Health in South Africa
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CANADA, 2017/08/20
As Africa tries to build up a listed real estate industry, healthcare real estate investment trust (REITs) become additional attractive on the continent.
They would formalise an industry with much potential, advises Ortneil Kutama, Africa Property News Media Director.
“REITs are well structured and provide investors with tax benefits and regular gain in theory as long as they make consistent profits,” Kutama said. Nations like South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Morocco and Nigeria, which have growing populations, improving hospitals and healthcare industries, could gain capital boost. If the hospitals in these nations were listed, investors could bring that major capital boost.
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BOTSWANA, 2017/07/29
The World Health Organisation (WHO), has commended the African region for making significant evolution in malaria control in the last five years.
Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO Regional Director for Africa, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, said malaria incidence and mortality rates had declined by 42 % and 66 % respectively between 2000 and 2015.
Moeti made the commendation in Kigali, Rwanda, while speaking at the Initial Africa Health Forum, launched by WHO, Africa and the Government of Rwanda.
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BOTSWANA, 2017/07/16
You can meet the majority interesting people at conferences. If you can make your way through the sea of people to get to them. The initial Africa Health Forum organised by the World Health Organisation African region was no different - hundreds and hundreds of enthusiastic participants filling the Kigali Convention Centre in Rwanda, determined to find their way to universal healthcare (UHC) on the continent.
The forum promised to examine WHO AFRO's vision for health and development across the continent, explore concrete ways for partners to contribute to the work of the organization, meet the challenges that young people face, and provide a platform to talk about innovative strategies for the public health challenges that Africa just can't seem to shake.
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SOUTH AFRICA, 2016/07/23
Each Sunday the long, ebony cars rolled in. “For some reason our children tended to die over weekends,” recalls Sister Kethiwe Dube, a worker at the Cotlands children’s Aids hospice in Turffontein, Johannesburg.
In 2002, deaths at the 70-bed hospice were at a peak: 87 infants passed away – an average of additional than seven a month. So a lot of succumbed to Aids between 1996 and 2003 that three memorial walls were created for them in Westpark, one of Johannesburg’s major cemeteries.
“You’d take those children as your own and learn to love them, but you at no time knew if they’d be there the next day,” Dube says. “It made me so anxious. It still does.”
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BOTSWANA, 2016/07/20
The United Nations Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has disclosed that despite successes chalked in the fight against Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a lot additional needed to be done particularly in Africa.
UNICEF’s Executive Director, Anthony Lake, revealed that adolescents were generally dying of AIDS at an alarming rate and that the disease remained the leading cause of death in Africa.
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CHINA, 2015/12/08
Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, attended an anti-AIDS advocacy activity here on Saturday, pledging to support Africa's medical and health programs.
Peng was here accompanying President Xi for the Johannesburg Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation.
China will consistently support the African nations in fighting AIDS, support the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Program on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) on AIDS prevention and control in Africa, and support Africa's programs on medical infrastructure inclunding women's and children's healthcare, said Peng.
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BOTSWANA, 2015/09/22
Malaria death rates have plunged by 60 % since 2000, but the ancient killer remains an acute public health problem with 15 nations mainly in sub-Saharan Africa accounting for some 80 % of cases and deaths globally, according to a new United Nations statement released today.
“World malaria control is one of the great public health success stories of the completed 15 years,” said Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the UN World Health Organization (WHO). “It’s a sign that our strategies are on target, and that we can beat this ancient killer, which still claims hundreds of thousands of lives, mostly children, each year.”
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SOUTH AFRICA, 2015/09/13
The World Fund has committed approximately $7 million of the $15 million budget for its Community Rights and Gender (CRG) Appropriate Initiative. Each of the initiative's three arms - technical assistance (TA) provision, key populations network strengthening, and regional communication and coordination platforms - have received relatively equal amounts.
The initiative runs until the end of 2016.
On the TA arm, 40 applicants for technical assistance, spanning 22 nations, have received nearly $2 million in funding. Thirty-four TA providers have been identified and 65 TA requests have been received to date. This is one example of the evolution made since Aidspan last reported on the initiative.
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SOUTH AFRICA, 2015/07/18
Activists have alleged that only five civil society organisations were invited to today's public consultation on government's new food policy.
This comes just weeks next additional than 20 organisations and individuals called on government to hold nationwide public consultations on its new policy to curb hunger.
In August, government gazetted its new plan to address hunger and food insecurity. At the time, government noted policymakers were in the advanced stages of drafting an accompany implementation plan set to begin last month.
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BOTSWANA, 2015/07/18
An increasing number of children are receiving life-saving vaccinations around the world, according to the new data released by two United Nations agencies.
In a press release issued before today, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) confirmed that the number of nations reaching and sustaining 90 % vaccination coverage for their children with the required three doses of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis containing vaccines (DTP3) had doubled since 2000.
In 2000, 21 million children did not receive even a initial dose of DTP, a figure that has presently dropped to 12 million, the WHO and UNICEF said.
