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South Africa is the first country in the world to use ATM-like machines to dispense chronic medication.

These ATMs have swopped bills for pills. Here’s why

Meet a South African getting her HIV medication at the press of a button.
More than 80 countries around the world have used a simple training programme to help nurses and doctors prevent more infant deaths. Could it work in SA?

Thousands of babies die each year in SA. This could help save them

A week. That's how long most newborns who die will make it in South Africa. But there may be hope yet for the country's tiniest patients
Ramaphosa plans to combat gender-based violence with a new national strategic plan.

SA to launch plan to tackle gender-based violence. Read Ramaphosa’s speech here.

"Twenty-thousand people were killed in the past year. The majority of killers and victims are men," Ramaphosa says at summit.
Former Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu still sits on the provincial executive committee.

Hlongwa, Mahlangu remain on high-level ANC body despite ban on public office

Read the ANC Gauteng executive committee statement on embattled former health MECs Brian Hlongwa and Qedani Mahlangu as well as former Emfuleni mayor.
#AIDS2016: Thousands march to demand sufficient global funding and treatment for all

Bhekisisa presents: From paper to provinces — tracking SA’s HIV/TB plan

#TrackingTheNSP: Ahead of World Aids Day, hear just how far provinces have come putting the national plan into practice.
One country, one healthcare system was a theme at Ramaphosa's summit

The National Health Insurance: Who’s in, who’s out and how much will it cost

The NHI was the centre of this weekend’s presidential health summit. Now the pressure is mounting for Treasury to figure out how to fund it.
The two-day Presidential Health Summit covered everything from challenges to funding a National Health Insurance to the need to re-think doctor training and end cadre deployment.

SIU hones in on healthcare sector: ‘Prosecutions have to follow’

After two days of deliberations on the National Health Insurance, delegates are expected to summarise findings and present the way forward.
Find out what Deputy President David Mabuza said in his keynote at the Presidential Health Summit.

Mabuza: ‘The NHI must not negate private health schemes for those who desire them’

Read what Deputy President David Mabuza had to say about primary health care and the NHI in his Presidential Health Summit speech.
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One year on: Relive SA’s historic Life Esidimeni arbitration

The deaths of at least 144 mental health patients shook SA to its core and led to a historic arbitration that lasted more than 40 days.
The organisation Rainbow Riots in Uganda hopes to open the country's first centre for the LGBTI community that would also provide health information.

Minister condemns plans for first LGBTI centre as ‘criminal act’

Ugandan campaigners are warned they will break the country's anti-homosexuality law if they open the safe space.
E-cigarettes are gaining popularity

The tobacco industry says vaping is 95% safer than smoking. Should you believe it?

Find out what you need to know with this latest article in our series separating tobacco fact from fiction.
A new report references Life Esidimeni as an example of what not to do with mental healthcare users.

People are still being shackled and tortured for living with this disease

The Life Esidimeni tragedy makes headlines again in a new global report.
Alcohol kills an estimated 2.8-million people each year and not always in the ways you might think.

Why this legal drug may put you at risk for a killer infectious disease

That tot or two might be putting you at risk for...an infectious disease? Find out what you need to know.
South African surgeons have successfully transplanted a liver from an HIV-positive mother to her HIV-negative child.

South Africa makes history: An HIV-positive mom donates her liver

This mother asked doctors to allow her to save her child. Read how she did it.
Daydreams of a health minister: The high-level meeting on TB this week in New York is in part the work of Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.

SA experimental TB vaccine is the first in almost a century to slash new...

Scroll down to read the latest trial results as part of our live blog from the UN's recent high level meeting on TB.
Nation of the hour: South Africa took on the United States when it went for the mat for affordable medicine access in the world's first UN declaration on TB.

What to expect from the world’s first high-level UN meeting on TB

Ramaphosa and Motsoaledi are expected to draw high praise at a UN meeting this week. Find out why.