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Four toilets, built in 2013 by the organisation Candice Andisiwe Sehoma founded, are still flushing, although floods of raw sewage flow daily through the streets of Alexandra. (Sean Christie)
AIDS

Building toilets, fighting TB: Candice Andisiwe Sehoma’s life of activism

From discontinued insulin pens to overpriced TB drugs, meet the young South African holding drug makers to account on behalf of patients

  • Sean Christie
10 min read
Novo Nordisk’s decision to stop supplying insulin pens to the South African government has drawn criticism across the health sector. Should SA force them and other licence holders to let different manufacturers make insulin pens too? (Canva)
AFRICA

Should SA force big drug makers to let others make insulin pens too?

The pens are running out in public hospitals because of Novo Nordisk’s decision to stop supplying it to the health department

  • Christina Pitt
10 min read