The report by the World Bank and key research institutions highlights how digital innovations like biometric IDs, mobile ...

and South Dakota has 56% of counties without the service, according to the March of Dimes. Winner also becomes the latest rural hospital in the U.S. to end delivery services, joining more than 200 ...

Rural and Urban Private ... on payments to the private hospital.” Hospitals that have discontinued services include AGC Tenwek, Siloam, Chelymo hospitals in the South Rift region, Kisi Teaching ...

Some public health experts point out that bolstering the number of rural clinics, hospitals, and doctors in the South won’t matter much if patients can’t afford to make an appointment.

Community health workers — also known as ooNomakhaya in isiXhosa — fill a major gap in healthcare in hard-to-reach places.

The elimination of birthing services at Winner Regional Health hospital will force dozens of expectant mothers in a wide swath of south-central South Dakota to drive one to two hours on rural ...

After relentless lobbying, the state gave the system $30 million, an unprecedented move not just due to the amount, but to the state making room in the budget for a hospital at all. Rural Ohio ...

Two distinct populations, seniors and rural ... South Dakota were 30 to 40 degrees below zero), and healthcare providers in those communities don’t want to send them elsewhere. A Hospital ...

Image: South Africa is home to one of the world's worst ... The policy puts at risk programmes including those that support field hospitals in Thai refugee camps, landmine clearance in war zones ...

While last year's address outlined ambitious plans and celebrated certain achievements, healthcare professionals like Coetzee ...

South Africa has a history of colonial conquest and dispossession which pushed the Black majority into crowded urban townships and rural reserves. The country's British imperial masters gave most ...

The old Greenville Hospital near Bizana in the Eastern Cape ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 500 news and information items daily from ...