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Multinational pharmaceutical companies push back on new patent policy
The Indian-produced generic, currently imported by MSF in limited quantities, cost only about one-tenth the cost of Pfizer’s drug. In early October, Health-e News broke the story of Andaleeb...
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Better data unearths more TB cases than previously thought
With pharmaceutical companies no longer interested in TB & infectious diseases, the pipeline for new TB drugs threatens to run dry TB remains one of the world’s deadliest communicable disease and...
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Policy: National Mental Health Policy Framework and Strategic Plan 2013-2020
In its introduction, the policy acknowledges that the country continues to face challenges in the provision of mental health services, including a high prevalence of mental disorders linked to social...
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Report: South African Health Review 2013-14
Released alongside the annual District Health Barometer, the South Africa Health Review begins by reviewing changes in health policy and legislation in the past year. The review notes that Parliament...
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Experts mull ways to fund, manage National Health Insurance
South Africa will have to boost public health spending to about five percent of its Gross Domestic Product To implement the NHI, South Africa will need to increase government spending on health to...
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Policy: National Complaints Management Protocol for the Public Health Sector...
According to the document’s introduction, the protocol aims at providing information to the public on how to complain within the public health sector and what to expect. It also provides guidance to...
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Report: National Department of Health Annual Report 2013-14
In his forward, Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi emphasizes the department’s efforts to bring South Africa’s stubbornly high maternal mortality rates down. He notes that HIV continues to account...
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Halfway between help and home
Like many men diagnosed with schizophrenia, Paul’s* illness first began to show itself in his early 20s when, in 2003, he began experiencing paranoid delusions and believed that people were plotting...
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Strategy: Draft National Strategic Plan for HIV Prevention, Care and...
The strategic plan outlines three main aims, mainly: Increase coverage and access to comprehensive HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STI) and TB prevention, treatment, care, support and related...
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SA doctor charts new course for WHO in Africa
Originally from KwaThema outside Johannesburg, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti went on to work for the Botswana Ministry of Health and several UN agencies before become the WHO’s Regional Director for Africa....
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Judgement: Constitutional Court sets certificate of need legislation aside
On 27 January 2015, the Constitutional Court handed down judgment in a direct application to declare invalid a proclamation of the President bringing certain sections of the National Health Act into...
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‘Rural-proofing’ policy launched
About 40 percent of South Africans live in rural areas, according to RHAP Speaking at the “Rural Proofing Guidelines” launch this week, Daygan Eager from the Rural Health Advocacy Project, said there...
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Guidelines: Rural-proofing for Health
The 52-page guidelines are designed to not only evaluate the appropriateness of policies but also ensure that they are effective and sustainable, and move to improve equity in healthcare services....
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Breast cancer advocates demand three-month supplies of treatment
About one in 35 South African women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetimes, according to the Cancer Association of South Africa In 2011, 53-year-old Nobuntu Rulashe from Soweto’s Snail...
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[Updated] Health-e News, Code4SA launch new medicines pricing app
Did you know medicine prices are regulated in South Africa? Use our app to avoid paying too much Created by the non-profit Code4SA, the new app uses the latest single exit prices for medicines to let...
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Anti-TAC march is condemned
The Civil Society Forum of the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC), the United Front, Social Justice Coalition (SJC), Equal Education and Ndifuna Ukwazi issued statements condemning the march,...
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Speech: Gauteng 2015 State of the Province Address
Delivered on 23 February 2014, Makhura’s State of the Province reviews Gauteng’s progress on areas such as tuberculosis (TB) and HIV, the re-engineering of primary health care as well as eHealth....
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Draft Regulation: Health facility norms and standards
The 51-page draft document outlines health facilities’ responsibilities in a variety of areas including respecting patient rights, facility upkeep and ensuring continuity of care. The norms and...
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Policy: Food and Nutrition Security for the Republic of South Africa
Among the policy’s stated goals are increasing food production and distribution, as well as supporting community-based and small holder production. Approved by Cabinet in late 2013, the 21-page...
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Op-ed: New food policy lacks meat without public consultation
The policy and plan fail to address the concentration of power in the food chain, and the distributional problems embedded in a food system that produces enough food but leaves a quarter of the...
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