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Hundreds of millions of rands in healthcare costs can be saved if South Africans reduce their salt intake, says deputy health minister Gwen Ramakgopa

Better-quality primary healthcare would result in lower medical aid premiums.

We feature four HIV positive women in their 40s who fit the profile of a typical M&G reader.

Activists says Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan misrepresented the true state of the country's health in his budget speech.

The Rural Health Advocacy Project says the budget was "disappointing" as it does not make provision for improvements in healthcare service delivery.

Badly needed and eager to work here, their efforts are being thwarted by a bureaucratic quagmire.

His reasoning has come in for much criticism, but the minister has no wish to continue the debate.

Bhekisisa director Mia Malan speaks on The Science Inside show about ARV shortages on Voice of Wits radio station.

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi describes Dr Chris Archer's criticism of the national health insurance as ignorant at best.

Minister, please sit down with the private health sector before the NHI has us paying more but getting less, writes Dr Chris Archer.

Practitioners in the private heatlthcare industry have welcomed the Competition Commission panel members who will lead the inquiry into the sector.

Organ donations are rare in SA: donors and the specialists needed to do transplants are few. But awareness increases as more lives are being saved.

Rwanda, too, has succeeded in doing what this country has only been talking about for 18 years.

Fixing healthcare needs a multidisciplinary approach, not just a medical focus.

The Eastern Cape health department claims hospital staff misled a government inspection team to create a bad impression.

Finance minister Pravin Gordhan’s "careful control of the wage Bill" will impact negatively on health service delivery, says a health economist.