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What will happen to your medical aid under the NHI?

What will happen to your medical aid under the NHI?

Dylan Bush and Mia Malan -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
South Africa’s healthcare system could collapse if the government does not intervene.

Medical aid board says SA has no choice but to back...

Ina Skosana -
No healthcare for refugees in SA

No healthcare for refugees in SA

Dylan Bush -
Universal access to healthcare needs to be recognised as a fundamental human right.

Is universal access to healthcare possible?

Graça Machel and Gro Harlem Brundtland -
Yvette Mbayo-Ndaya has high blood pressure

Refugees ripped off at state hospitals

Ina Skosana -
Pollsmoor Remand: "They treated us like animals"

Pollsmoor Remand: “They treated us like animals”

Dylan Bush -
Refugees are at risk of developing mental disorders

‘The baby fell, but I just kept running’

Ina Skosana -
Close to death

Close to death, but ‘no medication for foreigners’

Dylan Bush -
Rape survivors from war torn countries need healthcare and support in South Africa

DRC to SA: No escape from rape’s war

Ina Skosana -
Activists continue to fight to lower the price of drug patents.

Activists lead fight for the right to cheaper drugs

Amy Green -
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 -
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 -
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