Community health workers need to be supported so that policies can be tangibly effective
In ridding the city of the Islamic State, its health system was gutted, affecting 1.8-million residents
‘The programme of radical socio-economic transformation will thus be the main focus of government in the year 2018’
A grassroots Ugandan health initiative has significantly reduced maternal deaths.
In the developed world up to 5% of patients with chronic kidney disease are children. But statistics are harder to come by in the developing world.
Diabetic patients who aren’t treated properly risk having the smallest cut lead to an amputated limb.
The state has a legal obligation to ensure finances are available to provide a skilled healthcare workforce, writes Mark Heywood.
GF Jooste Hospital was a beacon of hope. It should have been renovated, not closed.
An artist’s march from Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital to the Union Buildings has drawn attention to the perilous state of public health in South Africa.
It is a beacon of hope, yet the state’s cystic fibrosis unit at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital might be closed.
Leaders flock south for medical care at taxpayers’ expense as country’s healthcare sector founders.