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BHEKISISA: How Kwanele Asante’s 20-year fight for patients’ voices reached the UN

Reported by Daily Maverick · · Sean Christie

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You may not know her name, but South African lawyer and bioethicist Kwanele Asante has spent two decades pushing health institutions — from Soweto to the United Nations – to listen to the people their policies are meant to serve. Sean Christie traces a life defined, from birth, by healthcare.

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