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Setback for state’s AIDS drugs plan as investor pulls out

Government’s plans for a state-owned pharmaceutical company that will manufacture key ingredients for AIDS drugs delayed as Swiss investor pulls out

Pharmacies get tough on codeine abuse

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2 day(s) ago

Retail pharmacy sector poised to exercise stricter control over sales of medicines containing codeine

New Discovery body to research lifestyle diseases

1 day(s) ago

Discovery launches institute to conduct scientific research into lifestyle-related disease

Firms are ‘ill prepared’ for malaria risks on the continent

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4 day(s) ago

Employers undertaking business in Africa often struggle with the scope of their malaria programmes , writes Colleen Goko

Gauteng hospitals to get waste-generated backup power supply

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9 day(s) ago

Province, Industrial Development Corporation mapping state hospitals’ proximity to landfill sites, as part of plan to ensure cancelled surgeries are a thing of the past

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi addresses the media at a briefing ahead of his budget speech on Wednesday. Picture: TREVOR SAMSON

Health insurance plan, price regulation soon, says minister

White paper on National Health Insurance to go hand in hand price regulation of private healthcare industry, says health minister

Motsoaledi urges medical schemes to pay for cancer vaccines

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi at the launch of the antiretroviral single pill at the Phidisong Clinic in Pretoria on Monday. Picture: GCIS
9 day(s) ago

Minister says the government will begin providing cervical cancer vaccines to girls from poor families attending state schools from February, and calls on funders to help

NHI white paper out soon, says Motsoaledi

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10 day(s) ago

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi warns National Health Insurance will go hand-in-hand with price regulation of private healthcare sector

Plan to add cervical cancer jab to child immunisation

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15 day(s) ago

Department of Health expects to issue a tender calling for bids from companies within the next two months

‘Record low price’ paid for vaccines to protect against cervical cancer

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16 day(s) ago

Global Access to Vaccines Initiative hails deal on HPV vaccines for poor countries but Médecins Sans Frontières says price still too high

Champagne puts fizz into cancer research

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17 day(s) ago

Scientists from the University of the Free State find these bubbles compress and deform life-giving cell organs, and they plan to assess the effect of this on cell function

DA in Western Cape ‘proud of successful NHI pilot site’

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16 day(s) ago

Western Cape government warms up to National Health Insurance plan

Playing catch-up to immunise kids against polio and measles

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22 day(s) ago

the Department of Health has launched a catch-up campaign in an effort to ensure all children under five are protected against measles and polio

Call for all clinical trial results to be made known

18 day(s) ago

South Africans participating in clinical trials should demand that results are published, says Cochrane Collaboration founder Sir Iain Chalmers

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