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US Funding Cuts Highlight Fragile Global Health System

1 week ago | health-e.org.za | Kaymarlin Govender |Yoliswa Sobuwa |Montsho Matlala

by Kaymarlin Govender, Annamarie Bindenagel Šehović and Damian Naidoo On January 20, 2025, U.S. President Trump’s second inauguration unleashed a dramatic global health and development policy shift. Key executive orders included dismantling USAID and withdrawal from the WHO, alongside a broader review of U.S. participation in international organisations and funding for UN agencies like UNESCO, UNHRC, and UNRWA.
Child Rape Survivors And Their Families Struggle To Get Support

2 weeks ago | health-e.org.za | Yoliswa Sobuwa

Rape is the most common crime committed against children in the country, yet few will see justice. According to Statistics South Africa’s reports on crimes against children, rape accounted for 38.3% of all crimes against children in the 2022/2023 financial year. Only a fraction of cases were enrolled for trial by the National Prosecuting Authority.
R600m Gauteng Forensic Pathology Building Abandoned Mid-Construction

2 weeks ago | health-e.org.za | Yoliswa Sobuwa

The Gauteng health department has spent R600 million on constructing a forensic pathology building that would be the largest of its kind in the province. The construction of the Johannesburg Forensic Pathology building, adjacent to the Helen Joseph Hospital, started on 3 November 2016 and was supposed to be completed in 2019. But the building was ditched, mid-construction, in 2017 because the contractors weren’t paid.
March 13, 2025

1 month ago | health-e.org.za | Thembi Siaga |Yoliswa Sobuwa

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March 11, 2025

1 month ago | health-e.org.za | Yoliswa Sobuwa

One of Johannesburg’s oldest hospitals, Helen Joseph, is in disarray. Lack of security, non-payment of food service providers, dirty linen piling up in the corridors, decaying infrastructure and poor governance and leadership are just some of the challenges highlighted in…
Patients sent home over computers not working at clinic in Botshabelo

1 month ago | health-e.org.za | Molefi Sompane |Montsho Matlala |Yoliswa Sobuwa

Patients in Botshabelo in the Free State say they’ve been denied healthcare by staff at Potlako Motlohi clinic. Since mid-February clinic staff have been telling them that they cannot be helped due to the data-capturing computer system being offline. Tshokolo Sanda says on Thursday 20 February, he and other patients spent more than eight hours at the facility before being turned away.
US funding cut a ‘much needed wake-up call’

1 month ago | health-e.org.za | Kathryn Cleary |Molefi Sompane |Montsho Matlala |Yoliswa Sobuwa

The abrupt halt of PEPFAR (the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) funding to South Africa threatens the country’s fight against HIV, putting thousands of healthcare workers’ jobs at risk and disrupting treatment for millions of patients. With 7.8 million people living with HIV, South Africa now faces a funding shortfall of around R8 billion that could upend progress made in reducing infections and deaths.
Healthcare coalition says government’s approach to fixing health costs is flawed

1 month ago | health-e.org.za | Yoliswa Sobuwa |Kathryn Cleary |Molefi Sompane |Montsho Matlala

The Universal Health Care Access Coalition (UHAC), an affiliation of health professionals, founders, and advocacy groups, argues that the government’s focus on pricing alone will not reduce the high cost of private healthcare. The coalition was responding to the government’s announcement last week of measures being adopted to implement recommendations made by the Health Market Inquiry to address the high prices in the sector.
March 6, 2025

1 month ago | health-e.org.za | Yoliswa Sobuwa

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Free State community protesting water shortages shuts down Parys

1 month ago | health-e.org.za | Molefi Sompane |Kathryn Cleary |Montsho Matlala |Yoliswa Sobuwa

Tensions are high in Parys in the Free State, where frustrated residents of Tumahole township have shut the town down in a protest for clean running water, which residents say they haven’t had in eight months. According to community member Tshepo Naale, the problems in Parys started in June of 2022 and continued into 2023 when the first shutdown happened.