The recent ruling declaring parts of the National Health Act unconstitutional is likely the first of many. Experts view these challenges as opportunities to find better solutions. A panel of experts, including Professor Alex van den Heever, Professor Saloshni Naidoo,...
As South Africans, we have set our destination as a future of healthcare equality, but the route mapped out for us in the National Health Insurance (NHI) Act is potholed, long, and winding … As the Health Minister points out, structural imbalances between private and...
The US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR, is increasing its purchase of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) from local suppliers to support 2 million patients in Africa, according to Stavros Nicolaou, head of strategic trade at Aspen Pharmacare. This...
The National Department of Health in South Africa seeks information on affordable prices for the anti-HIV injection CAB-LA. This comes after accepting a donation of 231,000 doses from the US government’s PEPFAR programme. A request for information is a formal way for...
The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) is challenging a Pretoria High Court decision to remove the provisional curatorship of the SA Post Office (Sapo) medical scheme, Medipos. The regulator believes the judge made a mistake and should have kept the curatorship in...
