases specialist 18 questions about the Covid-19 pandemic: from how to counter vaccine hesitancy to whether life will ever return to ‘normal’
Christopher Duntsch’s surgical outcomes were so outlandishly poor that Texas prosecuted him for harming patients. Why did it take so long for the systems that are supposed to police problem doctors to stop him from operating?
Ramaphosa needs to build broad political consensus if he is to have any chance of pursuing his fiscal and structural reform agenda
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The TAC wants the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital, closed after a fire in April, to reopen fully as soon as possible, because other hospitals are overburdened.
The tumult in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng has forced people to go without chronic medication and check-ups, caused shortages at the blood bank and disruptions in the vaccine roll out
Children have accounted for a relatively low number of coronavirus cases, but other facets of their healthcare and wellbeing have suffered
Twenty pharmacies in KZN have been looted and damaged, while one was burned down and several others closed their doors as a precaution
Forum urges African governments to enable fair policies that create room for agribusiness to thrive and to consult the sector when formulating these
The way our government — and its leader — have handled the pandemic leaves much to be desired
The fact that access to quality healthcare is determined by race, gender, geography and power is proven, as is healthcare’s shameful history of exploitation of those with less power for ‘research’. The future must do better
Two people who were vaccinated and then got Covid-19 have mixed feelings about getting the jab