Although the NHI offers much-needed reform, it must find a new way to care for patients – an approach that treats people ...

The health crisis has spilled into South Africa’s universities and research hubs. Institutions that once hosted major NIH- ...

Section 27(1)(a) of the South African Constitution states that everyone has the right to have access to healthcare services, including reproductive health care.

Experts say cancer patients in the public sector in South Africa are dying for avoidable reasons like dysfunctional referral systems and a lack of medical imaging and treatment. We look at efforts to ...

South Africa’s healthcare system suffers from widespread problems in its governance. A number of indicators point to this dysfunction. These include the large number of managers in acting ...

This is unacceptable in a country with one of the largest HIV treatment programmes in the world,"- Treatment Action Campaign's Xabisa Qwabe ...

McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm, analyzed the impact of digital health tools in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa and found that the tools could reduce the continent’s ...

For the past 30 years — ever since South Africa’s break with the former racist system of apartheid — the train has carried doctors, nurses and optometrists on an annual journey that touches even the ...

As clouds gather and humidity rises across west Africa, whose annual rains bring an uptick of deadly, malaria-carrying mosquitoes, Musa Adamu Ibrahim, a nurse, is sitting at home, unemployed.