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Leveraging South Africa’s maturity level 3 to strengthen regulatory systems in...

Boitumelo Semete-Makokotlela and Chimwemwe Chamdimba - December 7, 2023

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

Stacey Knott - May 6, 2020

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

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

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

Activists lead fight for the right to cheaper drugs

Amy Green - April 7, 2016

Medication for drug-resistant tuberculosis can have serious side-effects like deafness and psychosis.

TB drug priced out of reach

Faranaaz Parker - March 2, 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.

Activists fear a pharmaceutical plot is at play

Amy Green - December 3, 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

Geofrey Yambayamba is taking his passion for pharmaceutics to Tanzania's government to get his country manufacturing medicine.

Create drugs, create self-reliance

Mara Kardas-Nelson - September 6, 2013

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