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How Should South Africa’s National Health Insurance (NHI) Address Migrant Health Coverage to Protect Public Health?

 The Public Health Case A Crisis at the Clinic Door On a humid morning in Nellmapius, Pretoria, Grace (not her real name) arrives at her local clinic carrying her nine-month-old daughter, burning with fever. At the triage desk, the nurse asks for a South African ID. Grace presents her Zimbabwean passport, its documentation expired. As […]

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How is climate change reshaping migration patterns from rural to urban areas in South Africa’s Eastern Cape and Limpopo provinces?

Climate Change and Rural-Urban Migration: Health Policy Implications for South Africa’s Eastern Cape and Limpopo When the Land Runs Dry: The Human Face of Migration Thembisile’s Journey Thembisile, a 34-year-old mother of three from rural Limpopo, spent two decades cultivating maize and vegetables on her family’s land. Between 2020 and 2024, successive droughts destroyed her

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