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Healthcare

Sugary drinks are a killer: a 20% tax would save lives and rands in South Africa

Susan Goldstein 4 Apr 2025

Healthcare

Oral health is more than smiles: South Africa’s public health emergency

27 Mar 2025

Tobacco industry targeting Africa’s youth as new market, warns UP expert

Higher Education

Tobacco industry targeting Africa’s youth as new market, warns UP expert

Issued by University of Pretoria 11 Mar 2025

Source: Supplied.

Healthcare

Another busy day for Africa Health

23 Oct 2024

What every expectant parent needs to know about maternity and newborn care cover, Medshield

Medical Aid

What every expectant parent needs to know about maternity and newborn care cover, Medshield

Issued by Stone 6 Sep 2024

Source: Supplied. Nokuzola Mtshiya, Head: Stakeholder Relations and Business Development, Board of Healthcare Funders.

Financial Services

Shattering ceilings: How women are revolutionising healthcare in SA

29 Aug 2024

Source: Supplied. Prof Lucy Gilson, the head of UCT’s Health Policy and Systems Division, was co-awarded the prestigious Virchow Prize in Germany.

Healthcare

UCT academic scoops prestigious global health award

30 Jul 2024

Source: Reuters.

NHI

Parliament's opening: GNU's NHI execution a key test for government cohesion

Katja Hamilton 19 Jul 2024

NHI

In a surprise move, Ramaphosa to sign NHI Bill into law before 29 May elections

14 May 2024

Public Health

Can the UN impose sanctions on SA? You bet it can… and One Health may be the tipping point

Katja Hamilton 15 Mar 2024

Malaria

Cape Verde is the third African country to eliminate malaria: here’s how

Tiaan de Jager and Taneshka Kruger 5 Feb 2024

NHI

NCOP's NHI approval: No surprise here

Mike Settas 12 Dec 2023

NHI

"Business must stop grovelling and realise its power to oppose NHI"

David Ansara 22 Nov 2023

Source: Supplied. Tom Kariuki, SFA Foundation executive director at the Deltas Africa ll launch event in Nairobi, Kenya.

Medical Research

Science for Africa Foundation launches $70m research programme

11 May 2023

NHI

The progress towards achieving universal health coverage needs to remain on track

Ahmed Banderker 20 Mar 2023

Bonitas offers Panda app for mental health

Mental health

Bonitas offers Panda app for mental health

Issued by Bonitas 9 Jan 2023

NHI

NHI: Implementation headaches loom for health dept

Ndivhuwo Mukwevho 4 Jan 2023

Public Health

'Tobacco industry exaggerations of illicit trade should not deter tobacco tax increases'

27 Sep 2022

Healthcare

A call to plug SA's e-cigarette regulation gap

30 May 2022

New IMF chief economist weighs in on world economic outlook

Economy

New IMF chief economist weighs in on world economic outlook

20 Apr 2022

Mental health

Panda app: first of its kind in addressing mental-health needs this festive season

23 Dec 2021

Source: ©Ion Chiosea

Financial Services

Earned wage access to assist in mental wellness

14 Oct 2021

Source: ©Elvira Koneva

Covid-19

Compulsory Covid-19 vaccines?

28 Sep 2021

Source:©GettyImages

Practice management

Quality of care poor in Africa

2 Sep 2021

UN warns excluding women from top jobs threatens Covid-19 recovery

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

UN warns excluding women from top jobs threatens Covid-19 recovery

Sharon Kimathi 8 Jul 2021

Source: ©dolgachov

Education & Training

Health professionals work in teams: their training should prepare them

Gérard Charl Filies & Josè Frantz 6 Jul 2021

Covid-19

Africa has few vaccines: Here's what can still be done to minimise the impact of Covid-19

Deoraj Caussy 30 Jun 2021

Image source: Getty/Gallo

NHI

There are alternate solutions to SA's ill-fated NHI

31 May 2021

Call for more midwives as millions die in childbirth

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Call for more midwives as millions die in childbirth

