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Healthcare sector stakeholders have long advocated for a single regulator, believing that the current dual framework creates a regulatory arbitrage not conducive to offering the consumer maximum protection... read
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Current medical aid models for end-of-life care will pay for costly in-hospital care but won't pay for home-based care...read
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BOB MASH
By some measures - healthy life expectancy, obesity and depression, among others - South Africa is the unhealthiest country on earth. That's a sobering fact to consider. How has the country got here?read
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Medical Technology
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What if a mobile phone could prevent a health epidemic? It may sound like science fiction, but the WHO polio geographic information system (GIS) technology is doing just that in 43 countries in Africa. Read
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Obstetrics & Gynaecology
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ANNE COCKCROFT & NEIL ANDERSSON
Nigerian women are at high risk of death related to pregnancy and child birth. Accurate figures are hard to come by, but the WHO estimates there are more than 800 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births in Nigeria... Read
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Ophthalmology
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Research into a common eye condition in East Africa which causes irreversible vision loss is receiving vital funding from the eye research charity Fight for Sight, in partnership with The Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth)... Read
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Public Health
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KIMBERLY MUTANDIRO & KRISTINE LIAO
Rural communities in South Africa, which make up 40% of the population, face immense difficulties in accessing adequate healthcare... Read
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KERRIGAN MCCARTHY & LUCILLE BLUMBERG
People in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe have started trying to rebuild their lives after the devastation wrought by Cyclone Idai... Read
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Sports Science
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In the four years since the decolonisation debate took centre stage at South African universities, much of the focus has been on what decolonisation might look like in the humanities... Read
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Women's Health
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KEVIN POLLOCK
Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer among women in the UK under the age of 35 after breast and skin cancer. Read
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African Development Bank Board approves $4.8 million grant to accelerate African free trade... Read
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ISSUED BY DOTAFRICA
The adoption continues for the .africa (dotAfrica) geographic Top Level Domain (gLTD) as Africa's biggest multi-industry website, Bizcommunity, announced the launch of its dotAfrica website... Read
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