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World Aids day report 2011
1 December 2011
We are on the verge of a significant breakthrough in the AIDS response. The vision of a world with zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination, and zero AIDS-related deaths has captured the imagination of diverse partners, stakeholders and people living with and affected by HIV. Read the full report. Read full story
Doctor brain drain costs Africa $2 billion
28 November 2011
Sub-Saharan African countries that invest in training doctors have ended up losing $2 billion as the expert clinicians leave home to find work in more prosperous developed nations, researchers said on Friday... Read full story
Thought leader: Can one size fit all? Family medicine training and rural healthcare (Prof. Ian Couper)
28 November 2011
In September 2003, the Medical and Dental Professions Board of the Health Professions Council took the decision regarding the future of family medicine in South Africa that, inter alia, “rural medicine should be seen as a specific discipline within the domain of family medicine, and comply with regulations developed for family medicine.” Therefore, rural medicine is seen to be part of family medicine. What are the implications of this view? Read full story
Reforming healthcare in South Africa: what role for the private sector?
21 November 2011
South Africa faces a healthcare crisis consisting of a badly designed and managed public sector, and a private sector which serves its customers well, but at prices which only a small minority can afford. How can this be fixed? Read full story
