Public health expenditure (% of GDP), 2002 : 3.5
Health expenditure per capita (PPP US$), 2002 : 689
Physicians (per 100,000 people), 1990-2004 : 69
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Data Source:HDR 2005 - UNDP

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SOUTH AFRICA - Basic Healthcare

MSF logo MSF - Médecins Sans Frontières
  § Basic Healthcare Country Sheet (in preparation)
   
WHO - World Health Organisation
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South Afrcia, Country Information, WHO, The World Health Report 2005

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Global Health Atlas, World Health Statistics 2005, WHO

  § World Health Organization Statistical Information System (WHOSIS), WHO
  § Survey report on medicine prices and affordibility in South Africa
   
UNDP - United Nations Development Programme
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Country tables, Human Development Report 2005

    ð South Africa Data Country Sheet
    ð South Africa Country Fact Sheet
   
Global Health Council
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Statistics from the Human Development Report 2003 are presented in an interactive world atlas.

    ð South Africa Statistics
   
The World Bank Group
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DevData, Health, Nutrition & Population Stats, 2005

   
ECOI - European Country of Information Network
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Ecoi.net collects and structures country resources with a specific focus on the needs of asylum lawyers, professional and volunteer refugee counsels as well as persons deciding on claims for asylum and other forms of international protection.
They provide an interesting search engine that gathers information from different sources with a high reputation, such as the UN, international non-governmental organisations, news services or newspapers.

   
HRC - Health Resource Centre
  § South Africa , Health Briefing Paper, Health Resource Centre, 2001
   
UK Home Office - Immigration & Nationality Directorate
  § South Africa, Country Report, UK Home Office, Mar 2006 (Word)
    ð Medical Issues : section 5.32 to 5.48
   
Social Security Online
  § South Africa, Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Africa, 2007
   
International Social Security Association
  § ISSA provides a database of social security systems in over 170 countries.
   
Transparency International
  § Global Corruption Report 2006, Special Focus: Corruption and Health
    ð Country Report South Africa, Ayesha Kajee
  § Corruption Perceptions Index 2005, Country rank: 46
   
Lists of development organizations in South Africa
  § South Africa, Directory of Development Organizations, edition 2006
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Palabres provides contact details of medical associations from North and West Africa.

You could also request further information from other organisations dealing with availability and accessibility of healthcare.

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