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Senior clinicians have warned of a healthcare crisis if Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital remains closed. (BigFive Images/ Gallo)

Gauteng patients are victims of a sick system

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…

Out for the count: A team from Statistics South Africa counts the transient population as the 2022 census kicks off with census night in Marabastad, Pretoria, on 2 February. (Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images)

2022 census discriminates against LGBTQIA+ community

LGBTQIA+ organisations have accused Stats SA of being discriminatory for excluding transgender, non-binary and intersex categories in a question relating to sex

Young People take part in a Trans freedom march for victims of transphobic hatred with a banner saying Trans lives matter, on November 20, 2021 in Rome, Italy. Transgender Day of Remembrance (Tdor) is the global day of remembrance for victims of hate and violence against transgender people.  (Photo by Simona Granati – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

South Africa is home to a culture of transphobia

Two M&G articles defending trans-exclusionary views draw on the insidious anti-trans rhetoric flourishing in the UK, but ignore our country’s constitutional protections

It’s time to fashion a new language of development which responds effectively to real people’s real needs

Covid-19 stymies six years of progress in tackling poverty in Gauteng

Some 36% of Gauteng households live in poverty, according to a new survey, with poverty levels having shot up during the course of the pandemic

Surgeons in Paris operate on a patient in a high-tech theatre. (Gerard Julien/AFP)

Human development is under threat

Achieving significant progress means we are going to have to ditch neoliberal capitalism

Jasper Westerink, chief executive of Philips Africa

Adapt as you adopt: Adjusting to digital health tech to drive access to care

Digital health technologies can help to improve the individual citizen and the healthcare professional experience

There are several aspects of the National Health Insurance Bill that still need to be thrashed out before it is implemented

​Three key components of the NHI Bill that need to change

Have a say in the future health system of South Africa

Community healthcare workers are the link

They often identify additional problems, such as people needing food, IDs and housing

The COPC model

Using the COPC Toolkit to plan integrated healthcare delivery

The toolkit integrates data to better predict and respond to health needs in an area

Families await medical treatment outside the All India Institute of Medical Sciences. Ayushman Bharat, a free state insurance scheme, aims to ease the burden of medical costs for India’s poor. (Amrit Dhillon)

‘It’s a godsend’: the healthcare scheme bringing hope to India’s sick

In a country where treatment can cost two years’ wages, a new project could mean free medical care for 500 million people.