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- M Richter and Y Nokhepheyi.
- School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and African Centre for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Former researcher at the Health Justice Initiative, Cape Town, South Africa.
- S. Afr. Med. J. 2024 Aug 2; 114 (8): e1943e1943.
AbstractEffective pandemic decision-making depends on scientific expert evidence, transparency about public health policy decision-making, its rationales and the evidence on which it is based. The South African government laudably committed its COVID-19 response to be guided by science and evidence. Yet, the expert advice that it received was not always readily made available to the public. This submission analyses the time elapsed between the submission of COVID-19 Ministerial Advisory Committees memoranda to the Minister of Health, and the Department of Health's subsequent publication of these for the period August 2020 - January 2024. It also summarises the outcomes of the Health Justice Initiative's access to information legal action against the department on expert advice and government decision-making during the pandemic.
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