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South African Health Promotion Policy & Strategy 2015-19
Click here to download the SA Health Promotion Policy & Strategy 2015-19 (HPP&S 15-19) 46 pages. Date of publication: unknown Purposes 1.To enable South African to increase control over and improve its […]
CANSA CEO Wins Big
Elize Joubert CEO of CANSA has won big in the 2015 Africa’s Most Influential Women (MIW) in Business & Government Awards in the category ‘Welfare and Civil Society Organisations’. Taking […]
New head of the Gauteng Department of Health appointed
Dr Barney Selebano has been appointed as the new head of the Gauteng Department of Health by Gauteng Premier David Makhura. Dr Selebano holds a BSC Honours in biochemistry from […]
NGOs join the fight to fix the medicine patent laws
Today, patient groups and other leading health organisations in South Africa have joined the Fix the Patent Laws campaign to push for reform of the country’s current patent laws that […]
NGOs join the fight to fix the medicine patent laws
Today, patient groups and other leading health organisations in South Africa have joined the Fix the Patent Laws campaign to push for reform of the country’s current patent laws that […]
WHO: NCDs progress monitor (2015)
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each year, 16 million people die prematurely before the age of 70 from NCDs. Strikingly, 4 out of 5 of these deaths occur in developing countries, making such diseases one of the major development challenges of the 21st century. If...
WHO: Injection safety guidelines
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Injections are one of the most common health care procedures. Every year at least 16 billion injections are administered worldwide. The vast majority – around 90% – are given in curative care. Immunization injections account for...
Global Coordination Mechanism On The Prevention And Control Of NCDS
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It has been two years since the Director-General of WHO established a Secretariat within the office of the Assistant Director-General for Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health to support the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on...
Global Coordination Mechanism On The Prevention And Control Of NCDS
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It has been two years since the Director-General of WHO established a Secretariat within the office of the Assistant Director-General for Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health to support the WHO Global Coordination Mechanism on...
Citizen-accountability for health – transparency
Until a woman from the poorest family in the most crowded slum can be sure that her local clinic will have the medicine and staffing her government has promised, global […]