Refugee emergency
We are grateful to the many people who helped with the humanitarian relief effort from 23 May to 2 June. We are in the process of winding down our relief effort.
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Medicine Prices
People in South Africa obtain medicines either through the public health system or from private dispensing doctors and pharmacies. Patients receive medicines for free from the public health system, but have to put up with extraordinarily long queues and inconsistent service. Private sector patients are usually insured by a medical scheme to which they pay a monthly premium.
Pharmaceutical companies sell medicines at a single exit price to the private sector. The state buys medicines for the public sector, usually but not always via a tender process.
- Public sector antiretroviral (and other) tender prices (PDF file) as of 8 January 2008 (supplied by Kwazulu-Natal Provincial Depot)
- Private sector antiretroviral (and soon to be other) single exit prices (updated approximately weekly)
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