Articles for Nathan Geffen
Success against deadly drug-resistant TB in rural KZN
Number of cases has dropped dramatically following bunch of health interventions
News | 16 July 2016
Complementary medicine companies are destroying consumer protection
Series of court actions aimed at Advertising Standards Authority
By Harris Steinman and Nathan Geffen
Opinion | 30 May 2016
Treatment for everyone with HIV: what will it mean?
Patients will benefit and there will be fewer new infections
Explainer | 17 May 2016
Mbeki is wrong about death statistics
AIDS has for many years been by far the largest cause of death
Explainer | 14 March 2016
Clearing up two Mbeki misconceptions
There are two misconceptions by Mbeki and people defending him that I wish to debunk.
Explainer | 13 March 2016
Mbeki confirms he is an AIDS denialist
A virus can’t cause a syndrome, he says
Opinion | 7 March 2016
Mbeki’s reputation is not in tatters because he was aloof
It’s because his policies caused hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths
Opinion | 1 February 2016
The banal evil of drug pricing
Martin Shkreli was the most hated man on the internet for a brief time this week. His company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, pushed up the price of a medicine, pyrimethamine, used to treat a life-threatening disease from $13.50 (approx R185) to $750 (approx R10,250) a pill.
Nathan Geffen
Opinion | 23 September 2015