Tamar Kahn
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Writer and occasional data dabbler. Covering science, health and education for Business Day
Cape Town
Joined July 2010
SA falls short on shielding tobacco bill from industry influence
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Country lacks code of conduct for MPs, state officials and judiciary’s interactions with tobacco industry
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SA lags global efforts to counter tobacco harm, warns WHO via @BusinessLiveSA.
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SA is among the last 60 countries that have yet to ban or regulate e-cigarettes
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Health Funders Association takes legal action against NHI Act - the 6th organisation to do so via @BusinessLiveSA.
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Government’s plan for universal healthcare is unaffordable and irrational, medical scheme body argues
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ICYMI yesterday: Treasury mulls bids for extra health funds to counter US cuts via @BusinessLiveSA.
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Section 16 of the Public Finance Management Act is one of the options, says National Treasury chief director for health and social development
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Stripping civil servants of medical scheme benefits will require care, BHF hears via @BusinessLiveSA.
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Support of unions will be helpful, Clinton Health Access Initiative tells Board of Healthcare Funders
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Court orders Ramaphosa to provide records showing how he decided to sign the NHI Act into law via @BusinessLiveSA.
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Ruling reaffirms constitutional principle that no office-bearer is above judicial scrutiny
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MRC raises bid for emergency funding as donors step up via @BusinessLiveSA.
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Medical Research Council secures R400m in commitments from donor organisations
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SA’s hard-won HIV/Aids gains in the balance after US aid cuts
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Health department turns to science to build its business case for increasing domestic disease funding
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Former miners due R1.3bn in unclaimed benefits for lung diseases via @BusinessLiveSA.
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Assessed more than two decades ago for ill health, 75,000 eligible claimants are owed money but can’t be found
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NHI adverts vital to counter ‘irrational and negative’ propaganda, says health minister via @BusinessLiveSA.
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The department is scrambling to find funds to fill the gap left by Donald Trump’s cutting back on foreign aid
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Trump’s cuts to SA science jeopardise projects, lives and livelihoods via @BusinessLiveSA.
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Hundreds of projects at universities and research institutions placed in jeopardy from US grant cuts
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SA researchers launch appeal for emergency funding to counter US cuts via @BusinessLiveSA.
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Treasury can use provisions in the Public Finance Management Act to make emergency funds available
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Donald Trump triggers possible loss of R1bn in grants for SA research via @BusinessLiveSA.
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Treasury can use provisions in the Public Finance Management Act to make emergency funds available
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NHI will place high burden on taxpayers, say doctors via @BusinessLiveSA.
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Without the support of doctors the NHI cannot be implemented, says SA Medical Association CEO
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Trump government’s actions ‘an assault on science’, says top HIV researcher via @BusinessLiveSA.
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To not invest in science is to not invest in the growth of our GDP, MRC chief scientific officer Glenda Grey says
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Parliament begins oral hearings on tobacco bill via @BusinessLiveSA.
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More than 60 stakeholders who made written submissions have asked to present their input directly to parliament’s health committee
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Motsoaledi confident SA will reach HIV treatment goal despite US aid cuts via @BusinessLiveSA.
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Health minister says SA will meet goal of providing treatment to an extra 1.1-million HIV patients
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President urged to scrap health minister’s ban on cannabis in food and drink via @BusinessLiveSA.
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GOOD party’s Brett Herron says minister Aaron Motsoaledi is ‘smoking his socks’ — and putting jobs at risk
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Still no relief in budget for US cuts to grants for HIV/Aids via @BusinessLiveSA.
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The only move so far is that national health will appoint staff working in its central chronic medicines dispensing and distribution programme, whose salaries had been covered by donor funding
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Welfare grant recipients get modest inflation-beating increases in Treasury's new budget via @BusinessLiveSA.
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Social spending will rise by R8.2bn over the medium term, down from the R23.3bn increase proposed in February
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