UN-backed Millennium Villages project in Africa launches second phase
3 October 2011 UN News Centre A United Nations-backed initiative designed to accelerate efforts to attain social development and eradicate extreme poverty in rural Africa today launched its second...
View ArticleHIV/Aids vs family planning
29 October 2011 Mail & Guardian The international community has "made a mistake" with the intensity of its focus on the global HIV/Aids epidemic and lost ground on family planning as a result, says...
View Article‘Health is not about deep pockets’
8 December 2011 IOL Investing in a strong primary healthcare system, eliminating fragmentation and containing hospital prices. These are some of the key lessons that the national Health Department can...
View ArticleBlueprint for future TB vaccines unveiled
21 March 2012 Plus News Almost a century ago, French scientists discovered the world's only tuberculosis (TB) vaccine. Now the World Health Organization warns that without a new one, the world will not...
View ArticleSection27, TAC join big pharma bust-up over cancer drug
15 May 2012 Mail and Guardian The case is of interest to healthcare lobbyists because it could advance patients’ right to access affordable medicines. The patent on Docetaxel expired in 2007 and the...
View ArticleCouncil nod to little-tested killer-TB drug
8 January 2013 Business Day The Medicines Control Council (MCC) has granted patients with extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) access to Johnson & Johnson’s experimental drug bedaquiline,...
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