Sonia Elks 6 May 2021

Noncommunicable diseases

Zambia must find a way to balance the economy and public health in tax policy

Mulenga Mary Mukanu 23 Apr 2021

UCT doctoral candidates win L'Oréal-Unesco award

Higher Education

UCT doctoral candidates win L'Oréal-Unesco award

11 Dec 2020

A Covid-19 test in Utah. The country’s pandemic response has been politicised, making comprehensive changes to public health more difficult.
AP Photo/Rick Bowmer

Covid-19

Poor US pandemic response will reverberate in healthcare politics for years, health scholars warn

Simon F Haeder & Sarah E Gollust 4 Nov 2020

During the Covid-19 pandemic, WHO is supporting the Ghana Health Service in their efforts to continue providing essential medical services to the population at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Ghana. Photo: WHO / Blink Media - Nana Kofi Acquah

Covid-19

5 quick wins to re-invent Africa's health systems

Rachel Ndirangu & Rosemarie Muganda-Onyando 23 Oct 2020

Covid-19: Examining theories for Africa's low death rates

Covid-19

Covid-19: Examining theories for Africa's low death rates

Kevin Mars & Moses Alobo 8 Oct 2020

Medical Research

Locals must lead the way to African scientific capacity and solutions

Victoria Kasprowicz & Denis Chopera 16 Sep 2020

13,135 nurses employed since Covid-19 outbreak

Nursing

13,135 nurses employed since Covid-19 outbreak

14 Sep 2020

Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi can make a simple policy change that can allow South Africa to implement a health programme that will be a model for the world. Photo: Tariro Washinyira

Covid-19

Here's a quick health win for government

GroundUp editors 25 Aug 2020

How South African food companies go about shaping public health policy in their favour

FMCG

How South African food companies go about shaping public health policy in their favour

Gary Sacks, Eric Crosbie and Melissa Mialon 30 Jul 2020

Exposure to sunshine for a few minutes is enough to provide sufficient vitamin D. GettyImages

Medical Research

Think vitamin D deficiency is not common in Africa? Think again

Reagan Mogire 29 Jun 2020

Mining industry plans to increase Covid-19 testing capacity

Mining

Mining industry plans to increase Covid-19 testing capacity

26 Jun 2020

Misha Jordaan/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Covid-19

The new architectural frontier: buildings and their microbiomes

Jako Nice 15 Jun 2020

Self-diagnostic app helps pinpoint virus hotspots

Covid-19

Self-diagnostic app helps pinpoint virus hotspots

22 May 2020

A member of the Nigerian Health Task Force fumigates a building in Abuja, Nigeria, as the city struggles to curb the spread of coronavirus. COVID-19 Photo by Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images

Economy

Steps to inoculate African economies against the impact of coronavirus

Chuku Chuku 15 May 2020

Digital transformation vital to improve service delivery

4th Industrial Revolution

Digital transformation vital to improve service delivery

Andy Dikobo 7 May 2020

Minerals Council outlines industry readiness

Mining

Minerals Council outlines industry readiness

28 Apr 2020

Covid-19

#OnTheFrontLine with Dr Kerrin Begg

Nicci Botha 24 Apr 2020

South African Law Enforcement officers check movement papers during the country’s 21-day national total lockdown. Nic Bothma/EPA

Human Rights Law

Covid-19: How personal versus public freedoms are playing out in South Africa

Harriet Etheredge 3 Apr 2020

Credit: Elijah O'Donnell on .

Media

Why Africa's journalists aren't doing a good job on Covid-19

George Ogola 26 Mar 2020

Why a one-size-fits-all approach to Covid-19 could have lethal consequences

Health & Social Welfare

Why a one-size-fits-all approach to Covid-19 could have lethal consequences

Alex Broadbent and Benjamin T H Smart 23 Mar 2020