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Carte Blanche This Week: SA Cancer Patients Struggle to Pay Due to Outdated Patent Laws
Many cancer patients in South Africa struggle to cover the steep costs of the medication they need, in large part driven by outdated patent legislation. With a COVID-19 vaccine coming onto the market, the need to revise South Africa’s outdated patent laws has never been greater.
Money or Your Life – Surviving SA’s Outdated Drug Patent Laws
This Sunday, Carte Blanche investigates the implications for cancer patients who have to fork out anything from R40,000 to R85,000 for myeloma drugs that – purely because of extensive patent protection can cost as little as R2,500 in a country like India.