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South Africa is violating its own Constitution, and international obligations when it comes to undocumented children.
Fixes for small pieces of massive problems show that overarching crises may be less hopeless than they appear.
The tale of an unsung South African hero in the field of community health.
For healthcare to be accessible, affordable and equal, policies and programmes that promote universal health coverage need to be based on evidence.
The high cost of cancer drugs in South Africa has come under the spotlight with an investigation by the Competition Commission in the country.
For many of the nation’s poor, food and shelter are more important than health care. Questions of insurance coverage loom broadly, but another question lingers: how to treat the poor we do not see.
Across the world many countries issue pregnancy grants to support mothers-to-be. South Africa has a progressive social security grant system, but it does not support this vulnerable group.
Are you part of the 86 percent of Americans who do not live in rural America? Here’s why Trump’s choice to lead the USDA matters to you.
The government has put a lot of effort into making health care in South Africa more accessible, but the quality of the service still lags behind.
Community health workers are finally being formally integrated into the health system – but they need support to make an impact.
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Associate Professor of Public Health, Texas A&M University
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University of Cape Town
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Physician, New York University
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Professor, School of Public Health, University of Gothenburg Sweden, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of the Western Cape
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Associate Professor at the Wits Reproductive Health & HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor Emeritusin the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director of the Drake Agricultural Law Center; Assistant Professor of Law, Drake University
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University Professor of Sociology, Syracuse University
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Deputy Director and Researcher at the Centre for Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor and Course Leader: Post Graduate Programmes in Clinical Pharmacy in the Department of Pharmacy, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University
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Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science, University of Kentucky
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Senior Lecturer in Bioethics, University of Otago
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Health systems researcher, University of Ghana
