Browsing: Health

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — HIV activists confronted U.S. officials before the official start of the AIDS 2026 conference over sweeping changes to Washington’s global HIV strategy, accusing the Trump administration of creating a public health emergency through funding cuts, while the United States defended a new financing model that it says will build more sustainable,…

The affordability of private healthcare in South Africa continues to face mounting pressure, with medical scheme members paying a significant portion of their household income to access private quality care in their time of need. While medical scheme membership remains a critical component of quality private healthcare access, many members are often surprised to discover…

The National Mental Health Programme of the Ministry of Health with support from the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention recently convened a day’s stakeholder’s engagement to help drum-up support for Mental Health Legislative reforms in The Gambia.

The Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly, which concluded in Geneva on 23 May 2026, may be remembered less for its resolutions than for the view of health they expressed. Across deliberations on financing, antimicrobial resistance, workforce mobility, emergency preparedness and universal health coverage, health was treated as a concern of economic policy, industrial development, national security…