Access to Medicines Archives

Access to affordable medicines refers to the reasonable ability for people to get needed medicines required to achieve health. Such access is deemed to be part of the right to health as supported by international law since 1946.

Tag: Access to Medicines

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Three health ministers in a row have failed SA’s nurses. Here’s...

Why SA needs the anti-HIV injection — for R120 a pop

Winning the COVID vaccine race: Why the TRIPS waiver is just...

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

Four factors blocking medicines made in Africa

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

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

Why we should be making our own COVID medicines, vaccines and...

Seizures of illicit chloroquine skyrocket during COVID-19 outbreak — Interpol

The world finally has an Ebola vaccine. This is why it’s...

Drones, drugs, hackers & the future of healthcare?

Would you know if the medicine you’re taking is fake?

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

He would ransom the pills for something more precious than profit:...

Five ways to save the world, according to Bill & Melinda...