Healthcare systems in low- and middle-income countries are undergoing major changes. Countries are growing richer and losing aid eligibility, and disease burdens are shifting to noncommunicable chronic diseases. Technological and knowledge breakthroughs mean more and more of a country’s disease burd

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed healthcare systems around the world. One of important issues that COVID-19 clearly emphasizes is the critical importance of information on health technology and policy. Handling the COVID-19 pandemic was difficult at the beginning because humanity all faced the

Abstract Many countries seek to secure efficiency in health spending through establishing explicit priority setting institutions (PSIs). Since such institutions divert resources from frontline services which benefit patients directly, it is legitimate and reasonable to ask whether they are worth

With HTA gaining ground as a tool for priority-setting globally, it comes as no surprise that, alongside many other questions on the development of the mechanism, countries are trying to find ways to adapt HTA to their particular healthcare system and context. Such was the case the HITAP team found

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought the need for regional collaboration on disease prevention and control to the fore. The review by Durrance-Bagale et al offers insights on the enablers, barriers and lessons learned from the experience of various regional initiatives. Trans

The Delta variant that was first detected in September 2020 in India led to a major outbreak around April 2021. This variant crowded out others due to its higher transmission rate, and it soon became a concern for the rest of the world before the recent surge, on account of the Omicron variant, ecli

A website offering parents advice on vaccines has been ordered to remove information about the MMR jab after claiming it could be linked to autism.Babyjabs.co.uk said the three-in-one jab may be causing “up to 10%” of autism in children in the UK.But the Advertising Standards Authority ruled the cla

COVID-19 has dominated headlines for over a year now and that doesn’t look likely to change in 2021. Health economic and epidemiological modelling has played a key and well-publicised role in informing policymaking decisions across the globe in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These models and pro

SA IS in the process of preparing for a National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme to reach universal health coverage by 2025. Attaining this goal in a resource-constrained environment will rely in part on understanding which interventions should be prioritised and how resources should be allocated.Our

Watson said that the FDA improperly denied the company’s shared exclusivity on the generic version despite Watson directly following directions received from the regulator.As a result of the FDA’s decision, approval could be delayed for up to six months, Watson said.Watson planned to launch its gene