ANALYSIS: The number one challenge in our HIV response
What is the state of South Africa’s HIV response on World AIDS Day 2019? Marcus Low asks the question and identifies our number one problem in combatting the virus as we head into 2020.
NHI Lawmakers: On Godly callings and steering the NHI Bill – Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo.
ANC veteran Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo is chairperson of the National Assembly’s Portfolio Committee on Health and will play a pivotal role in deliberations over the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill. The question is – will it be about serving the people or toeing the party-line?
NHI Lawmakers: Face to face with DA MP Siviwe Gwarube
Siviwe Gwarube is not only one of the Democratic Alliance’s upcoming stars, she is also one of the key people on parliament’s health committee who will soon consider the NHI Bill. Biénne Huisman went to meet her.
Living on a prayer! Navigating a safe passage to health care in the EC.
In the rural Eastern Cape a forest and a river can lie between you and the nearest clinic. As one local puts it, “Many people come here and see beauty, we just see suffering”.
Spotlight on NHI: Money and the politics of aspiration
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.
Spotlight on NHI: Q&A with head of NHI office
Some key questions about NHI have crystallised in recent months. Spotlight put 12 of these questions to Nicholas Crisp, head of government’s NHI office.
63 000 TB deaths in SA in 2018
A total of 63 000 people died of tuberculosis (TB) in South Africa in 2018, according to new figures released by the World Health Organization on Thursday.
