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The latest Bill related to the National Health Insurance

Maximum intervention prescribed

The HPCSA failed to rein in medical aid schemes — now it’s up to the Competition Commission
As multiple drug suppliers are failing to keep up with demand

Millions are denied morphine that will free them from pain

Markets, attitudes and the war on drugs are the barriers that prevent patients having access to opioid-based pain medication.
An open letter to ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe

We should be allies, not enemies, Gwede Mantashe

An open letter to ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe.
Cataract surgery will become part of Madagascar's universal healthcare programme.

Truth about cataracts is plain to see: They can be treated

More developing countries are offering sight-saving surgery in their public health systems, but specialist eye surgeons are in short supply.
Edwin Inganji’s smartphone app quickly connects users in Nairobi to emergency services.

Feel unsafe? There’s an app for that

With crime rates high and no efficient emergency number available, an app developed by a student aims to make people in Kenya feel safer.
Mosquito control: A Nicaraguan health worker fumigates an area in Managua.

Key institutes keep keen watch on Zika for Africa

The Ebola outbreak on the continent showed how countries with poor health systems are unfit to fight epidemics.

Dying in the line of duty

The murder of an Mpumalanga doctor on duty has exposed the lax security at public hospitals.
Bhekisisa's first fellowship is coming to end and fellow

Bhekisisa journalism fellowships

Bhekisisa's first fellowship is coming to end and fellow, Sydney Masinga, speaks about his experience. If you're an interested journalist apply now.
South Africa's Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi played a leading role in convening government heads at a United Nations meeting this week.

Motsoaledi: “TB advocates should learn from their HIV colleagues”.

The health minister has stressed the importance of improving tuberculosis treatment so as to help mitigate the drastic impact of TB-HIV co-infection.
Would you betray your partner in crime if it meant you could avoid jail? Here's how this mentality can push up the price of medicines.

New TB drug regimen on the horizon

Patients with drug resistant TB could benefit from a new drug regimen, which will be tested in clinical trials this year.
Where will newly qualified doctors go if provinces are being told to scale back staff under budget pressures?

Free State’s ‘collapsing’ health dept needs help, stat

The TAC and Section27 say their investigation into the province's health department shows it needs urgent intervention by three state ministries.
Diseases in Dadaab refugee camp can spread quickly

Camp closure is next health crisis

Sending Dadaab's refugees back to Somalia will become the next health emergency.
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[WATCH] Zweli Mkhize presents the health budget and the National Health Insurance Bill

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize introduces the National Health Insurance Bill, which will create a central healthcare fund overseen by his office.
Cutting edge: A story that brought home the horror of botched circumcisions.

Talks on clear-cut solutions to circumcision initiated

Doctors and traditional leaders have begun negotiating to allow doctors to assist with circumcisions to reduce initiation-related deaths and injuries.
The NPA offered to drop charges against community health workers if they admitted guilt

Health workers reject deal to drop ‘night vigil’ charges

The Free State government had them arrested during a protest against their dismissal, now the workers say they will fight the charges in court.
Draft national health department guidelines will look to balance a doctor or nurse's right recuse themselves from performing abortions with a person's right to choose.

Preventative care will lower costs

Better-quality primary healthcare would result in lower medical aid premiums.