November 23, 2015

Treatment Action Campaign receives R14m

The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has received a R14 million pledge from Canadian non-profit organisation the Stephen Lewis Foundation that will save it from closing its doors, but will not save jobs already on the cutting board.

4 things South Africa is doing to safeguard medicines

In an effort to combat medicine shortages, South Africa will roll out a first of its kind early warning system to identify drug stock outs before they happen. See what else the country is doing to keep pills in patients’ hands.

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November 23, 2015

South Africa launches world’s first early drug stock out warning system

In an effort to combat medicine shortages, South Africa will roll out a first of its kind early warning system to identify drug stock outs before they happen. The move comes as country and makers of the antiretroviral Aluvia work to address shortages

lauralopez

November 23, 2015

Rise of killer superbugs continues

Factory farming and excessive pill-popping is driving the development of ‘superbugs’ able to evade our best medicines, making death from common infections possible once again. Now resistance to one of the very last effective antibiotics has been discovered.

Treatment Action Campaign receives R14m

4 things South Africa is doing to safeguard medicines

South Africa launches world’s first early drug stock out warning system

Rise of killer superbugs continues

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