South Africa

According to South Africa's Business Day, Discovery Health saved ZAR181mn (US$24mn) a year by cutting unnecessary hospital admissions. The firm saved ZAR434mn (US$57.37mn) by negotiating... 2008-07-23

IRIN quoted Dr Clarence Mini of Africa Health Placements stating that South Africa's state hospitals are facing a shortage of more than 4,000 doctors.

Namibia is to follow South Africa's lead by rescheduling a number of medicines containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine and d-norpseudoephedrine as prescription-only drugs. The new schedule... 2008-07-10

South Africa's Department of Health has announced the awarding of contracts worth ZAR3.62bn (US$468.1mn) for its two-year HIV/AIDS tender, which will begin retrospectively from June... 2008-07-09

Indian generics firm Zydus Cadila has announced that it is to acquire 70% of South Africa's Simayla Pharmaceuticals, as part of its drive to penetrate southern Africa's generics markets.... 2008-06-10

Merck Sharpe & Dohme (MSD), the international subsidiary of US-based Merck & Co has granted a further two licences for generic versions of its antiretroviral (ARV) Stocrin... 2008-06-05

Old Mutual South Africa (OMSA) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Lethimvula Investments that would see the merger of their respective healthcare interests to form South... 2008-05-20

Highlighting the legal minefield of bioprospecting, Germany's Schwabe Pharmaceuticals is facing a challenge to two European Patent Office (EPO) patents for its phytopharmaceutical... 2008-05-14

In the company's own words, Enaleni's recently released annual results for the year ending December 31 2007 were 'reasonable, under the circumstances'. BMI would agree with this assessment.... 2008-03-18

South Africa was recently chastised for dragging its heels on the implementation of a World Health Organization (WHO)-recommended switch to dual-antiretroviral (ARV) treatment for... 2008-03-13