Health

My five-hour wait for treatment at Mamelodi hospital

Gauteng Health MEC has said Mamelodi Regional Hospital meets National Health Insurance standards, but my experience was not good

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News | 6 March 2025

“We were told to stop everything immediately”: Lesotho HIV programmes collapse after USAID decision

Fear of a surge in new infections as antiretroviral medicines become harder to get

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News | 5 March 2025

Our HIV response will collapse without US funding - unless we act urgently

Reassurances that state clinics will pick up the lost services are empty

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Analysis | 4 March 2025

US-funded programmes in South Africa benefit the US too

The world class research conducted in SA is vital for everyone

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Opinion | 26 February 2025

Former tavern has served as a clinic for decades

Eastern Cape health department has no funds to build Tsomo a clinic

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Brief | 24 February 2025

US funding remains frozen for many life-saving services

Despite waivers, court judgments and assurances from the embassy, USAID funding for projects that provide HIV medication has not resumed

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News | 21 February 2025

Nearly five years and R38-million later, Mamelodi families still don’t have a clinic

The City of Tshwane fired the construction company last year

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Brief | 21 February 2025

Teenager hitchhiking to the nearest clinic delivers her stillborn baby on the roadside

Villagers in the Eastern Cape town where Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was born often wait six hours for an ambulance

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News | 18 February 2025

HIV patients go weeks without medicines after US aid cut

Legal challenges have restored funding but damage has been done

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News | 18 February 2025

Fraud flagged at the Compensation Fund

The Fund has been failing audits for 12 years and counting, Parliament told

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News | 17 February 2025

What to expect when you’re expecting during a climate crisis

Rising global temperatures pose a serious threat to health of pregnant women and babies, say Wits researchers

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News | 14 February 2025

Over 15,000 South African health workers’ jobs are at risk as US cuts aid

Some harm reduction and LGBTI services have already closed

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News | 11 February 2025

1,500 Lesotho health workers sent home after US aid suspended

Trump blocking aid threatens vital health services

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News | 10 February 2025

Trump has stopped aid to South Africa, endangering thousands of lives

But we must not allow peddlers of hate to undermine our fragile constitutional democracy

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Analysis | 8 February 2025

Go-slow at hospital after CEO was suspended

Brief suspension came after a letter in the name of CEO Mziyanda Tshaka circulated about an acute shortage of doctors at Tambo Regional Hospital

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Brief | 6 February 2025