After a seven-year battle, India’s government has successfully defended its right to reject drug patents if a medicine doesn’t deserve one.
The visually impaired are shackled by developed countries’ reluctance to change copyright laws.
Many drugs cost far more in South Africa than in countries with strict patent-vetting processes.
A global squabble over property rights could see the price of medicine soar in poor countries.
Tests on new TB drugs have not yet been completed and some results have been worrying.
Farm communities suffer from poor health, alcohol abuse, shoddy service delivery and harsh living conditions.
Some say it’s about culture. Others believe it’s a ticket to debauchery. But the Cape Town Carnival is more than 100 years old and going strong.
Mara Kardas-Nelson ate and drank and walked her way through a gloriously hot, sticky and beautifully unhurried mess.
Residents of all different backgrounds fear that the Bo-Kaap will be left behind if the community does not have forceful collective representation.
The city that remains abuzz from morning until night,leaves you wanting more as it has too much to soak up in a short amount of time.