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But the Free Market Foundation maintains the plan will cost the state more than it raises in taxes.

The director of the Free Market Foundation suggests that an inquiry into private healthcare was deceptively orchestrated by the health minister.

Being conscious of good eating habits goes a long way towards winning the battle of the bulge.

The government has set several commendable goals but will have to improve its delivery.

The "dysfunctional" Health Professions Council of South Africa will not act immediately on recommendations made by Aaron Motsoaledi's task team.

For many of us, holiday time is drinking time, but shouldn't we be giving our booze-bods a break?

The health scheme is scheduled to be functioning by 2025 but the precise costs are still not known.

The National Health Insurance white paper does not stipulate how the scheme will get funded; it only provides five possible scenarios.

South Africa has become only the second country in the world to allow widespread access to groundbreaking HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis medication.

The global TB rate has been falling by 1.5% per year – far slower than the 10% yearly declines needed to end TB within twenty years.

The health minister has stressed the importance of improving tuberculosis treatment so as to help mitigate the drastic impact of TB-HIV co-infection.

South Africans are waiting and willing to help but the Medicines Control Council drags its heels.

A report by UNAids has revealed that SA's antiretroviral coverage has greatly increased in the last two decades, but remains short of global targets.

But ridding the planet of curable and preventable tuberculosis will tax the world’s existing resources.

A World Health Organisation survey has revealed that antibiotic resistance has become a global crisis.

A TB patient finally gets a disability grant and a woman has free access to the world's most expensive drug.