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WEBGroundUp publishes original public interest news. We mainly cover education, health, sanitation, immigration and human rights stories.

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Our health in brief

WEBArchive photo: Ashraf Hendricks. This is the fourth and final brief in a series on health expenditure in the public and private sectors. It is a simpler, edited version of …

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Our health in brief

WEBThe main findings are: Aggregate expenditure on health is estimated at R462 billion in 2019, representing 9.0% of gross domestic product in that year. Of this …

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Treating Covid: What works

WEBWhat the near-future holds - two exciting drugs. There has been exciting news the past couple of weeks. Pfizer announced the results of a clinical trial that …

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Topic: Health GroundUp

WEBGroundUp publishes original public interest news. We mainly cover education, health, sanitation, immigration and human rights stories.

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How the Wild Coast is denied access to basic healthcare

WEBHow the Wild Coast is denied access to basic healthcare. Eastern Cape Health Department’s neglect makes life difficult for this idyllic area. 31 August 2016 | By …

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Our health in brief

WEBThe main findings are: Aggregate expenditure on health is estimated at R462 billion in 2019, representing 9.0% of gross domestic product in that year. Of this total, 48.7% was …

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Little action from government to help older people live healthier

WEBMore than two years into the United Nations Decade of Healthy Ageing, the South African government has yet to finalise its action plan on how to help older people …

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About GroundUp GroundUp

WEBGroundUp publishes news that matters. South Africa’s Constitution gives people the rights to housing, education, health, safety, a decent environment, justice, food and dignity. …

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Why independent healthcare inside prisons is vital GroundUp

WEBThe Act provides that segregation “must be discontinued” if medical practitioners determine that “it poses a threat to the health of the inmate”. Further, …

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It’s hard to get a disability grant if you have a mental illness

WEBThe problem with mental illness is that a lot of our colleagues tend to be working in an overcrowded community clinic, mostly seeing people with diabetes, HIV …

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“Too poor to be treated”: Gugulethu residents demand better …

WEBAbout 200 Gugulethu residents marched to the township’s Community Health Centre, the Dental Clinic and the police station on Wednesday, demanding better health …

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Funders of African health research are excluding Africans, say

WEBA group of African scientists are calling on the funders of Africa-focussed health interventions to change their approach, and make sure that African scientists are …

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Pensioners have to pay people to queue for them at Nyanga clinic

WEBBukelwa Gabuza, 79, says she has lived in Mau-Mau, Nyanga, since 1981. She is being treated for arthritis, ulcers and eczema, and she uses a cane to walk. …

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New clinics built near Pretoria but years later they are still not …

WEBConstruction of the New Boikhutsong Clinic in Soshanguve started in May 2017. It is still not open. Photos: Mosima Rafapa. The old but still used clinic in …

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Dire conditions in Eastern Cape clinics made worse by pandemic

WEBThe Eastern Cape has been the province hardest hit by Covid-19 so far. The latest Medical Research Council mortality report estimates over 8,400 deaths more than …

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Almost a third of Limpopo residents have no access to piped water

WEBThe provincial department of cooperative governance, human settlement and traditional affairs (CoGHSTA) says almost a third of Limpopo’s population do not have …

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Clinic struggles with new workload in aftermath of fire GroundUp

WEBResidents who have to attend Nomzamo Day Care Centre after the Ikhwezi clinic, the biggest clinic in the Nomzamo area of Strand, was gutted by fire last month …

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