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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...

VACCINE WRAP | NCCC mulls tighter border rules amid fears of 'imported' variants 7 May 2021 3:12 PM CapeTalk gives you a round-up of the latest vaccine news every week. Health Minister Zweli Mkhize says the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) is deliberating on the issue of border control. This comes amid concerns around the possible importation of the B.1.617 variant now dominating in India as well as other variants of concern. Minister Mkhize says local scientists are working hard to examine the samples taken from Covid-19 positive patients that traveled to SA from India. At the sam...

The big vaccine patent waiver decision: 'It's like horse trading now' 6 May 2021 6:57 PM Share This: Tough negotiations lie ahead for WTO members on lifting Covid-19 vaccine patent protections, says Salome Meyer (Cancer Alliance). The US has announced it's supporting a move to lift patent protections for Covid-19 vaccines, temporarily. The aim is to make vaccines more accessible to hasten the end of the pandemic. South Africa and India have been at the forefront of the push for the waiver on vaccine intellectual property (IP) protections at the World Trade Organization (WTO). Weeks of tough n...