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Equitable access to lifesaving, affordable medicines unlikely under NHI

All patients and the very sick should benefit from the best medicines and care science has to offer. This is what the current draft f the NHI Bill does not do. ....

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We are unlikely to be equitably able to access lifesaving, affordable medicines under NHI

All patients and the very sick should benefit from the best medicines and care science has to offer, not just the rich or the employed. At the same time, Universal Health Coverage should better public health outcomes. But this is exactly what the NHI Bill does not do, as currently drafted. ....

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Activists fear stalled Copyright Amendment Bill is head...

Disability rights activists, performers and creatives have expressed dismay at the National Assembly’s Trade and Industry Committee’s deliberation on the long-awaited Copyright Amendment Bill (CAB) which they believe will effectively relegate the Bill back to the starting blocks.
The National Assembly’s Trade and Industry Committee met on 12 May to discuss President Cyril Ramaphosa’s concerns about the Bill almost a year after the president sent the bill back to Parliament for review.
The CAB, drafted by the Department of Trade, Industry and competition (DTIC), amends the outdated Copyright Act of 1978 and was realised after a decade-long process of consultation. While the committee will adopt their final report about the Bill on Friday, supporters of the Bill feel that the direction of the committee’s discussion on 13 May is a major setback to their hopes of having the Bill signed into law. ....

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