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Rationale South Africa has a quadruple burden of disease and failing health systems. This has created a health crisis that continues to worsen. As a response, the Department of Health has proposed a 10-point plan to transform the health system, ...

On 5 and 6 July, the People’s Health Movement is hosting the South African National Health Assembly (NHA) in alliance with the National Health Insurance Coalition (NHI). With a quadruple health burden and failing health systems there is a health ...

The Third People’s Health Assembly (PHA-3) will take place at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, from 6 – July 2012. It will bring together health activists, civil society, academics, communities, health professionals, social networks and ...

‘It’s a much straighter shot from section 27 to the NHI than it is from the commerce clause to Obamacare’ THE US recently made an attempt at nationalised health insurance. It had an amazing opportunity — but it missed the ...

The recent release of the Green Paper on National Health Insurance (NHI) has rekindled the heated debate around reforming South Africa’s health system. After the abhorrence of over a decade of denialism and neglect in the public health sector, it ...

OPINION: Misinformed scaremongering seems to have been the order of the day since the release of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Green Paper. South Africans have been subjected to a barrage of reports about how the proposed NHI is unaffordable, ...

South Africa has formally opened discussion and debate on the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) plan, the primary goal of which is to “ensure that everyone has access to a defined comprehensive package of healthcare services.”(2) This plan is one ...

Combinations of poverty, racial and social inequalityand a history of neoliberal policy decisions have contributed to the poor state of the health system in South Africa. For a country that boasts the highest GDP on the continent, we have very ...