Thami Mseleku

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/ 15 September 2008

War over healthcare

Legislation aimed at stabilising medical schemes has run into heavy flak, reports Belinda Beresford.

By Belinda Beresford

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/ 8 July 2008

Govt considers value of grants in tough economic times

The government is considering increasing the value of social grants in order to soften the blow of high food prices.

By Staff Reporter

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/ 5 June 2008

Zuma: Rising food prices a time bomb

The rising cost of food is a time bomb that could result in uprisings, African National Congress president Jacob Zuma told the World Economic Forum on Africa on Thursday.

By Staff Reporter

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/ 5 May 2008

Govt mulls food vouchers for poor households

The government is looking at giving food vouchers or cash to poor households to help them cope with spiralling food prices. ”We’re looking at a range of options … such as food vouchers, [as well as] increasing cash transfers in the case of people already on the social-assistance programme,” Social Development Director General Vusi Madonsela said on Monday.

By Richard Davies

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/ 11 April 2008

Give the public access to private healthcare, says govt

Private health facilities should be more accessible to the general public, Health Department Director General Thami Mseleku said on Friday. Speaking at a primary healthcare conference in Boksburg, he suggested a system that provides for the government to refund private hospitals and clinics for treating patients without medical funds.

By Staff Reporter

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/ 12 March 2008

Govt reluctant to probe Rath, court told

The Department of Health has shown a decided lack of enthusiasm for investigating the activities of vitamin entrepreneur Matthias Rath, the Cape High Court was told on Wednesday. ”The government has failed completely in its … duties to protect the health of the public,” said Geoff Budlender, advocate for the Treatment Action Campaign.

By Staff Reporter

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/ 27 January 2008

Dilemma as SA faces drug resistant TB epidemic

A guard in a surgical mask patrols a wire fence designed to keep dozens of patients with a lethal form of tuberculosis at Cape Town’s Brooklyn Chest hospital isolated from the rest of the world. Sufferers of extreme drug resistant tuberculosis, a near untreatable strain, battle boredom, depression and the side-effects of a daily palmful of pills.

By Mariette Le Roux

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/ 21 November 2007

Health Dept points to possible decline in HIV infections

South Africa was experiencing a possible decline of new HIV infections, Health Director General Thami Mseleku said on Wednesday. Speaking on the same day as the release of a United Nations report stating that South Africa had the highest prevalence of HIV in the world, Mseleku said there were signs that there was a turnaround in the number of new infections.

By Staff Reporter

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/ 25 September 2007

Will Public Protector probe Manto ads?

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has written to the Public Protector to complain about the Health Department’s advertisements placed in various newspapers last week to protest against a judge’s failure to interdict the Sunday Times over its reports on the medical records of Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.

By Mail Guardian Online Reporter, Sapa Author, Sapa Afp and I Net Bridge

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/ 21 September 2007

Manto newspaper ads meet stiff opposition

Full-colour advertisements placed in a number of national newspapers on Friday by the Health Department defending its Minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, were a waste of taxpayers’ money, the Democratic Alliance said. The United Democratic Movement also criticised the advertisements.

By Staff Reporter

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/ 30 August 2007

Warning sounded over resistance to ARV drugs

South Africa is facing the possibility of state Aids patients developing ”major resistance” to currently prescribed antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, Health Director General Thami Mseleku said on Thursday. ”The challenge is going to be huge,” he told a parliamentary media briefing.

By Richard Davies

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/ 29 August 2007

ANC: We knew of Manto’s theft charges

The African National Congress (ANC) said on Wednesday it knew about Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s dismissal on theft charges from a Botswana hospital in 1976, South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) radio news reported. The Sunday Times reported two weeks ago that Tshabalala-Msimang had been convicted of theft.

By Staff Reporter

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/ 29 August 2007

Activists accuse Manto of hampering Aids fight

Embattled Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was accused by Aids activists on Wednesday of fuelling the country’s HIV crisis by obstructing efforts to combat the disease. A raft of NGOs, including the leading Aids lobby, said the recent sacking of the deputy health minister had raised fears that a widely praised Aids programme was being undermined.

By Staff Reporter

War over healthcare

Zuma: Rising food prices a time bomb

Govt mulls food vouchers for poor households

Give the public access to private healthcare, says govt

Govt reluctant to probe Rath, court told

Dilemma as SA faces drug resistant TB epidemic

Health Dept points to possible decline in HIV infections

Will Public Protector probe Manto ads?

Manto newspaper ads meet stiff opposition

Warning sounded over resistance to ARV drugs

ANC: We knew of Manto’s theft charges

Activists accuse Manto of hampering Aids fight

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