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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.
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
NHI funding details absent from budget speech
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has not yet revealed how the government will fund its National Insurance scheme.
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.
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.
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.
Motsoaledi strikes back at NHI critics
But the Free Market Foundation maintains the plan will cost the state more than it raises in taxes.
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.
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.
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.
Drug shortages ‘imperil NHI plan’
A quarter of public clinics ran out of HIV and TB medication last year, a survey has found.
‘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.
Good health without the fear of ruin
Twenty years after the genocide, Rwanda’s health system is showing drastic improvements.
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.
Too much stick, not enough carrot
The state’s proposed certificate of need will not address inequities in rural healthcare.