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The SA pharmaceutical industry is expected to deliver R73bn in sales by 2025, according to Invest SA’s 2020 Fact Sheet published by the trade & industry department. That’s a significant increase on the predicted estimate of R51bn for this year alone, making pharma one of the most actively growing sectors in SA, and a big contributor to the country’s bottom line.
With the Covid-19 crisis and the race to develop an effective and safe vaccine, pharmaceutical companies and their research & development (R&D) divisions are under considerable pressure to find a silver bullet. This has placed them and the clinical trial process itself under the microscope...
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