AHRI.Community perspectives on drug promotion on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 2022-2023
South Africa, 2022
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AHRI.Drug.advertising.workshop.coding.matrix.Nov.2023
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Rujeko Samanthia Chidawanyika, Janet Seeley, Julia Ndlazi
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Data file: Drug advertising workshop coding matrix Nov 2023
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28
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255
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| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Males 1 female | 1 |
3.6%
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| 4 males 6 females | 2 |
7.1%
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| I don’t think it was well managed cause even the signs and symptoms they were talking about from the media and stuff | 1 |
3.6%
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| I have just forgotten what its called. That’s where you get updates on the daily cases | 1 |
3.6%
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| I think last year the elderly people were incentivized/got paid to vaccinate. How does it happen that you get paid to take treatment that should help you. Maybe this is a plot to kill us | 1 |
3.6%
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| I think there was some herbs. I don’t remember the name that if you steam using that nerve | 1 |
3.6%
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| SAHPRA will then do a research look in interms of the toxicity level | 1 |
3.6%
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| aaam Covid wasn’t first reported globally | 1 |
3.6%
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| each and every house hold had a different way to manage this. If at you house you use the oximeter and use…mix certain drugs | 1 |
3.6%
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| if they were doctors reporting to have used it and the patient cured out of it | 1 |
3.6%
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| in such a way that hospitals that were at privilege to get that are hospitals like King Edward because they have specialists on board | 1 |
3.6%
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| it is what they used in the past to heal sicknesses. Sometimes the elderly are unable to take themselves to the clinic so they end up mixing what they already have at their disposal. | 1 |
3.6%
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| its found in pharmacies and then there is the house remedies where you mix lemon | 1 |
3.6%
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| not that I am against them but we should not be bombarded with them. The fact that companies | 1 |
3.6%
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| online advertisement | 1 |
3.6%
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| so that was not really clear. You have to say ‘ come vaccinate | 1 |
3.6%
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| that’s where we find information especially young South African who are very active on Facebook. | 1 |
3.6%
|
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| the doctors were prescribing different cocktails for different patients cause they were not presenting the same symptoms. Yes we all had Covid but the symptoms we were presenting were not the same so obviously the cocktails that you are going to get maybe are not going to be the same . | 1 |
3.6%
|
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| the remedies you find at the chemist also help. It's not that I have a problem with traditional remedies | 1 |
3.6%
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| they knew about this | 1 |
3.6%
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| they targeted if I’m excluding the healthcare professionals was the seniors so I don’t think the teenagers or the young youth were targeted at all. | 1 |
3.6%
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| this was not going to help so there was a lot of confusion and the videos that were circulating on social media and everywhere that this is wrong this is not right so maybe.. | 1 |
3.6%
|
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| usually other companies as well | 1 |
3.6%
|
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| vaccines helped because I did not get sick. I was also aware that the vaccine has a small trace of the virus | 1 |
3.6%
|
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| we are advertising this first of all its still under section 21 but I feel like they paid people to do it on their behalf because on interviews was like all over…everywhere ( group speaks together) we even now knew which website to check if they have stock. We were informed that it is on Takealot | 1 |
3.6%
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| we started hearing about new company names now Astrazeneca. I work in the Pharmacy but I have never heard of Astrazeneca. So ja I think they were opportunistic shame | 1 |
3.6%
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| you would get an information leaflet | 1 |
3.6%
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Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.