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"Financial apartheid" hampers South Africa's health future

Public Health

"Financial apartheid" hampers South Africa's health future

3 hours

Mental health isn’t a campaign, it’s a culture

Mental health

Mental health isn’t a campaign, it’s a culture

Issued by icandi CQ 21 Oct 2025

Image credit: Reuters

Infectious Diseases

Diphtheria outbreak in Somalia worsens with vaccine shortages

19 Aug 2025

Image credit: Photo by Mathurin NAPOLY / matnapo on Unsplash

Public Health

The global health system can build back better after US aid cuts – here’s how

Jonathan E. Cohen 8 Aug 2025

Source: Dean Macpherson at the 2024 signing of the historic Durban Declaration between the Department of Public Works & Infrastructure, SA Police Service, Treasury_RSA and cidb_sa at the #NCS2024, which committed to put an end to disruptions at construction sites once and for all.

Infrastructure & Utilities

Fraudulent oxygen plant tender under scrutiny as PwC report drops

1 Aug 2025

Source: Wikimedia/Lschefa, CC BY-SA 4.0. Lesotho’s capital.

HIV/AIDS

Lesotho’s health system has been decimated by US funding cuts

Sechaba Mokhethi 2 Jun 2025

Patients' lives at risk as doctors refuse to work extra overtime without pay

Healthcare

Patients' lives at risk as doctors refuse to work extra overtime without pay

Yoliswa Sobuwa 28 Jan 2025

In the 2000s activists across the world campaigned for antiretroviral treatment to be made available to people with HIV. One of the consequences of this was PEPFAR, the United States government’s foreign aid HIV programme. Since 2003 it has saved millions of lives. But now its future is unclear. Photo from the Treatment Action Campaign’s march for HIV treatment in Cape Town on 14 February 2003. (photographer unknown)

CSI & Philanthropy

Trump’s sudden suspension of foreign aid puts millions of lives in Africa at risk

Liezl Human 23 Jan 2025

Arbor Month in South Africa

CSI & Philanthropy

Arbor Month in South Africa

Issued by Sappi 6 Sep 2024

Source: Reo Botes, managing executive at Essential Employee Benefits.

NHI

The enactment of the NHI Bill should not spark panic or knee-jerk reactions

Reo Botes 26 Jun 2024

Healthcare

National health budget cut: What does this mean for the Western Cape?

10 Apr 2024

Healthcare

SA doctors make up to 40 times more than those in Kenya and Nigeria

Zano Kunene 5 Apr 2024

Public Health

Unemployed doctors march to Union Buildings

Silver Sibiya 28 Feb 2024

Mental health

ADHD: Lack of knowledge and funding major barriers to diagnosis

28 Aug 2023

Mental health

#Budget2023: SA's mental health needs better funding

23 Feb 2023

Mental health disorder is the unspoken pandemic of modern life

Mental health

Mental health disorder is the unspoken pandemic of modern life

Issued by Stone 7 Feb 2023

Nursing

Nursing shortage - government holds the trump card!

Teresa Basson 27 Sep 2022

Destigmatising mental health in corporate culture

Employee Wellness

Destigmatising mental health in corporate culture

Linda Mthenjane, Issued by Trialogue 12 Oct 2021

Diabetes is a growing public health burden. Ververidis Vasilis/Shutterstock

Noncommunicable diseases

We're on the hunt for novel ways to assess the risk of type 2 diabetes

Cecil Jack Weale 14 Apr 2021

Mathari Hospital is the only psychiatric hospital in Kenya. Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images

Mental health

Why Africa needs to invest in mental health

Benedict Weobong & Justice Nonvignon 13 Oct 2020

Mental health in the time of Covid

Mental health

Mental health in the time of Covid

Issued by SACAP 29 Sep 2020

Mthokozisi Maphumulo, associate and litigation attorney, Adams and Adams

Ethics & Medicolegal

Will medical negligence cases spike post Covid-19?

