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Has Government Aborted the Sexual Reproductive Health Rights of Women?

November 14, 2019

In South Africa women’s sexual and reproductive health rights are often glorified based on our progressive laws. The reality, however, is that women’s sexual and reproductive health rights are routinely undermined in the absence of accurate information on safe abortion services.

Will NHI break the cycle of dysfunction in the Eastern Cape?

November 13, 2019

A healthcare crisis emerges, a report is published, the Eastern Cape Department of Health promises to act. This cycle repeats over and over again without much really being fixed, writes Kathryn Cleary.

Spotlight on NHI: Questions raised over public hearings

November 8, 2019

The public hearings into government’s proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill had a rocky start in Mpumalanga recently as civil society organisations and some opposition parties slammed the process.

Six highlights from a week of important TB developments

November 1, 2019

This week researchers, policymakers and activists gathered in Hyderabad, India for the world’s leading TB conference. We picked six of the week’s most important stories.

Spotlight on NHI: Money and the politics of aspiration

October 30, 2019

NHI is to be implemented in a context of dismal economic fundamentals, but there is nevertheless considerable reason for hope, writes leading health economist Susan Cleary.

NHLS picking up the pieces after R2.7bn in irregular spending

October 30, 2019

Irregular expenditure by the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) in the 2018/19 financial year totalled almost R2,7 billion – the biggest chunk of the R3,03 billion the National Department of Health and all its entities incurred the past financial year.

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#Vote4Health: No road to health in the Northern Cape

May 7, 2019

By Anso Thom, Marcus Low, Nomatter Ndebele and Thom Pierce (photographs) Calvinia, Sutherland, Fraserburg, De Aar, Keimoes, Kakamas. Join Spotlight…

#FootSoldiers: The Environment is everything

May 7, 2019

There is mostly agreement that our environment is in a dire state and that it is closely linked to the health of communities. SECTION27’s Nomatter Ndebele and photojournalist Thom Pierce went to meet Mpumalanga activist Thomas Mnguni.

#Vote4Health: Health in the Northern Cape: Disturbing visions from SA’s forgotten province

May 7, 2019

Health services in large parts of the Northern Cape have virtually collapsed with communities mostly being served by overstretched nurses struggling to cope with the disease and injury burden. The challenges are overwhelming. Spotlight travelled a circular route through the province and clocked up about 2 000 kilometres of mostly dirt and some tar road to take the temperature of South Africa’s largest province.

#Vote4Health: Visuals of Northern Cape collapse

May 7, 2019

Health services in large parts of the Northern Cape have virtually collapsed with communities mostly being served by overstretched nurses…

#FootSoldiers: Umsebenzi wama CHWs – Bringing hope and life to the community of Sweetwaters

May 6, 2019

Spotlight has gone in search of the foot soldiers of the health system, the folk who get the job done quietly and with little fanfare. Nomatter Ndebele and Thom Pierce went to Sweetwaters in KwaZulu-Natal for a reunion with the original Community Health Worker Doris Ntuli.

#Vote4Health: Funding the right to healthcare

May 6, 2019

Despite the Constitutional injunction on the government to ensure that everyone has access to quality health care services, public health care services remain grossly under-funded. By Daniel McLaren and Nomatter Ndebele.

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