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Pretoria company aims to lead SA in making key TB drug ingredients

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

Though several South African companies are producing HIV and TB medicines, the active ingredients that go into these medicines are usually imported from India or China. Now, a local company is planning to break new ground by making the active ingredients for two important TB medicines in Pretoria. Catherine Tomlinson zooms in on the company’s efforts and outlines some of the obstacles to getting such local production off the ground.

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Glenda Gray’s fierce fight for science, the COVID-19 ruckus, and the bathroom row about HIV drugs

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

After a decade at the helm of the country’s primary health research funder, Professor Glenda Gray will focus again on doing the science. She tells Spotlight’s Biénne Huisman about her childhood, her passion for research, administering multi-million dollar grants, and a heated argument in the bathroom with an ANC bigwig.

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#InTheSpotlight | Beyond the hype, what might AI actually mean for healthcare in SA?

Posted in: #InTheSpotlight, Focus, Healthcare system, InFocus, Latest, Special Investigations, Spotlight, TB

With varying degrees of success, artificial intelligence has begun to play the role of research assistant, radiologist, health educator, and even therapist. In this Spotlight special briefing, Jesse Copelyn tries to see past the hype and pin-points the most immediate implications of these new technologies for healthcare in South Africa.

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