Interview: Cheri Nel, the investment banker from Joburg taking on pharma over cystic fibrosis medicines

Posted in: Access to Medicines, Healthcare system, Latest

Johannesburg-based investment banker Cheri Nel is the driving force behind a court case that may result in dramatically expanded access to life-changing new cystic fibrosis (CF) medicines. Biénne Huisman asked Nel about the motivation behind the court case and what it is like to live with CF.

Interview: Cheri Nel, the investment banker from Joburg taking on pharma over cystic fibrosis medicines

In-depth: How cystic fibrosis is being treated in SA while breakthrough meds remain out of reach

Posted in: Access to Medicines, Healthcare system, Healthcare Workers, Latest

Spotlight recently reported on a court case aimed at expanding access to breakthrough new treatments for cystic fibrosis (CF) and on how this debilitating disease is diagnosed in South Africa. Now, in Part 3 of this special series on CF, Catherine Tomlinson turns the spotlight on how the disease is currently being treated in the country, while the new treatments are still largely out of reach.