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All about the air: How COVID turned oxygen into a luxury

David Fairen-Jimenez - May 5, 2021

We can get polio out of Africa this year and out of every country in the world in the next several years, say Bill and Melinda Gates.

Four factors blocking medicines made in Africa

Francis Aboagye-Nyame - April 26, 2021

This COVID-19 medicine opened a Pandora’s box in SA. Find out...

Joan van Dyk - September 3, 2020

Will SA buy this COVID drug for thousands per person –...

Joan van Dyk - August 19, 2020

Would you betray your partner in crime if it meant you could avoid jail? Here's how this mentality can push up the price of medicines.

SA just endorsed a draft resolution that could bring Big Pharma...

Joan van Dyk - April 17, 2019

Here's what you missed at this week's World Health Organisation

Seven things that will make you think twice about the cost...

Joan van Dyk - April 12, 2019

Going one day without betanoid can be life theatening - and it's been out of stock nationwide for months.

National cancer drug shortage may last until October

Joan van Dyk - June 23, 2017

Junior doctors lives stand still as they wait to be paid after the human resource staff failed to capture their details to the payroll system on time.

How to choose a medical aid plan

Ina Skosana - November 15, 2016

Promising Ebola vaccines languished for years in research and development for more than a decade without funding.

Money can’t be the only motive for developing life-saving medicines

Ruth Dreifuss and Malebona Precious Matsoso - October 17, 2016

A 12-month course of Herceptin costs R151 520 in South Africa because of patent protection

Hundreds of protestors descend on DTI’s Pretoria offices demanding access to...

Laura López González - September 27, 2016

Would you betray your partner in crime if it meant you could avoid jail? Here's how this mentality can push up the price of medicines.

Lift the veil on drug pricing and trade agreements, the UN...

Laura López González - September 14, 2016

Preliminary results of an OECD study comparing private hospital prices in South Africa with those of countries like Germany and France found South African facilities were the least affordable.

‘Most citizens are poor so private hospitals seem costly – they...

Ina Skosana - August 9, 2016

Economic hardship means many health facilities are denying women access to free maternal healthcare.

Long queues tell Zimbabwe’s story of economic crisis and failing healthcare

Adri Kotze and Tawanda Karombo - July 12, 2016

The Indian government has been providing free antiretroviral drugs for HIV treatment since 2004

South Africa must stand firm with India – the pharmacy of...

Claire Waterhouse - July 7, 2016

A high level UN meeting in Johannesburg will look at the current focus on pharmaceutical sales and the lack of production of health technologies for diseases that do not impact countries with major pharmaceutical capabilities.

UN panel investigates access to medicine

Amy Green - March 17, 2016

Close to one-third

War declared on the ‘superbugs’

Amy Green - July 17, 2014

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