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Drug Companies' Patent Plot 'Genocide' - Health Minister

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has described a planned campaign by multinational pharmaceutical companies against proposed South African patent laws as "genocide".

South Africa: Drug Firms' Patent Plan 'Genocide' - Health Minister

SAPA, 17 January 2014

Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi says a planned campaign by multinational pharmaceutical companies against proposed South African patent laws is "genocide", The Mail&Guardian… Read more »

Emmanuel Pheta.

Doctors speaking to patients (file photo).

South Africa: MSF Reacts to International Pharma Industry Ploy to Subvert South African Patent Law Reform

MSF, 17 January 2014

Doctors Without Borders, as part of the Fix the Patent Laws campaign, applauds South African health minister Aaron Motsoaledi for speaking out against a multinational… Read more »
South Africa: Patent Blocks Life-Saving TB Medicine

GroundUp, 23 October 2013

Thousands of people in South Africa have drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB). Many of them will die. Death from TB can be slow and horrible. Read more »
South Africa: Patents Must Serve the Public Interest

GroundUp, 24 October 2013

It is in interests of large multinational companies to secure as many patents as possible. The Treatment Action Campaign, in line with the Draft National Policy on Intellectual… Read more »
South Africa: South Africa Government Under Fire for Failure to End Drug Stockouts

GFO, 20 December 2013

The great progress in South Africa's fight against AIDS will be undermined by its inability to resolve the problems caused by drug stockouts at health facilities around the… Read more »
South Africa: Treatment Action Campaign Boycotts World Aids Day Celebrations

Health-e, 2 December 2013

South Africa's largest association of people living with HIV, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), boycotted South Africa's World AIDS Day commemoration as more than 900 members… Read more »
South Africa: Aids Medicine Stockouts Put Thousands At Risk

GroundUp, 28 November 2013

South Africa's anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment programme is often hailed as one of the most important public health successes. It is the world's largest ARV programme, with over… Read more »

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