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Medication for drug-resistant tuberculosis can have serious side-effects like deafness and psychosis.

TB drug priced out of reach

A promising new TB drug is now on the market but doctors say it's been priced out of reach.
A new online tool lets you calculate your chances of falling pregnant via IVF.

How the death of two Ugandan mothers is helping entrench the right to health...

The case has already contributed to improved jurisprudence on socioeconomic rights in Uganda
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan delivers his 2016 budget speech.

NHI funding details absent from budget speech

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has not yet revealed how the government will fund its National Insurance scheme.
Nine-year-old Tumelo shows antiretrovirals.

New state-run pharmaceutical company to produce ARVs by 2019

South Africa will soon get its own facility to make tablets to treat HIV and other ailments.
Remote: Zodwa Zulu*

It’s only 32km to the state clinic, but for the poor that’s a world...

Some residents in rural towns in Mpumalanga have to chose between buying food or going to the doctor.
Although the scheme's white paper was released at an economically uncertain time.

NHI a healthy dose to cure South Africa’s sickly system

Although the scheme's white paper was released at an economically uncertain time, it brings possibilities to those in need.
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi will be met with court cases from the private healthcare sector while dealing with pressure from trade unions to speed up the process.

Motsoaledi strikes back at NHI critics

But the Free Market Foundation maintains the plan will cost the state more than it raises in taxes.
Although the scheme's white paper was released at an economically uncertain time.

Motsoaledi accused of trying to control private health prices

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

Nursing SA back to health

The government has set several commendable goals but will have to improve its delivery.
The health scheme is scheduled to be functioning by 2025 but the precise costs are still not known.

All the nuts and bolts of the NHI

The health scheme is scheduled to be functioning by 2025 but the precise costs are still not known.
“We did not identify any source of funding. We have just identified several methods of financing the NHI

Motsoaledi: We haven’t identified a source of funding for the NHI

The National Health Insurance white paper does not stipulate how the scheme will get funded; it only provides five possible scenarios.
Bitter pill: Soweto resident Pamela Mantyi struggles to get insulin from her local clinic because of stock shortages. Photos: Madelene Cronjé

Drug shortages ‘imperil NHI plan’

A quarter of public clinics ran out of HIV and TB medication last year, a survey has found.
Pernicious neglect: Frik Balanco died after he succumbed to ‘a hospital acquired bacterial infection’ that resulted in pneumonia.

‘It’s the Free State hospital that killed my husband, Frik’

Doctors say Dihlabeng hospital doesn't have the medicine and staff to help patients.
Life: Pelagie Nyirambarushimana and her child Francine Niyonshuti at the Central University Hospital of Kigali. Rwanda has made drastic improvements in reducing child mortality.

Good health without the fear of ruin

Twenty years after the genocide, Rwanda’s health system is showing drastic improvements.
Junior doctors lives stand still as they wait to be paid after the human resource staff failed to capture their details to the payroll system on time.

Health systems innovation is the path to better health

New health discoveries are often not immediately accessible or affordable to the average individual, particularly in low and middle-income countries.
Critical care: A local clinic is being built in Mvezo

Too much stick, not enough carrot

The state’s proposed certificate of need will not address inequities in rural healthcare.