The United States is telling African leaders that adopting stringent intellectual property policies will promote African growth through innovation. In reality, Africa has far more to lose from stricter intellectual property regulation, especially when it comes to access to generic medicines and...
Posts Tagged “South Africa”
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Posted in: Africa, Health, United States
Topics: access to medicines, Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, Brett Davidson, Free Trade Agreement, Health, health media, India, intellectual property, public health, South Africa, Trans Pacific Free Trade Agreement, TRIPS, United States, World Trade Organization
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Epidemiologist Jonathan Smith is working on a documentary film about the lives of four mineworkers who were dismissed from their jobs and sent home after contracting tuberculosis in the South African gold mines.
Posted in: Africa, Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: Brett Davidson, Health, health media, HIV/AIDS, Jonathan Smith, migrants, mine workers, public health, South Africa, Swaziland, tuberculosis, video advocacy
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A group of writers including Zadie Smith, Chimamanda Adiche, and Aleksander Hemon take a look at education systems in conflict-affected countries around the world.
Posted in: Asia, Education & Youth, Europe, Media & Arts
Topics: Aleksander Hemon, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Chimamanda Adiche, education reform, Guernica, Haiti, Hardeep Sing Kholi, Hugh McLean, India, Kamila Shamsie, Nathalie Handal, Nepal, Nick Laird, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Petina Guppah, Rachel Holmes, South Africa, Tahmima Anam, Zadie Smith, Zimbabwe, Zukisa Wanner
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South African authorities blew the opportunity to help the Swazi people by providing much-needed financial assistance coupled with conditions that would foster real reform.
Posted in: Africa, Governance & Accountability
Topics: bailout, corruption, Jacob Zuma, King Mswati, Pravin Gordhan, Richard Lee, South Africa, Swaziland
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Although hepatitis C is curable, most patients outside of the developed world are unable to access treatment, due largely in part to prohibitive pricing of lifesaving medicines.
Posted in: Asia, Europe, Health, United States
Topics: access to medicines, Azadeh Momenghalibaf, Brazil, drug users, Georgia, harm reduction, Hepatitis C, HIV/AIDS, human rights, India, Indonesia, public health, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, Ukraine, United States, video, World Health Organization, World Hepatitis Day
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Despite UN recognition of the importance of HIV-prevention outreach to at-risk populations, the inability to protect sex workers from HIV remains appalling.
Posted in: Africa, Health, Latin America & the Caribbean, Rights & Justice
Topics: Argentina, Ban Ki-moon, Ghana, Heather Doyle, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HIV prevention, HIV/AIDS, human rights, Kenya, Macedonia, Malawi, public health, sex workers, South Africa, Uganda, UN High Level Meeting on AIDS, UNAIDS, United Nations, Zimbabwe
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Palliative care has made impressive strides in the medical community. But now we must ensure that governments see palliative care, particularly the relief of suffering, as a basic human right for all people.
Posted in: Health, Rights & Justice
Topics: Campaign to Stop Torture in Health Care, Diederik Lohman, European Association for Palliative Care, Hospice Palliative Care Association, human rights, Human Rights Watch, law and health, Liz Gwyther, pain relief, palliative care, Paul Silva, public health, South Africa, Ukraine, video
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Continued media freedom violations in countries such as Zimbabwe, Swaziland, and Angola indicate that the struggle for press freedom and access to information in the region is far from over.
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If Libya is the epicenter of the earthquake, seismic waves washed up last Saturday night at the UN headquarters as its highest decision-making body, the Security Council, took unanimous, unprecedented action against the regime of Muammar Qaddafi.
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A campaign aims to address the state of education in South Africa, where only seven percent of public schools have functional libraries.
Posted in: Africa, Education & Youth
Topics: Hamza Aktan, schools, Soccer World Cup, South Africa
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