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Unjani clinics were originally converted and equipped shipping containers provided by a large company as part of their Corporate Social Investment (CSI), but the model has grown to include over two hundred points of service scattered throughout the country.
AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE

How private initiatives are transforming South Africa’s health care landscape

The outdated statistic quoted by commentators is that 16% of the population are covered by medical schemes, and therefore 84% are dependent on the state

  • Gail Daus-van Wyk
5 min read
On trial: About 800 people are part of a coronavirus vaccine trial by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, headed by Rhulani Nhlaniki in South Africa. (Paul Botes/M&G)
BIOVAC INSTITUTE

Q&A Sessions: ‘My north star is the patient’

Rhulani Nhlaniki is Pfizer’s cluster lead for sub-Saharan Africa. As Pfizer starts phase III of the clinical trial of their Covid-19 vaccine candidate, he tells Malaikah Bophela…

  • Eyaaz Matwadia
7 min read