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South Africa's Medicines and Related Substance 1997 is a law enacted a compulsory license in order to fight HIV/AIDS epidemic. The intent of the Act was to reduce drug prices by allowing generic substitution of off-patent drugs, the parallel importation of on-patent drugs as well as price transparency.
The matter arose when the Transvaal High Court was requested to review and set aside the President’s decision to bring the South African Medicines and Medical Devices Regulatory Authority Act 1998 into operation on 30 April 1999. The purpose of the Act was to govern the registration and control of medicines for human and animal use, and to ...
Electoral Laws Amendment Act, 1970: 13: South-West Africa Constitution Amendment Act, 1970: 14: Part Appropriation Act, 1970: 15: Bible Society of South Africa Act, 1970: 16: Judges' Remuneration and Pensions Amendment Act, 1970: 17: General Law Amendment Act, 1970: 18: Wine and Spirits Control Amendment Act, 1970: 19: Bantu Laws Amendment Act ...
Zolelwa Sifumba, a South African doctor, was diagnosed with drug-resistant TB in 2012 when she was a medical student and endured 18 months of treatment taking about 20 pills every day in addition ...
In early 1997, Mbeki, who was then the Deputy President of South Africa, approached the other members of the African National Congress to pitch the idea of using a new anti-AIDS drug, developed in South Africa, called Virodene. The advantages over existing ARV drugs which proved appealing to Mbeki included being 200 times less expensive than ...
Act no. Short title 1: National Public Health Institute of South Africa Act, 2020: 2: Border Management Authority Act, 2020: 3: National Minimum Wage Amendment Act, 2020: 4: Division of Revenue Act, 2020: 6: Defence Amendment Act, 2020: 7: Appropriation Act, 2020: 8: Civil Union Amendment Act, 2020: 9: Science and Technology Laws Amendment Act ...
Ireland: Misuse of Drugs Act (Ireland) [58] [59] South Africa: Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 1992; Singapore: Misuse of Drugs Act (Singapore) Sweden: Lag om kontroll av narkotika (SFS 1992:860) Thailand: Psychotropic Substances Act (Thailand) and Narcotics Act; United Kingdom: Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 [44] and Drugs Act 2005 [60] United States ...
South Africa has exceptionally high rates of murder, gender-based violence, robbery and violent conflict. [104] A survey for the period 1990–2000 compiled by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ranked South Africa second for assault and murder (by all means) per capita and first for rapes per capita in a data set of 60 countries. [105]