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Healthcare

Breakthroughs in medicine: top virologist on the two most important developments for Africa

Oyewale Tomori 2 Nov 2023

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation campus is pictured in Seattle, Washington, US 5 May 2021. Reuters/Lindsey Wasson/File Photo

Medical Research

Gates gives $40m to boost access to mRNA vaccines in Africa

Jennifer Rigby and Wendell Roelf 9 Oct 2023

Source: Nobel Prize/Youtube

Covid-19

Nobel Prize for mRNA pioneers amid jab controversy

Katja Hamilton 6 Oct 2023

Public Health

South Africa, Germany sign agreement for vaccine production

15 Sep 2023

Source: Supplied.

Healthcare

Abbott's uninterrupted streak: 398th consecutive quarterly dividend declared

22 Jun 2023

Covid-19

CDC orders discard of 12.5 million doses of J&J Covid-19 vaccine

19 May 2023

Public Health

Consortium sparks debate over intellectual property of mRNA vaccines manufactured in SA

Katja Hamilton 21 Apr 2023

Cape Town-based biotechnology company, Afrigen, appoints new board chair

Medtech

Cape Town-based biotechnology company, Afrigen, appoints new board chair

Issued by Irvine Partners 26 Jan 2023

Healthcare

The challenges and possibilities inherent in turning Africa into a research and development hub

Dr Tadesse T Mekonen 17 Oct 2022

Covid-19

Moderna sues Pfizer

30 Aug 2022

Source: Reuters/Shelley Christians. A production scientist works with samples at the Afrigen Biologics' site in Cape Town.

Emergency Medicine

SA's Afrigen partners with US on mRNA vaccine research

Bhargav Acharya, Nellie Peyton and Josie Kao 12 Jul 2022

Source: FreePik.

Covid-19

New agreement paves way for development of first African-owned Covid-19 vaccine

27 Jun 2022

Source: Supplied: Petro Terblanche, managing director of Afrigen,

Medical Research

#AfricaMonth: Injecting the continent - and the world - with hope

Katja Hamilton 20 May 2022

mRNA Tech transfer hub beneficiaries announced

Technology

mRNA Tech transfer hub beneficiaries announced

21 Feb 2022

Covid-19

World first as SA lab makes mRNA Covid vaccine using Moderna data

18 Feb 2022

Medical Research

SAMRC sponsors landmark Covid-19 vaccine trial in collaborative bid to combat HIV

13 Jan 2022

Covid-19

SAMA delighted at the availability of booster shots

24 Dec 2021

South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout is picking up pace. Luca Sola/AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19

Reluctant to be vaccinated for Covid-19? Here are 6 myths you can put to rest

30 Jul 2021

Source: ©Leigh Prather

Covid-19

South Africa's vaccine quagmire, and what needs to be done now

Alex van den Heever, Imraan Valodia, Shabir A Madhi & Willem Venter 5 Jul 2021

Source: ©Stepan Popov

Covid-19

Covid-19 vaccine plant in Africa? This is what it would take to build one

23 Jun 2021

World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks as he attends the World Health Assembly (WHA) amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Geneva, Switzerland, 24 May 2021. Christopher Black/World Health Organisation/Handout via Reuters

Pharmaceuticals

WHO setting up hub to make Covid-19 vaccines in South Africa - Tedros

22 Jun 2021

Covid-19

How the coronavirus mutates and what this means for the future of Covid-19

Ed Rybicki, Anna-Lise Williamson, Don Cowan & Stephanie G Burton 17 Feb 2021

Vaccine rollout: Here is where South Africa stands

Public Health

Vaccine rollout: Here is where South Africa stands

James Stent 22 Dec 2020

Why the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine is now a global game changer

Covid-19

Why the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine is now a global game changer

Michael Head 24 Nov 2020