Join ASP and the Drs. Gantsho for a brief analysis of current SA and US affordable healthcare system reforms and how these reforms will deal with the HIV pandemic. South Africa is considering legislative framework reforms to “replace and repeal” the Medical Schemes Act that currently regulates private health insurance industry in order to implement national health insurance (NHI).

Dr. Monwabisi Gantsho is a medical doctor and consultant at Afris Health and Technologies in Johannesburg and Pretoria, South Africa. He received his MBChB* from kwaZulu Natal University, formerly the University of Natal, in Durban, South Africa. Dr. Gantsho has extensive experience in the healthcare industry, in both private and corporate sectors, representing general practitioners and specialists in the South African Medical Association (SAMA) and lobbying government institutions, regulatory bodies, and healthcare actuaries and funders. His research interests include the global economics of health care and a comparison of the Obamacare health reforms with the regulatory frameworks of the South African National Health Insurance Implementation (NHI).

Dr. Moloko Ramashala-Gantsho is a medical advisor and health risk manager for MMI (health risk management) in Pretoria, South Africa. A trained physician and clinician, she received her MBChB at the Medical University of Southern Africa. Her teaching interests include HIV/ AIDS Community Health from the South African perspective and health technology assessments in the real world. Additionally, she is interested in developing a simulation and technology based curriculum for health sciences and nursing students in South African universities and the impact of health care worker training in the development of the South African National Health Insurance Implementation (NHI).

*MBChB is the Bachelor of Medicine/ Bachelor of Surgery, the equivalent of the MD in countries that follow the British System for medical school.