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@spotlightnsp.bsky.socialReposted by @spotlightnsp.bsky.socialINSIDE THE BOX | Pharmaceutical sciences expert Dr Andy Gray has been writing regular columns for Spotlight examining how South Africa's medicines system works and where the gaps are. Find out more: tinyurl.com/3ehda5m9
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@spotlightnsp.bsky.socialINSIDE THE BOX | Pharmaceutical sciences expert Dr Andy Gray has been writing regular columns for Spotlight examining how South Africa's medicines system works and where the gaps are. Find out more: tinyurl.com/3ehda5m9
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@spotlightnsp.bsky.socialICYMI | Precious Matsoso's advice for navigating difficult conversations is refreshingly human: stay calm, be patient and keep working towards understanding. Sometimes, she says, the best way to ease the tension is simply to break into song.
@spotlightnsp.bsky.socialDID YOU KNOW | South African health and medicines law does not clearly define what is meant by a “medicines shortage”. Dr Andy Gray zooms in on how governments can monitor and plan for medicine shortages.
@opennewswire.orgReposted by @spotlightnsp.bsky.socialFrom AI safety to global health challenges, here's what made waves on Open Newswire last month.
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@spotlightnsp.bsky.socialSA'S CANCER STORY | It isn’t always easy to know what to believe when it comes to cancer. In part 2 of a Daily Maverick and Spotlight special series on cancer, we ask whether cancer cases are on the increase in South Africa, and why.
@spotlightnsp.bsky.socialICYMI | South Africa's cancer story is a special series of articles jointly produced by Spotlight and Daily Maverick. In this first story, we speak with rugby referee Aimee Barrett-Theron and cancer warrior Joyce Witbooi.
@spotlightnsp.bsky.socialOP-ED | We can keep writing new policies and passing new laws and launching new reforms, but until we confront the human frailties that undermine every system we build, progress will evade us, argues Dr Claire Botha.
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@spotlightnsp.bsky.socialDO YOU KNOW THEM? What connects many of the women behind some of South Africa’s important health stories is not that their journeys have been easy. It is that they keep showing up: tinyurl.com/mu3ssbc5
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@spotlightnsp.bsky.socialJUST PUBLISHED | All medicines and treatments have to go through lengthy safety and efficacy testing, but this is particularly tricky – and often delayed – for babies. These complexities are worth exploring and grappling with.
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@spotlightnsp.bsky.socialReposted by @spotlightnsp.bsky.socialTRAILBLAZER | TIME magazine named Precious Matsoso on its TIME 100 Health 2026 and 100 Most Influential People in the World 2026 lists. She tells Spotlight how she helped shape some of the most consequential health policy negotiations in SA and globally.
@spotlightnsp.bsky.socialReposted by @spotlightnsp.bsky.socialSWITCHED OFF | South Africa's HIV & TB Healthcare Worker Hotline has been suspended. What are the implications in a country where HIV and TB remain deeply interconnected and persistent public health crises?
@spotlightnsp.bsky.socialReposted by @spotlightnsp.bsky.socialTesting more people who report TB symptoms at public sector clinics is one of the most effective things we can do to reduce rates of TB disease and death, according to a major new modelling study.
@spotlightnsp.bsky.socialReposted by @spotlightnsp.bsky.socialSA's CANCER STORY | Two women, two breast cancer journeys. Rugby referee Aimee Barrett-Theron and cancer warrior Joyce Witbooi, share their stories in the first instalment of a new Daily Maverick and Spotlight special series on cancer in South Africa.
www.spotlightnsp.co.za/2026/09/28/s...
@spotlightnsp.bsky.socialSA's CANCER STORY | Two women, two breast cancer journeys. Rugby referee Aimee Barrett-Theron and cancer warrior Joyce Witbooi, share their stories in the first instalment of a new Daily Maverick and Spotlight special series on cancer in South Africa.
www.spotlightnsp.co.za/2026/09/28/s...
@spotlightnsp.bsky.socialTesting more people who report TB symptoms at public sector clinics is one of the most effective things we can do to reduce rates of TB disease and death, according to a major new modelling study.
@spotlightnsp.bsky.socialSWITCHED OFF | South Africa's HIV & TB Healthcare Worker Hotline has been suspended. What are the implications in a country where HIV and TB remain deeply interconnected and persistent public health crises?
@spotlightnsp.bsky.socialTRAILBLAZER | TIME magazine named Precious Matsoso on its TIME 100 Health 2026 and 100 Most Influential People in the World 2026 lists. She tells Spotlight how she helped shape some of the most consequential health policy negotiations in SA and globally.
@spotlightnsp.bsky.socialONCE A MONTH HIV PREVENTION PILL | Aspen will not be manufacturing the lenacapavir HIV prevention injection, and will instead focus on producing alimatravir, an experimental HIV prevention pill.
@spotlightnsp.bsky.socialKILLER DISEASE | The reasons cryptococcal meningitis continues to take a toll on people living with HIV are varied and complex. Here's some of the key takeaways: tinyurl.com/4bunjacy
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