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It has been more than a year since the tragic death of Reeva Steenkamp but her friends in the small town of Port Elizabeth are yet to accept that she is gone, writes the BBC's Pumza Fihlani.
It has been more than a year since the tragic death of Reeva Steenkamp but her friends in the small town of Port Elizabeth are yet to accept that she is gone, writes the BBC's Pumza Fihlani.
The long-discussed technique could help make pharma manufacturing more distributed, finds Andy Extance, and create opportunities for chemists with the right skills
By supplying medicines that can save or extend people’s lives, chemists can be heroes. But while many of us now recognise the frustration of awaiting drugs or vaccines due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it has been a daily reality in South Africa for years. There, pharmacies regularly run out of life-saving drugs, explains Paul Watts from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth. In 2016 the Stop Stockouts consortium found that a fifth of the country’s pharmacies had no drugs to fight Aids and tuberculosis on the day they were contacted. ‘If you’ve got people living in shacks a two hour bus journey from the nearest clinic, they may have spent all their money on their bus,’ Watts explains. ‘If they’ve not got the drugs, they’re not going back for another month.’