New safety concerns emerge on latest HIV wonder drug

The health department has effectively de-coupled the amendment bill from the NHI Bill, with the health market inquiry report only expected in March 2019

The involvement of a Discovery Health executive in the Competition Commission's probe into the healthcare market has stirred a hornet’s nest

Participants were offered reward points they could redeem for coffee, smoothies, groceries and gadgets, if they increased their physical activity and improved ...

Medication could affect muscles, joints, tendons as well as nervous system

This is more than double the number of healthcare posts announced in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s economic stimulus package in September

Regulatory authority has banned medicines containing sodium valproate during pregnancy unless no other treatment is available

One of the most fiercely contested aspects of the bill is the role of medical schemes, which Cosatu wants to see sharply reduced

Thursday’s statement makes it clear the cabinet has not given the bill the green light, but it is unclear what its concerns are

Virtually all SA’s newly qualified nurses have been placed in public sector posts for 2019

US global AIDS co-ordinator says SA will have 10-million people living with HIV by 2030 if it does not find a way to stem the tide of new infections

‘Men come in later and sicker, are less likely to take their therapy and more likely to drop out of treatment programmes,’ says HIV expert Francois Venter

The panel has been at pains to show it is taking heed of concerns raised by stakeholders at every step of the way

Cyril Ramaphosa’s ambitions of getting a blueprint for fixing SA’s health system hits a stumbling block

The health minister has rejected recent media articles alleging irregularities in the way the NHI Bill is being processed by the government

The hotly contested bill paves the way for the establishment of a central fund that will purchase services on behalf of patients

Civil society groups have called on the cabinet to send the NHI bill back to the department of health and require a more thorough consultation process