Our health systems endured a heavy – often invisible – cost during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the country was focused on the battle against this pandemic, long-fought gains against other infectious diseases were being rolled back. And none more so than with tuberculosis. The Lancet notes that South Africa has one of the highest tuberculosis (TB) burdens...
SAHTAC was invited to attend the Second SAMRC Sub-Saharan Africa Funders Forum. SAHTAC was represented by John Mdluli from the secretariate. The forum brought together Not-for-Profits, Philanthropies, Development Banks and government departments from around the continent and the globe. The meeting was held in Cape Town on 20 to 22 November 2022. The aim of...
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Under the umbrella of SAHTAC and Campaigning for Cancer a first regional Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi)-endorsed workshop was held on October 26, 2022, in Johannesburg. It was co-hosted by the HTAi’s Public and Citizen Involvement working group. The workshop focused on patient and public involvement (PPI) in HTA or healthcare decision making in Southern...
On 26th October 2022, the South African Health Technologies Coalition (SAHTAC), through its Regulatory Harmonisation work, supported the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) to host a webinar titled: SAHPRA unpacks global accolade upon receiving WHO Maturity Level 3. More than 337 people dialed into the webinar which was characterized by many questions and...
The National Health Research Strategy Priority Framework Workshop was held online as a Webinar on the 19th of October 2022. The main objective of the workshop was to conduct a retrospective explanatory analysis to examine the policy determination that is how the policy got to be on the agenda, how it was initiated and formulated,...
SAHTAC participated in the first joint World Health Summit co-hosted with WHO on 16 to 18 October in Berlin, Germany. The Summit brought together the most prominent names in global health from all sectors in all regions of the world. Held under the patronage of German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, Senegal’s...
The Covid-19 pandemic not only exposed the weaknesses in our healthcare system but also revealed the deep-seated issues that remain prevalent with pharmaceutical companies responsible for developing lifesaving technology. The deep-seated issues pertaining to access to medical resources in third-world countries, where many countries are often left behind in the process of accessing lifesaving technology....
On the 22nd of August 2022, SAHTAC held the Gender, Diversity and Inclusion workshop spearheaded by its Positioning & Capacity Building Task Team. This was done in the month of August in celebration of women and the theme was mainly to raise awareness of gender and diversity issues for coalition members. We are called to...
Across the globe, research helps find the root cause of the health challenges or diseases in our society, identify ways to improve behaviours of the affected community, and find solutions to our health issues. Clinical research has critical in bringing new vaccines to our health system. Clinical research – aimed at evaluating a medical, surgical, or...
