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Africa needs more emergency care specialists to prevent unnecessary deaths due to a lack of capacity and training.

Medics ‘sabotaged’ Eastern Cape health

The Eastern Cape health department claims hospital staff misled a government inspection team to create a bad impression.
Employees at Messina hospital strike against the actions of their clinical chief executive officer Dr Allick Dube.

Hospital staff dismissed for striking against dodgy doctor

Four Messina Hospital staff members, who are also shop stewards for the union Nehawu, have been dismissed for inciting strike action against a doctor.
Pravin Gordhan's 'careful control of the wage bill' and expenditure on goods and services will impact negatively on health service delivery

How Gordhan’s expenditure cuts could affect health targets

Finance minister Pravin Gordhan’s "careful control of the wage Bill" will impact negatively on health service delivery, says a health economist.
Costly exercise: When Rio de Janeiro celebrated World Aids Day in 2007 it was with the knowledge that patent laws had driven up the cost of Brazil's Aids programme.

Brazil’s sick of patent exploitation

The country is fighting the intellectual property laws that hiked up the cost of its HIV programme.
Rooibos tea's lack of caffeine improves its health benefits.

Green rooibos takes fight to diabetes

An antioxidant found in tea brewed from the indigenous plant offers hope for new treatments.
The same number of South African boys and girls start school

Bring back the lost girls

This country must find ways to keep girls in school and educate them about HIV prevention.
Durban's McCord Hospital will be sold to government early next year.

Government to take over Durban’s McCord Hospital

McCord Hospital in Durban will be sold to the government in a deal that will be concluded next year.
Individual healthcare centres are forced to charge fees

Patient fees cripple Zim’s healthcare

Skewed state funding has left many centres dependent on fees that patients can't afford, writes Mara Kardas-Nelson.
People living with HIV are mostly scrupulous about getting check-ups.

Harsh price of HIV-linked longevity

HIV+ people on ARVs are now living longer lifespans. But the virus's associated diseases could put an unbearable strain on the health system.
Most medical aids won't cover a new

Staunching SA’s pregnancy wound

Unless the state's plan to curb maternal deaths is wholly implemented, it won't make a dent.
Eastern Cape royals are campaigning to use medical circumcision in traditional rituals.

Medical back-up in Pondo initiation

Eastern Cape royals are campaigning to use medical circumcision in traditional rituals.
Phindile Sithole-Spong says that while being HIV positive is hard because of the stigmas surrounding the disease

‘I still have sex, even with HIV’

Two young people speak out about life, and love, and the very real risk of rejection.
Survivor: Douglas Muzanenhamo says Harare Remand Prison was hell on earth.

Nursing Zim prisons back to health

One man's mission to bring sanitary sanity and dignity to those kept behind bars.
Most of the people surveyed in an informal study did not believe penis enlargement 'medicine' was effective

Are penis enlargements worth your while?

Endowment policies differ, but most people agree that "enlargement" promises much, delivers little.
The government made an offer to the board to buy the hospital and turn McCord into a public hospital.

McCord Hospital’s fate turns again

Government officials and McCord Hospital's board picked up negotiations as a court interdict has stalled the health facility's closure.
The closure comes after a failed bid by the department to buy the 104-year-old McCord and run it as a public hospital.

McCord Hospital board contests Nehawu court interdict to stall closure

The National Education Health and Allied Workers' Union has claimed that an interim court interdict has been granted, despite others rejecting this.