In the media

• Health-e News: Ethical victory in healthcare for all

  I am visiting the University of Cape Town from Australia – this is the fourth consecutive year I have come to this physically beautiful city – and I see in the media recently all sorts of comments on the proposed NHI. These comments are all almost hostile. But then these comments do not come from [...]

  Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

• Health-e News: Can South Africa afford not to have a NHI?

  Misinformed scaremongering seems to have been the order of the day since the release of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Green Paper. South Africans have been subjected to a barrage of reports about how the proposed NHI is unaffordable, how it will increase the cost of labour and will push the economy into recession…Read more [...]

  Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

• Blending faith and health to improve wellbeing

  During a four-day launch, the School of Public Health & Family Medicine (SOPH) welcomed a new partnership with the African Religious Health Assets Programme (ARHAP) – to be known as the International Religious Health Assets Programme (IRHAP). This research network works at the interface of religion and public health, to promote sustainable health among poor [...]

  Friday, March 25th, 2011

• Health-e news: Healthcare is a moral obligation

  Healthcare is a moral obligation, October 2010 The surprise release of the ANC’s discussion document on the proposed National Health Insurance scheme has again opened up the deep and disturbing economic divisions that persist in South Africa…HEALTH-E NEWS SERVICE

  Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

• Media coverage of latest findings about a universal health system for SA

  Findings from the SHIELD project (the Strategies for Health Insurance for Equity in Less Developed Countries) were recently released: Report – Resource requirements of alternative health care financing reforms in South Africa. Policy brief (1) – What resources do we need for a universal health system in South Africa and what are the design implications? [...]

  Wednesday, October 13th, 2010

• NHI to be implemented in 2012

  The ANC has decided to go ahead with the National Health Insurance with compulsory membership for everyone due to start in 2012 . Radio 702 interviewed HEU’s Prof Di McIntyre: http://www.gate5.co.za/Broadcast/tempfolder/3045044.mp3. See latest Mail & Guardian report. And tune into Radio 2000 tomorrow (23 September 2010) for a 7.25am interview with Prof McIntyre.

  Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

• Mail & Guardian: NHI will cost same as current healthcare

  The latest research from the University of Cape Town’s health economics unit has found that spending on the national health insurance system (NHI) would roughly match what government currently spends on healthcare……..Read more.    

  Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

• Business Day: The intolerably brutal equation faced by SA’s ill

  THE entrance to the state hospital was reminiscent of a street market. There were vendors aplenty, selling anything from boerewors rolls to vuvuzelas and football shirts. There were also taxis aplenty and clearly transporting the sick and injured to and from the hospital was good business. Taxis were also making a mint out of transporting [...]

  Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

• Health-e News: Eastern Cape: Health system reform debated

  Drug shortages and lack of ambulances emerged as some of the most pressing health system issues in the Eastern Cape following a recent meeting of community based organisations. Organised by the Black Sash in partnership with the University of Cape Town’s Health Economics Unit and Health-e News Service, the provincial health workshops will travel to [...]

  Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

• Eastern Cape health conference to make sure the voices of communities are heard

  There has been a lot of talk about health system reform, including the National Health Insurance (NHI) system. But the voices of ordinary people who use the government clinics and hospitals every day are missing. The Black Sash, University of Cape Town Health Economics Unit and Health-e are hosting the first provincial health conference in [...]

  Friday, April 30th, 2010