South Africa sets aside more money for COVID-19 but lacks a spending strategy
By: Alex van den Heever, University of the Witwatersrand In the short term, South Africa has enough beds. Getty Images The supplementary budget tabled last week by South Africa’s finance minister, Tito Mboweni, whose primary objective was to make more money available for the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, sheds no light on the relative prioritisation of prevention over treatment for COVID-19. The required health system response to COVID […]