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    Mumps outbreak: Schools in Free State affected

    The mumps outbreak is affecting schooling in Botshabelo in the Free State, with at least 100 children testing positive. The Limpopo Health Department...

    Mumps Outbreak: A first in over two decades.

    South Africa is in the midst of a mumps outbreak for the first time in over two decades, with over 1322 positive cases...

    Healthcare workers: “We are humans”

    By Hannah Zhihan Jiang Healthcare workers (HCWs) say targeted programmes to destigmatise mental illnesses and support mental health among HCWs after the COVID-19 pandemic...

    INTERNATIONAL NURSES DAY: LITTLE TO CELEBRATE

    This International Nurses Day is bittersweet for many nurses working in South Africa’s public healthcare system. With the devastating shortage of nurses, ongoing...

    Influenza: Everything you need to know this winter

    In 2022, there was a resurgence of influenza activity, following the Covid-19 pandemic. Currently, the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD)  is unable...

    Spike in malaria cases – Health-e News

    South Africa is experiencing a rise in malaria cases in the endemic provinces and Gauteng. The National Institute of Communicable Diseases says there...

    Covid-19: It’s like the flu, we have to live with it

    Disease experts warn it is critically important that South Africans get their Covid-19 vaccines, especially immunocompromised people. This comes after the World Health...

    SA healthcare system: More preventative approach encouraged 

    The ongoing struggles in South Africa’s public healthcare system, including staff shortages, poor infrastructure and surgery backlogs, came under the spotlight on Tuesday...

    Health budget allocation down R4.4-billion 

    The 2023/24 budget allocation for the National Department of Health has declined by   R4,4bn from R64.5bn in 22/23 to R60.1 billion in...

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