Category: News
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DFID Call for Applications: Tackling Deadly Diseases in Africa Programme
Gates Foundation & partners – Grand Challenges funding for African innovators
25 November: International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and 16 Days
SA’s NHI pilot programme is failing
Shanghai Declaration on Promoting Health
Unveiling the Burden of Dengue in Africa
How South Africa can beat its sugar-fuelled diabetes epidemic
Office of Health Standards Compliance still not up to scratch after 5 years: DA
Too poor to care? The call for a minimum wage has exposed a sick system
Who’ll deliver all our babies?
ADRIAN GORE: Focusing on the negative blinds us to SA’s gifts
National Health Act is holding back development of SA’s healthcare
JOHANN SERFONTEIN: NHI will live or die on the competence of managers in public healthcare
Free education and healthcare for poor, same side of the coin
DA has a plan to fix healthcare shortfalls
EXCLUSIVE: NHI pilot projects fail to reach targets
Hotline for patients to expose poor treatment and shoddy hospitals, clinics
How BEE gives sweet riches to an inner hive
#WoncaAfrica 21 November 2016
‘No will to drive NHI in SA’
Fed-up NHI doctors say they are nothing more than glorified nurses
Call for Applications: Alan Magill Fellowship 2017
BMJ: New models of working risk throwing the baby out with the bathwater
Clubfoot training in Africa
Can illiterate women in conflict areas be qualitative researchers? Yes, they can!
Euthanasia South Africa – How would health professionals in Nigeria react if the judiciary ever ruled in favour of it?
Telemedicine in Low-Resource Settings
Meeting the Need, Fulfilling the Promise: Youth and Longacting Reversible Contraceptives
Looking back on the Cochrane Colloquium, Seoul, South Korea
How can research be made more accessible in LMICs? (10) AJPP & AJOL
Healthcare information on YouTube: A systematic review
Key Role of Drug Shops and Pharmacies for Family Planning in Urban Nigeria and Kenya
The use of specialty training to retain doctors in Malawi: A discrete choice experiment
WONCA E-Update Friday 18th November 2016
Global monitoring system for action on the social determinants of health (SDH) – web-based consultation (WHO)
2016 Symposium Stop Double Standards: From Prevention through Cure to ZERO TB
Webinar: The Health Workforce, with Tana Wuliji, Technical Officer for Health Workforce, WHO
Exposure Patterns Driving Ebola Transmission in West Africa: A Retrospective Observational Study
Overflowing cities: The State of the World’s Toilets 2016
Enhancing emergency care in low-income countries using mobile technology-based training tools
Lancet Global Health: Breast cancer in Africa
CCP presentation at Jhb District Research Conference
#WoncaAfrica 14 November 2016
Turning diamonds’ defects into long-term 3-D data storage
Trump’s isolationism: Threats and opportunities for Africa
6 killed in Gauteng flood horror
Donald Trump’s foreign policy on Africa is likely to be: ‘Where’s that?’
BBC: Self-care could cut need for millions of GP visits
Systematic review and metanalysis. Online Course on Coursera
John Hopkins CCP & World Animation Day (28 October)
CABI tackles global health with its first open access book – Global Health Research in an Unequal World: Ethics case studies from Africa
“Almost Half Of Medical Trials Are Never Published And It’s Hurting Patients”
New AIDSFree PMTCT Technical Brief
Upgrading Community Healthcare Providers knowledge in family planning, care and basic life saving know-how is imperative
UHC Day 2016: Let’s Get Started!
“Dr. Moosa: No queues, no fuss, bringing healthcare to your door” Health24
Behind the Headlines: Your guide to the science that makes the news
Privilege and inclusivity in shaping Global Health agendas
Impact of interventions and the incidence of Ebola virus disease in Liberia
Health Policy & Planning: Perceptions on diabetes care provision among health providers in rural Tanzania: a qualitative study
Guardian: 11 health innovations to drastically cut maternal and child mortality rates
Navigating institutional complexity in the health sector: lessons from tobacco control in Kenya
WHO Bulletin: Research on community-based health workers
Announcing the African Citation Index
#WoncaAfrica 31 October 2016
Julia Belluz: This is why you shouldn’t believe that exciting new medical study
The Lancet: Quality of maternal health care
Medical Aid Films – New film about a unique piece of kit to prevent bleeding after birth
New High-Impact Practice Brief: Community Group Engagement – Changing Norms to Improve Sexual and Reproductive Healt
Call for papers: The Role of Digital Health to Support the Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Launch of Medical Wikipedia in 9th language – Odia (India)
WHO: Planning and implementation of palliative care services: a guide for programme managers
Its Prof Shabir Moosa now!
Health is Primary
The United States and Cuba — Turning Enemies into Partners for Health
Free EdX Course: eHealth – Opportunities and Challenges
#WoncaAfrica 17 October 2016
Video: Mini-Laparotomy for Tubal Ligation under Local Anesthesia
Launch of the new WHO Framework on integrated people-centred health services (who.int) website
#WoncaAfrica 10 October 2016
Free tertiary education needs funding from public sources: KPMG
Super-size South Africa: the role of the supermarket
Grannies walk for fun – and good health
Thuli Madonsela saved the ANC from itself – Mantashe
Wits postpones general assembly after talks with protesters fail
African network expands translation of research into policy and practice
Improving the healthcare system through a collaborative effort
#WoncaAfrica 03 October 2016
‘Regeneration should be for all’: will change in Johannesburg benefit its poorest residents?
“Years of dental neglect have caused my teeth to fall out”
Nyaope’s deadly grip on Orange Farm
Youth unemployment: A foot in the door
#WoncaAfrica 26 September 2016
Five billion human minds about to come online
This invention by a British student could save millions of lives across the world
Wikipaedia medical app on Android in Portugese
#WoncaAfrica 19 September 2016
