Cost of cancer: Health experts champion availability, a...
At a webinar around the theme “Inequities to cancer medicines in South Africa”, Salome Meyer from non-profit organisation Cancer Alliance said on Tuesday that Covid-19 had served to further prove the inequities of the South African health system and that “Availability” of medicines needed to be coupled with “Affordability”, which would then translate into “Access” to medicines for everyone in need. Quoting former president Nelson Mandela, Meyer said “health cannot be a question of income; it is a basic human right”. The Cancer Alliance produced a report in 2017 titled Pat...
Source: dailymaverick.co.za