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The anti-HIV injection will be made in SA: Here are 4...

Zano Kunene - May 9, 2023

Why SA’s cancer activists are stuck in an endless loop

Jesse Copelyn - March 14, 2023

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Inside SA’s mRNA hub: What it looks like and how it...

Linda Pretorius and Mia Malan - October 14, 2022

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

Jayati Ghosh - May 12, 2021

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Keen to join the People’s Vaccine Campaign? Here’s what it’s about

Bhekisisa Team - January 15, 2021

Blood cancer patients such as Retha Wessels are forced to get a life-saving drug illegally to avoid paying thousands for it each month.

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

Joan van Dyk - February 15, 2019

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

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

‘I think I’m going to die,’ SA patient desperate for cancer...

Amy Green - March 18, 2016

Granted: Bongani Ngcobo has tuberculosis but he says a doctor refused to recommend a disability subsidy because he was wearing a smart shirt.

Bhekisisa’s stories changing lives: ‘People were finally helping me’

Amy Green - November 12, 2015

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.

Activists fear a pharmaceutical plot is at play

Amy Green - December 3, 2014

Activists continue to fight to lower the price of drug patents.

Patients before patents, demand health activists

Amy Green - March 11, 2014

Costly exercise: When Rio de Janeiro celebrated World Aids Day in 2007 it was with the knowledge that patent laws had driven up the cost of Brazil's Aids programme.

Brazil’s sick of patent exploitation

Mara Kardas-Nelson - October 11, 2013

The new intellectual property policy has been criticised by some members of the health care sector.

Battle on the horizon over intellectual property policy draft

Mara Kardas-Nelson - September 11, 2013

As multiple drug suppliers are failing to keep up with demand

Generic cancer drug – access not guaranteed

Mara Kardas-Nelson - September 9, 2013

Reading is believing: A copyright waiver will make material for the visually impaired much more accessible.

Landmark treaty breaks down book barriers for the blind

Mara Kardas-Nelson - July 5, 2013

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