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

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.

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

Rare diseases lead to development of new drugs that, like other rare commodities command high prices.

A Western Cape project is looking to make free vaccines available in private clinics, but the Eastern Cape has stopped the practice.

A centre employing only men has opened in Khayelitsha to address the needs of males uneasy about being seen at mixed-gender facilities.

The country has a high suicide rate, psychiatric illnesses are on the rise and stress has become normalised.

A quarter of public clinics ran out of HIV and TB medication last year, a survey has found.

A survey of stock levels of HIV drugs is in stark contrast to health department claims that "there is no shortage".

Doctors say Dihlabeng hospital doesn't have the medicine and staff to help patients.

Without good lighting, plants and privacy, the open-plan office can become a threat to the wellbeing of the people working there.

Twenty years after the genocide, Rwanda’s health system is showing drastic improvements.

Although 65% of South Africans reportedly have been tested for HIV at least once, annual testing figures are much lower.

New health discoveries are often not immediately accessible or affordable to the average individual, particularly in low and middle-income countries.

To speed up the country's delivery of qualified doctors, Western Cape Health MEC Theuns Botha says private medical schools are necessary.