{"id":12331,"date":"2025-09-29T23:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-health-authorities-roll-out-new-plan-to-tackle-falsified-medicines\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:25:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:25:44","slug":"sa-health-authorities-roll-out-new-plan-to-tackle-falsified-medicines","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-health-authorities-roll-out-new-plan-to-tackle-falsified-medicines\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Health authorities roll out new plan to tackle falsified medicines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The plan is to combat substandard and falsified medical products.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO defines falsified products as misrepresenting their identity, while substandard products fail quality standards.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the conference underway at the Protea Hotel in Rhodesfield, east of Johannesburg, Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi says SA is a leader in this effort with the National Action Plan emphasising political commitment, resources and sustained action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough this bold initiative, SA is positioned among the first countries globally to operationalise a comprehensive strategy against substandard and falsified medical products. The National Action Plan aims to strengthen prevention, detection and response mechanisms through a coordinated multi-sectoral action as guided by the National Action Plan draft handbook developed for this purpose by the WHO.<\/p>\n<p>This milestone demonstrates SA\u2019s leadership and commitment to safeguarding access to quality, safe and effective medical products.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12332,"template":"default||default||default||default||default||default||default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-12331","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"In collaboration with the National Department of Health (DOH) and the World Health Organisation (WHO), the South African (SA) Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) is piloting a national action plan.||In collaboration with the National Department of Health (DOH) and the World Health Organisation (WHO), the South African (SA) Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) is piloting a national action plan.||In collaboration with the National Department of Health (DOH) and the World Health Organisation (WHO), the South African (SA) Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) is piloting a national action plan.||In collaboration with the National Department of Health (DOH) and the World Health Organisation (WHO), the South African (SA) Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) is piloting a national action plan.||In collaboration with the National Department of Health (DOH) and the World Health Organisation (WHO), the South African (SA) Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) is piloting a national action plan.||In collaboration with the National Department of Health (DOH) and the World Health Organisation (WHO), the South African (SA) Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) is piloting a national action plan.||In collaboration with the National Department of Health (DOH) and the World Health Organisation (WHO), the South African (SA) Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) is piloting a national action plan.||In collaboration with the National Department of Health (DOH) and the World Health Organisation (WHO), the South African (SA) Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) is piloting a national action plan.","published_date":null,"news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17995,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12331\/revisions\/17995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=12331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}