Healthcare spending will rise to US$42bn by the end of the forecast period in 2019. The government will seek to address shortcomings in the currently under-resourced public health system, and extend testing and treatment for the HIV/AIDS pandemic, but will be constrained by substantial fiscal deficits and concerns over growth.
The Economist Intelligence Unit expects spending to remain relatively stable as a proportion of GDP over the 2015-19 forecast period, at around a respectable 9%. Total healthcare spending in local-currency terms will rise by an annual average of 9% between 2015 and 2019, with spending per head rising more slowly, reflecting annual average population growth of 0.6%.
The government has also budgeted R43.5bn (US$3.7bn) to expand patient enrolment in HIV/AIDS treatment programmes by 500,000 patients annually during the next three years.

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