South Africa

South Africa's Department of Health has reported to the UN that it is struggling to meet its HIV/AIDS treatment targets as outlined under the National Strategic Plan (NSP) 2007-2011.... 2008-03-11

India's Strides Arcolab and South Africa's Aspen Pharmacare have completed their tie-up, which gives Aspen a 50% stake in Strides' Latin American operations. Aspen injected US$152.5mn... 2008-03-07

India's Strides Arcolab and South Africa's Aspen Pharmacare have completed their tie-up, which gives Aspen a 50% stake in Strides' Latin American operations. Aspen injected US$152.5mn... 2008-03-07

The South African Competition Commission believes that four pharmaceutical firms colluded and inflated their prices for government hospital tenders. Three will face the Competition... 2008-02-13

Swiss drugmaker Roche has expanded its Technology Transfer Initiative for the production of generic versions of the company's patented second line antiretroviral (ARV) Invirase (saquinavir)... 2008-01-17

South Africa's drugmakers have put together proposals for a new marketing code aimed at tightening the laws surrounding the advertising of prescription and over-the-counter (OTC)... 2007-12-27

In response to the growing popularity of herbal remedies, a partnership between the University of Missouri in the US and South Africa's University of the Western Cape will commence... 2007-12-20

India's Strides Arcolab and South Africa-based Aspen Pharmacare have signed a strategic partnership that will interlink the two companies' interests across several regions and therapeutic... 2007-11-21

South Africa's Adcock Ingram has found itself on the wrong side of the Medicines Control Council (MCC) after the regulator alleged Adcock has persistently engaged in illegal direct-to-consumer... 2007-10-29

As US giant Pfizer winds up its inhaled insulin product Exubera on the back of disappointing sales, Canada's Generex is hoping to expand its own oral insulin spray, Generex Oral-lyn,... 2007-10-23