Africa’s Cholera Crisis Deepens as 2025 Death Toll Rises

Original Article by The Independent Uganda | 9 September 2025

Africa's cholera crisis escalates in 2025, with alarming statistics showing over 239,000 cases and a rising death toll.

Africa’s cholera crisis escalates in 2025, with alarming statistics showing over 239,000 cases and a rising death toll.

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Dr Thembisile Xulu is the new health Director-General, inheriting a strained department, healthcare-worker shortages and NHI litigation.

Gauteng is losing 100 nurses a month and needs R5.7bn to fill a 16,000-post gap. This shortage now flagged as a key risk to the NHI rollout.

Regulation, not demand, blocks affordable cover: medical schemes should be allowed to offer low-cost benefit options (LCBOs) now.