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Here's what you missed at this week's World Health Organisation

Seven things that will make you think twice about the cost...

Joan van Dyk -
South African doctors are giving antibiotics to healthy patients

Undercover researchers went into doctors’ rooms. You won’t believe what they...

Joan van Dyk -
“Whenever I heard about comics I thought of jokes. I never knew I could develop my own comics and use them to talk about important issues”

Antibiotic resistance: Three ways to stop the rise of the superbugs

Tim Jinks -
The North West is out of medicine. And worse may be yet to come.

Missing medicines and missing money: Why a bigger crisis looms in...

Russell Rensburg -
How an international syndicate profited from Southern Africa's HIV epidemics

State capture strikes again? Why 95% of medicines are missing at...

Nelisiwe Msomi -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -

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

Mia Malan -
Close to one-third

War declared on the ‘superbugs’

Amy Green -
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 -
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