Title:
South Africa sets aside more money for COVID-19 but lacks a spending strategy
Author:
Alex van den Heever, University of the Witwatersrand
Published:
The Conversation, 29 June 2020
https://theconversation.com/south-africa-sets-aside-more-money-for-covid-19-but-lacks-a-spending-strategy-141619
From the article:
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 19 broadly falls into these two areas: prevention and treatment. The two are closely interlinked. And there are severe shortcomings in both.