The Board of Trustees of the Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS) is shocked and deeply saddened by the untimely passing of the Honourable Collins Chabane, Minister of Public Service and Administration. Read more>
The company that pioneered using rewards to encourage medical scheme members to lead healthier lives is now trying to persuade JSE-listed companies to invest more in their workers' health. Read more>
Financial services company Mergence wants to launch a large black-owned hospital group and is arranging funding to build a 200-400 bed private hospital in the next 18 months. Read more>
Last year, South African couples spent R324-million on fertility treatment. Read more>
A bill proposing that the UK allocate 0.7 percent of its gross domestic product to international aid has led to the usual criticism levelled against such aid: that it times of austerity, the country cannot afford to spend money helping others overseas let alone setting a mandatory amount. Read more>
It is common cause that the Department of Science and Technology's determined effort to launch a state-owned pharmaceutical company has its roots in a policy decision taken at the African National Conggress's national conference at Polokwane in 2007. Read more>
The 2015 Provincial Budgets and Expenditure Review revealed that at the end of 2013, only 4% of nurses were 30 years or younger in age while, in contrast, more than 45% of nurses are 50 years of age or older. Read more>
Over the past decade, South Africa has made significant progress in the prevention of HIV transmission from mother to child through widespread interventions and broadened accessibility to prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programmes. Read more>
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