Why pharmacists still can’t prescribe ARVs, months after court gave the green light

Posted in: Access to Medicines, Focus, Healthcare system, Healthcare Workers, HIV/AIDS, InFocus, Latest, Spotlight

A Supreme Court of Appeal ruling in October 2025 cleared the way for specially trained and permitted pharmacists to dispense antiretroviral medicines without a doctor’s script. Seven months later, no pharmacists are yet providing these services. Catherine Tomlinson explores the reasons for the delay.

Why pharmacists still can’t prescribe ARVs, months after court gave the green light

The children’s beachfront hospital the Apartheid govt tried to kill is reclaiming its heartbeat

Posted in: Access to Medicines, Child health, Focus, Healthcare system, InFocus, KwaZulu-Natal, Latest, Provinces, Spotlight, TB

Shut down by the apartheid government for providing care to child patients of all races, Durban’s Addington Children’s Hospital is well on its way from a ghostly ruin into a lifeline for a new generation thanks to visionaries like Professor Hoosen Coovadia. Biénne Huisman spent time inside the historic KwaZulu-Natal Children’s Hospital with its striking artworks and wards named after birds.