A facility in South Africa is building capacity to allow for next generation sequencing (NGS), a technology touted by the World Health Organization (WHO) as being critical to the future of healthcare
- To date, national statistics are only rarely disaggregated by disability status. Often, the little data we find on disability focuses only on disability prevalence. Lack of data and data analysis has contributed to persons with disabilities’ being often invisible in human rights and development policy debates
- The South African Medical Research Council’s Forgotten Agenda study team member, Dr Jacques Lloyd has won the Discovery Health Clinical Excellence Award for Track 6: Policy, Finance and Ethics at the 11th SA AIDS Conference 2023 held at the ICC in Durban
- The 11th SA AIDS Conference took place from 20-23 June at the Durban International Convention Centre under the theme of Act, Connect and End the Epidemic. As a key stakeholder in the fight against HIV/AIDS, the SAMRC was well represented at this three-day conference, calling for action and reigniting the fight against HIV/AIDS
- Critical health reforms overdue to improve healthcare now, provide essential building blocks for NHIFollowing deliberation on the public input on the National Health Insurance Bill, the Portfolio Committee on Health approved a list of amendments to the bill which was passed by the National Assembly on 13 June 2023. This article looks at the implications of the PCH decisions, and some possible courses of action.