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Where are the black experts? The few we have in the health sector are rarely quoted in the media.

Black experts in the health sector: Where are they?

Pontsho Pilane - August 11, 2017

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

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

Me and my meds: It’s a fraught friendship

Amy Pieterse - October 4, 2016

What started as a bizarre press release touting a "potential HIV cure" has gone viral leading media houses all over the world to lash out over firm Zion Medical's latest claims.

South Africa is placed on alert for ‘superbug’ as drug-resistant yeast...

Pontsho Pilane - September 29, 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

As multiple drug suppliers are failing to keep up with demand

South Africa faces paediatric cancer drug shortage as suppliers fail to...

Laura López González - August 1, 2016

Where will newly qualified doctors go if provinces are being told to scale back staff under budget pressures?

Curing a sick system: Doctors and nurses must speak out for...

Samantha Khan Gillmore - August 1, 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

Government disputes drug stock-out survey: ‘Far fewer clinics run out of...

Mia Malan - June 24, 2016

Close to one-third

War declared on the ‘superbugs’

Amy Green - July 17, 2014

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

Unprescribed: Students are using the drug Ritalin to stay focused for exams.

‘Smart drugs’ rife at universities

Amy Green - March 22, 2013

Business boosters: The law that regulates medicines in South Africa is not enforced for complimentary and alternative medicines.

Immune boosters a risky letdown

Ina Skosana - February 22, 2013

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