Health
Health department must hand over Covid vaccine procurement documents
The Health Justice Initiative wants to assess the legality and cost-effectiveness of the pandemic rollout
Law | 17 August 2023
Court ruling means that pharmacists can prescribe to people with HIV
Specially trained pharmacists will be allowed to manage and prescribe medicine to patients with HIV and/or tuberculosis
Law | 15 August 2023
Health activists make over 12,000 submissions on draft food labelling regulations
The proposed warning labels will clearly indicate when food is high in sugar, salt and fat or contains artificial sweeteners, but the sugar industry has warned against “demonising sugar”
News | 31 July 2023
This vaccine at birth can save thousands of lives
Hepatitis B is a silent killer and one of the leading causes of liver cancer
By Daniel Steyn
News | 31 July 2023
Staff at Chatsworth hospital picket over poor working conditions
Staff shortages saw nurses having to work as cleaners and clerks
Brief | 13 July 2023
Teenagers march in Kariega for better sexual and reproductive health services
Partners in Sexual Health director says while government has made some progress, the challenge is in the implementation of its policies
Brief | 11 July 2023
Health workers protest at Lentegeur hospital
Unhappiness over payments and workers left jobless
By Vincent Lali
Brief | 29 June 2023
Kariega clinics closed after staff robbed at gunpoint
Eastern Cape health department says five incidents at different clinics have left staff and patients traumatised
Brief | 27 June 2023
Hundreds march to Gugulethu clinic demanding better service
Protesters want a new hospital to be built
News | 21 June 2023