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Libya’s southwestern tip in the Sahara bordering Algeria and Niger has turned into an open door for migrants and refugees from sub-Saharan countries heading for Europe.

Africa’s forgotten colony in the Sahara

Rich in resources but largely unrecognised, those in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic eke out a livelihood under harsh conditions.

Up to one in five people can get long COVID — a condition in which someone keeps on feeling ill for months after their initial symptoms have cleared up. (Paul Botes)

The Covid pandemic has exacerbated weaknesses in health systems, particularly in poor countries

Strategic investments in health care for all are needed to ensure safe births, treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, measles, pneumonia and diarrhoea, and children are vaccinated

Free way: People in Gauteng, led by nonprofit Outa, united against the South African National Roads Agency’s e-toll system. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Africans flock, rather than take flight

Most people’s response is to flee or fight when faced with a problem, particularly an ongoing one, but in Southern Africa they work together

(Ryan Gray/Reuters)

Include indigenous knowledge and cultures in the curriculum to improve health

A recent study revealed that indigenous people see the introduction of formal education as having brought ill-health

The provincial education department has delayed handing over tender documents to the SIU since February Photo: Supplied

Pairing learning with food is a winning recipe

Much more support of homemade nutrition programmes is needed to ensure gaps are filled

Honesty, respect, responsibility, fairness and compassion will carry humanity through any crisis. (Paul Joseph Brown/VillageReach)

Sharing best practice key to healthy results solutions

Healthcare workers from across Africa are working together to find last-mile solutions

Junior doctors across provinces report fear of victimisation which breeds a culture of silence. (File photo)

How did an otherwise healthy man with a broken leg end up dead in a hospital ceiling?

The bizarre case from Durban is at least the second such case nationally in the last three years.

Ccommunity health workers could play a significant role in turning the tide on stunting in South Africa if adequately supported with resources, training, coaching, mentoring and dignified employment conditions they need to do their work optimally.

The workforce that makes our health system work

Community health workers need to be supported so that policies can be tangibly effective

‘Despite spending 17% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on health, 30-million Americans are without health insurance, and many more are underinsured and don’t use the services they need because of high copayments,’ writes Ban Ki-Moon

Public finance is key to delivering the human right to health

Across all countries and societies, access to health and healthcare services ought to be top priority

Dr Ramneek Ahluwalia, Beauty Muthelwana, Beatrice Mutali, Mahlubi Mabizela, Anne Githuku-Shongwe and Thabo Rapoo at the Critical Thinking Forum. (Photos: Musa Rapuleng)

The goal is to end GBV in its entirety!

We need to reach out to all community stakeholders and use the influence of the community leaders to change perceptions around gender-based violence

By working together, those involved in the medicines regulatory systems strengthening work on the continent will benefit those who need it most

​AMRH Partnership Platform – Advancing medicines regulatory outcomes in Africa

This initiative will harmonise the different interventions for maximum impact

Bongeka Zuma wants to redress injustice in the health system. (Graphic: John McCann)

Bongeka Zuma

Student, Stanford University

Malegapuru William Makgoba’s scathing investigation helped blow the lid of the Life Esidimeni tragedy. Read what it taught him. (Delwyn Verasamy, Mail & Guardian)

This man blew the lid off the #LifeEsidimeni tragedy. Read what it taught him.

When we got our independence, we did not ask ourselves what kind of ethics this new country needed. SA’s health ombud reflects on his first big case.

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi. Photo: File

Think you’re going to opt out of the #NHI when it comes? Think again.

In June, the health minister released the long-awaited National Health Insurance Bill. What does it mean to you and your medical aid? We tell you.

Professor Resia Pretorius is the recipient of the TW Kambule-NSTF Award: Researcher through research and its outputs by an individual.

It’s in the blood

TW Kambule-NSTF Award: Researcher through research and its outputs by an individual

Professor Steve Tollman

Research to improve rural community health

Management Award: contribution through management and related SET and innovation activities by an individual

Patients were turned away from major hospitals this week after the nurses began their industrial action

Zimbabwe sacks thousands of striking nurses

In a hardline response to growing labour arrest by the country’s new leadership, all nurses who were on strike have been fired

Staff shortages are pushing Limpopo doctors to exceed contracted overtime hours
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Can government employees kiss those above-inflation increases goodbye?

Picketing doctors and nurses in Limpopo could be just a taste of what’s to come as unions and government prepare to head to the bargaining table.

Health ombudsman Malegapuru William Makgoba says that primary health services must be strengthened

Malegapuru William Makgoba: Primary health services must be strengthened

Health ombudsman Malegapuru William Makgoba says that primary health services must be strengthened

Is it possible then that they underestimate women’s pain as a result of this “attractiveness” bias?

Mind the gender pain gap

Entrenched sexist views on pain prevent many women from accessing quality healthcare