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Opinion: Mboweni didn’t deliver on a 20% health promotion levy. Here’s why it is anti-poor.

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Every year that National Treasury cannot deliver a health promotion levy of 20%, people in South Africa will die from the diseases that this levy could help prevent. And it is the poorest in South Africa who are the hardest hit, argues Lawrence Mbalati.

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Opinion: Mboweni didn’t deliver on a 20% health promotion levy. Here’s why it is anti-poor.

COVID-19: Understanding the increased risk in people with diabetes

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Roughly 42% of people with diabetes who tested positive for COVID-19 and had to be admitted to hospital in the Western Cape had died as of 16 July. Elri Voigt asked experts why people with diabetes who are hospitalised with COVID-19 have such poor prognoses.

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COVID-19: Understanding the increased risk in people with diabetes

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