According to the 2022-23 District Health Barometer, there has been a 6.1% increase in the number of deliveries by girls and women aged 10 to 19, over the past five years
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The Bulungula Incubator in the Eastern Cape has set up a medicine pick up point close to people’s homes, assisting them in sticking to their treatment
Once slices of the healthcare funding pie are dished out to provinces, there is little control over how this money is spent to benefit the rural poor.
Some pharmacists will be doing their community service at private pharmacies amid a shortage of posts.
Ethiopia’s rural health extension workers have helped halve the country’s child death rate.
GPs working in the National Health Insurance’s biggest pilot site say they won’t stay because of drug stock-outs, staff shortages and long queues
More than 200 newly qualified doctors may be left with worthless degrees if provinces can’t raise funds for internship positions
Often medical help comes too late for people in rural areas but community health workers could change this
Already used in countries like Namibia, the ambulances could help cut child and maternal mortality rates.
The Mail & Guardian travelled to the North West and Eastern Cape to find out more about the hidden lives of trans people on the frontline.
Healthcare for Kenya’s semi-nomadic communities comes in an unlikely form of camels, who carry medicine to the country’s most remote villages.
Leaders of Zimbabwe’s Apostolic sects are warming to the idea of women giving birth at health clinics.
Primary healthcare barely exists outside our urban centres, and apartheid-ordained inequality is stark.
The state’s proposed certificate of need will not address inequities in rural healthcare.
To improve the lives of millions, the Global South must drive pro-poor policies on the world stage.
Although working conditions are tough in rural areas, doctors need to go where they are most needed, says a medical student.
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/ 22 November 2013
Sihle Batiya’s luckier than most – but the odds are stacked against kids with Down’s syndrome in the Eastern Cape.
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/ 8 November 2013
Undaunted by apartheid and Aids, she has made all the difference to those otherwise abandoned.
Healthcare that is accessible to all is the foundation on which an equitable and efficient system must be built.
What, if anything, does the private healthcare sector have to offer the rural poor?
Mia Malan describes the arduous trek an Eastern Cape woman had to undertake to get medical attention for her sick grandson.
South Africa’s rural doctors have been thrust into the spotlight by the cases of Colin Pfaff, who sourced funding for antiretroviral drugs for pregnant women when the politicians failed to do so.