South Africa’s Biovac in new oral cholera vaccine deal
SOUTH Africa’s Biovac Institute has signed a licensing and technology transfer deal with the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) to develop
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World Health Organization
‘No confirmation that cough syrup killed 70 children’
PAP SAINE GAMBIA has not yet confirmed that toxic cough syrup was the cause of the deaths of 70 children
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COVID disrupted measles vaccinations in Africa and now cases are surging
EDWARD MCALLISTER and JENNIFER RIGBY CLUTCHING an umbrella, medical records and her two-year-old daughter, Kani Fall negotiated the brown puddles
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Mozambique had no data about snakebites. Our new study filled the gap – and the results are scary
EVERY year between 20,000 and 32,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa die after being bitten by snakes. That’s more than five
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End of COVID pandemic is ‘in sight’ -WHO chief
MANAS MISHRA THE world has never been in a better position to end the COVID-19 pandemic, the head of the
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Treating monkeypox like an STI may help control the outbreak, but stigma is a danger
THE recent monkeypox global outbreak, now declared by the World Health Organization as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
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Tigray war ignored because of racism: WHO boss
THE World Health Organization’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has suggested that racism is behind a lack of international attention being
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Exclusive: Rotavirus childhood vaccine shortage hits four African countries
JENNIFER RIGBY SUPPLIES of a vaccine to prevent the deadly rotavirus infection in children have either run out in Kenya,
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Centaurus: what we know about the new COVID variant and why there’s no cause for alarm
A new COVID variant has recently been detected in several countries including the UK, US, India, Australia and Germany. Called
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Kenya, World Health Organization launch emergency hub
THE Kenyan government and World Health Organization launched a medical emergency hub in Nairobi, the first in a network of
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