The progressive case for delaying NHI
Healthcare in South Africa is in a tenuous state. The public healthcare system is in crisis – provinces are underfunded, corruption is rife, in many areas posts are effectively frozen.
More sexual harassment woes for UNAIDS
UNAIDS Nigeria Country Director’s threat to sue AIDS activist Vuyiseka Dubula for implying that he is a sexual predator may have backfired as more witnesses come forward. Update: UNAIDS have since placed Morah on special leave. By Kerry Cullinan, Health-e News Service
Cry Ndlovu Cry
Ndlovu Care Group and patients have been at the centre of a battle with the Limpopo health MEC who ended the contract and wants the almost 4 000 healthy HIV patients transferred to battling state clinics.
It’s a Stick-Up. Your Money or Your Health!
The Competition Commission recommendations made by the Health Market Inquiry may be a once-in-a lifetime possibility to make private health well again.
Ndlovu saga 3: A patient’s story
With the Limpopo Department of Health’s decision not to renew Ndlovu’s contract, Cathrine Thabethe and another 3 773 patients have been transferred to nearby state facilities for treatment. Thabethe spoke from the heart on how this felt and what this meant for patients.
Ndlovu saga 2: “The government doesn’t care about us”
How did it all come to this? An excellent HIV care group shown the door by the MEC Phophi Ramathuba amid some unsavoury social media comments made by her department. Some patients and the Ndlovu CEO Hugo Tempelman try to shed some light, but they are also mostly puzzled.
Ndlovu saga 1: Health MEC shows HIV care group the door despite excellent service
A Limpopo care centre and its clients have been at the centre of a battle with health MEC Phophi Ramathuba who ended the contract and wants the almost 4 000 mostly thriving HIV patients transferred to already battling state clinics. Spotlight’s Ufrieda Ho visited the area and tries to unpack the whole saga in this 3-part series. Pics by Rian Horn.
HMI: Ten key findings about private healthcare in South Africa
Medical schemes and private hospitals have over the last four years been under the Competition Commission’s microscope. While a provisional diagnosis makes unhappy reading for consumers, diagnosis may well in this case be the first step to cure.
Humans in the Age of HIV
We turn the spotlight on people living or working on the margins in South Africa. Referred to some as key populations, these folk - sex workers, trans people, MSMs, injecting…
Analysis: Not all good news in new WHO MDR-TB recommendations
In a move that could help save the hearing of thousands of people with TB, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is advising wider use of newer and repurposed drugs, bedaquiline and linezolid in place of injections that cause deafness.
NHI: Pay attention to process
By Lucy Gilson, Jane Goudge, Uta Lehmann, Helen Schneider The publication of the National Health Insurance (NHI) and Medical Schemes Amendment Bills in June this year is an indication of the…
Decline in AIDS deaths, but SA missing other HIV targets
While AIDS deaths and the rate of new HIV infections in South Africa are declining, the country seems set to miss crucial UNAIDS and National Strategic Plan targets. Around 89 000…