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The Cape Medical Museum is situated in the Old City Hospital Complex in Green Point, Cape Town, South Africa. Its exhibitions center around the medical history of the Cape and includes exhibitions on dentistry, hospital care, traditional African medicine and pharmaceutical developments. It was founded by a group of volunteers in the 1980s led ...
Medical experimentation in Africa. African countries have been sites for clinical trials by large pharmaceutical companies, raising human rights concerns. [1] Incidents of unethical experimentation, clinical trials lacking properly informed consent, and forced medical procedures have been claimed and prosecuted.
1997. Status: Current legislation. South Africa's Medicines and Related Substance 1997 is a law enacted a compulsory license in order to fight HIV/AIDS epidemic. The intent of the Act was to reduce drug prices by allowing generic substitution of off-patent drugs, the parallel importation of on-patent drugs as well as price transparency.
As South Africa marks three decades since its first democratic elections, a historic moment that dismantled the apartheid system and ushered in Black-majority rule, the country is at a crossroads.
South African pharmaceutical major Aspen <APNJ.J> could provide 10 million dexamethasone tablets within a month, Chief Executive Stephen Saad said on Tuesday after the World Health Organisation ...
Afrigen. Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines is a South African pharmaceutical company. Afrigen developed a COVID vaccine and is working on mRNA vaccines for tuberculosis and HIV. [1][2][3] It is based in the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality. [4]
MARIA CHENG. August 14, 2024 at 3:05 PM. LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the increasing spread of mpox in Africa is a global health emergency, warning the ...
Authority and service delivery are divided between the national Department of Health, provincial health departments, and municipal health departments. [1] In 2017, South Africa spent 8.1% of GDP on health care, or US$499.2 per capita. Of that, approximately 42% was government expenditure. [2] About 79% of doctors work in the private sector. [3]