FILE — In this May 8, 2020, file photo a man looks into a tent as a health worker in protective gear collects a sample for COVID-19 testing in Diepsloot, Johannesburg, South Africa. South Africa’s ...

For a continent with such stark inequality, Africa has seen limited innovation to increase access to healthcare and reduce healthcare delivery costs. Over the years, there has been continued ...

Share on Pinterest New research compares the in-hospital mortality rates of 10 African countries with the global average. Menna Hossam/picture alliance via Getty Images African countries generally ...

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Johann Rupert, South Africa’s richest man, is set to consolidate his influence in private healthcare with a strategic move to ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is providing much-needed medical equipment to a severely understaffed and undersupplied hospital in one of Africa’s poorest ...

An anti-migrant group called Operation Dudula is blocking foreigners from public health clinics in South Africa ...

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TUGELA FERRY, South Africa (Reuters) - In a country where AIDS kills 900 people each day, full hospitals and beleaguered doctors are nothing new. But at one hospital in rural KwaZulu-Natal province, ...

Hospital wards across Uganda are filling with COVID-19 patients as the country faces an aggressive surge in cases. One of the biggest issues have: a serious shortage of oxygen. Over the last month, ...

Giuliana Demma, left, and her sister Audrina, right, sew pediatric hospital gowns in the basement of her Freehold, N.J., home on June 19, 2024. The sisters have sewn and donated 1,800 hospital gowns ...