Mthokozisi Maphumulo 17 Sep 2020

A health worker drags an electrocardiograph at the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Johannesburg.
Michele SpatariI/AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19

How South Africa's health system could take a hit from pandemic lawsuits

Keymanthri Moodley & Anita Kleinsmidt 22 May 2020

Tito Mboweni, finance minister. Source: Twitter

Economy

SA has R800bn in its coffers for Covid-19 relief

Nicci Botha 24 Apr 2020

Mental health

We did the sums on South Africa's mental health spend. They're not pretty

Sumaiyah Docrat & Crick Lund 9 Oct 2019

Educating the innovators for community mental health promotion

Higher Education

Educating the innovators for community mental health promotion

Issued by SACAP 23 Sep 2019

South Africa has a skewed healthcare system with an under-funded public sector and an expensive private sector. Shutterstock

NHI

Why South Africa's plans for universal healthcare are pie in the sky

Alex van den Heever 19 Aug 2019

“I am scared every day of my life. The bullets are like rain there [on the Cape Flats],” said Mary Bruce of Hanover Park. Photo: Elsabé Brits

Public Health

Western Cape health services paint bloody picture of gun violence

Elsabé Brits 12 Aug 2019

Pixley Ka Isaka Seme Hospital

Public Health

Still some challenges in KZN health budget

5 Aug 2019

Photo: Paul Botes

Public Health

What to do about South Africa's unemployed doctors

Russell Rensburg 25 Feb 2019

Photo: David Harrison

Healthcare

#BudgetSpeech2019: Will it lead to more doctors being sued for negligence?

Daniel McLaren 21 Feb 2019

Professor Bonga Chiliza

Mental health

SA needs stronger leadership and increased budgets in mental healthcare

11 Jan 2019

Professor Soraya Seedat. Photo: Damien Schumann

Mental health

#WomensMonth: Probing the secrets of mind, body and soul

Jeanne van der Merwe 3 Aug 2018

Health minister, Aaron Motsoaledi

NHI

A step closer to the NHI

20 Jun 2018

Dr Folake Olayinka

Public Health

Nigeria: Political will and investment in immunisation are critical elements for a healthy future

Dr Folake Olayinka 10 Apr 2018

Agriculture

Official: One million farmers grow bio-fortified crops in Nigeria

10 Jan 2018

What is the real cost of NHI?

NHI

What is the real cost of NHI?

Martin van Staden 14 Sep 2017

Digital tool for critical medical decision making

Medtech

Digital tool for critical medical decision making

16 Aug 2017

Photo: Red Cross Children's Trust

NHI

NHI should focus on the poor

12 Jun 2017

How to fund a failing health system

Public Health

How to fund a failing health system

TAWANDA KAROMBO and ADRI KOTZE 6 Apr 2017

HASA slates WHO report on private hospital costs

Healthcare

HASA slates WHO report on private hospital costs

Nicci Botha 20 Jul 2016

Striking a balance in NHI funding

Healthcare

Striking a balance in NHI funding

Nicci Botha 19 Jul 2016

Health... a cornerstone to building a stronger SA

Public Health

Health... a cornerstone to building a stronger SA

Issued by Topco Media 1 Jun 2016

Inaugural FMCG Insights & Conference adjudged a success

FMCG

Inaugural FMCG Insights & Conference adjudged a success

18 May 2016

The real cost of the skills shortage in the SA health sector

Healthcare

The real cost of the skills shortage in the SA health sector

18 May 2016

Health budget highlights

Public Health

Health budget highlights

11 May 2016

Universal health care is a tall order given southern Africa's poor finances

Health & Social Welfare

Universal health care is a tall order given southern Africa's poor finances

Erica Penfold 22 Oct 2015

Multinational companies cheat Africa out of billions of dollars

Administration

Multinational companies cheat Africa out of billions of dollars

4 Jun 2015

World Vision SA welcomes 2014/15 budget

ESG & Sustainability

World Vision SA welcomes 2014/15 budget

3 Mar 2014