by webmaster | Oct 1, 2025 | Gen Med Blog
Exploring workforce gaps, training, and institutional oversight A resilient health system is built not only on infrastructure and resources but critically on skilled human capital and sound governance. In South Africa, persistent workforce shortages, uneven...
by webmaster | Sep 2, 2025 | Gen Med Blog
Aligning Industrial Strategy with Health Access Needs South Africa’s dependence on imported pharmaceutical products poses significant challenges to medicine security, pricing stability, and health system resilience. The COVID-19 pandemic and recurring global supply...
by webmaster | Aug 20, 2025 | Gen Med Blog
Access to medicines in South Africa is shaped by a complex intersection of regulatory frameworks, procurement mechanisms, pricing structures, supply chain logistics, and human resource capacity. While recent reforms have targeted specific challenges, such as...
by webmaster | Sep 26, 2023 | Gen Med Blog
We are continuing our discussion on the importance of solid-state characteristics of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) on the quality and therapeutic efficacy of solid oral and inhaled dosage forms, and in this post the emphasis will be on particle size...
by webmaster | Aug 21, 2023 | Gen Med Blog
In the first post in this series on pharmaceutical specifications, I mentioned that characteristics or quality attributes of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) are generally divided into those that must always be controlled (appearance, identification, assay,...
