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01 Mar Removing Barriers and Promoting Access to Health Products
1 March 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic turned the spotlight on the South African Health Products Regulator (SAHPRA), with many people expecting the regulator to approve medication that would see the end to the virus, but more often with limited understanding of the processes involved in reaching such a decision. Like many other organisations around the globe, the regulator had never been in a situation where it needed to urgently react to a pandemic of such magnitude.