Tag: South Africa

June 14, 2017 Off

Pfizer, Roche and Aspen face Shouth African probe into cancer drug prices

South Africa’s competition watchdog has launched an investigation into three drug companies accused of over-charging for cancer medicines, the agency’s chief said on Tuesday.

November 30, 2015 Off

In rural South Africa, AIDS treatment gains ground – but so do infections

By Dino Mustafić

When HIV-positive patients first came to seek treatment at the rural Uthungulu district health clinic in South Africa’s eastern KwaZulu-Natal province in 1998, their records were kept in brown folders, the colour designated for the disease.