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Women may be paying the price for decades’ old concessions to the medical aid industry.

Would you join a medical aid if you were perfectly healthy? Most won’t. That’s why we need waiting periods, says Discovery CEO Jonathan Broomberg.

There's good news and bad news when it comes to PMBs.

When medical schemes and the law count conceiving as a pre-existing condition, pregnant women lose.

Did you know that anyone hailing from SADC has the right to be treated just like a South African?

Women – many of them mothers – constitute more than half of the population. What should moms think of before casting their vote?

This country tested out a national health insurance. Find out what happened next.

Presented this week at the World Health Assembly, the document could usher in a new era in affordable healthcare. Here's why we need it.

Mali joins the ranks of countries such as Sierra Leone, South Africa & Burkina Faso to provide free healthcare to moms and tots.

Recent national and Gauteng memos demanding all foreign patients pay in full for services likely fell foul of the law.

The Special Investigating Unit says it is actively targeting fraudsters in the private healthcare sector.

Women who have been forced to go without their usual birth control shot are now facing the consequences of months-long shortages.

Legal claims against the department now amount to more than half of some provincial health budgets. Less money now will only mean more claims later.

It’s official. Austerity budgets may be here to stay. Here’s how South Africa should be working with what it’s got to provide healthcare.

When a few months of treatment costs as much as a house, some patients are taking their lives and the law into their own hands to survive.

Find out which issues have been prioritised after the Presidential Health Summit.