Our health system is getting better
The New Age
7 December 2012
If there is one outstanding success story of the post-2009 administration, it is the story of South Africa's remarkable improvement in life expectancy. The incoming administration post-Mangaung needs to draw lessons from that experience.
Health outcomes remained a serious challenge, but in 2008 they were an unmitigated disaster. At the time the projections for health outcomes, and by extension the projections for the future of South Africa, were hopelessly gloomy.
The country was seeing more than 520 000 new HIV-infections annually (that is, 1450 day) and the pandemic was by all accounts worsening. About 60 000 babies were being infected annually by mother-to-child transmission. South Africa's life expectancy by some calculations fell below 50 years, comparable only with the most war-ravaged countries in the world...read the full article
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