Please find the attached soundbite by Siviwe Gwarube MP. The Democratic Alliance’s (DA) lawyers wrote to the Presidency seven days ago making the case that President Cyril Ramaphosa has a constitutional obligation – as does his entire Executive – to be transparent about the vaccine acquisition and distribution plan. We committed to approaching the courts
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Andrew Mosane, a seasoned AIDS activist who brought the voice of marginalized people and communities to the centre of the AIDS response, died on 15 January 2021, at the age of 45 years. He was known to many in South Africa and around the world as a tireless advocate for human rights. Photo courtesy of SANAC
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South Africa has lost one of its most gutsy social justice and AIDS activistsâAndrew Mosane.
South Africa has lost one of its most gutsy social justice and AIDS activistsâAndrew Mosane. Mr Mosane died on 15 January 2021, at the age of 45 years, and was laid to rest on 20 January.
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There is a clamour by some people for ivermectin to be approved by the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) to treat Covid-19. An article published in the South African Medical Journal (SAMJ) titled
Ivermectin for Covid-19: Promising but not yet conclusive, written by six Tygerberg Hospital and Stellenbosch University clinicians and scientists, explains the current status of the drug.
Medicines are only approved for use by the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority when there is sufficient evidence that their benefits outweigh their risks.Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic drug, which has been used against a range of parasitic conditions, in humans and animals. In South Africa, Sahpra has granted access to unregistered ivermectin in cases of resistant scabies, but the drug is not approved for human use in this country. Sahpra, according to the SAM) article, has said that the drug may not be used except in well-designed, ethically approved scientifi
While Covid-19 will continue to make headlines for some time, 2021 will also be a critical year for healthcare reforms in South Africa and for various aspects of the country’s HIV and TB response. These are Spotlight’s top 12 healthcare questions for the year.
1. Can government procure and effectively roll out Covid-19 vaccines?
Providing safe and effective Covid-19 vaccines to as many people as possible and as quickly as possible will be government’s biggest health priority this year. This will in the first place require that we rapidly procure sufficient volumes of the appropriate vaccines. At the time of writing, South Africa has signed up to the COVAX facility (likely to provide doses for around five or six million people) and made a deal with the Serum Institute of India for the AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccine (doses for around 750 000 people). Much more will be needed to get close to government’s target of vaccinating around 40 million people. Beyond procurement