News In Brief: Access to Tech

A campaign to increase access to new technology for people with insulin dependent diabetes is gaining momentum in South Africa.

The South African Diabetes Advocacy, an alliance of all the organisations for people with diabetes in the country, will lodge an appeal this week with the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) to make flash glucose monitors a Prescribed Minimum Benefit (PMB) for all people with Type 1 diabetes, both in state and private care.

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