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Source: Reuters.
BioNTech gets $145m funding for African vaccine plants

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Latest accreditations awarded by The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (NPC) Cohsasa
Latest accreditations awarded by The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (NPC) Cohsasa

COHSASA  28 May 2024

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Source: Reuters.
BioNTech gets $145m funding for African vaccine plants

 2 days

Doctors and medical practitioners under the Kenya Medical Practitioners Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) participate in a demonstration to demand payment of their salary arrears and the immediate hiring of trainee doctors, among other grievances, in Nairobi, Kenya, 16 April 2024. Reuters/Thomas Mukoya/File Photo
Kenyan government doctors sign agreement to end strike

 9 May 2024

Source: 123RF/svershinsky
South Korea: Junior doctors strike amid concerns over low doctor-to-patient ratio

 4 Mar 2024

File photo: A woman poses with a cigarette in front of BAT (British American Tobacco) logo in this illustration taken 26 July 2022. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
Nigerian competition watchdog fines British American Tobacco $110m

 28 Dec 2023

Source: Reuters.
Saudi Arabia to sign deals worth over $500m with African nations -minister

 10 Nov 2023

Source: City of Hope.
Breakthroughs in medicine: top virologist on the two most important developments for Africa

 2 Nov 2023

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AUC, Africa CDC, and Gavi forge strategic vaccine partnership

16 Oct 2023

Source: Supplied.
IPG Health partners with Fine, expanding Africa presence

15 Sep 2023

Source: Dutch runner Boas Kragtwijk.
Dutchman running from Amsterdam to Kyiv to buy ambulances for Ukraine

1 Aug 2023

Source: Reuters.
WHO says contaminated cough syrup sold in Cameroon

 20 Jul 2023

Heath tech is changing Africa. Source: Artem Podrez/Pexels
5 startups addressing Africa's healthcare gap

14 Jul 2023

Source: iStock
Illegal organ trade is more sophisticated than one might think - who's behind it and how it could be controlled

 13 Jul 2023

Source: Supplied.
Mastercard Foundation and IPD bolster the continent's capacity to produce vaccines

5 Jun 2023

Source: Daktaridudu/Wikimedia Commons)
Namibia declares outbreak of Crimean-Congo fever after patient dies

 25 May 2023

Woolworths recalls chicken viennas in South Africa and Botswana
Woolworths recalls chicken viennas in South Africa and Botswana

19 May 2023

Source: Reuters.
Ghana first to approve Oxford's malaria vaccine

13 Apr 2023

Source © Business Wire India The Merck Foundation Africa Media Recognition More Than a Mother Awards 2022 and Diabetes and Hypertension Awards 2022 winners were announced via via videoconference.
The Merck Foundation Africa Media Recognition Awards 2022 winners

28 Mar 2023

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Tanzania detects its first-ever cases of the highly fatal Marburg viral disease

 22 Mar 2023

Source: Marie Stopes
New coalition to increase access to cervical screening in sub-Saharan Africa

20 Mar 2023

Source: Reuters.
Medical charity MSF suspends operations in Burkina Faso to assess risk

20 Feb 2023

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Steady rise in demand for contraception among women, study shows

27 Jan 2023

Source: Reuters.
Cholera death toll passes 1,000 in Malawi as outbreak spreads

 25 Jan 2023

Source: Reuters. A health worker prepares a dose of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine in Dakar, Senegal February 23, 2021.
Senegal institute wins $50m in boost to Africa's vaccine capacity

 25 Jan 2023

Source: Reuters. China's foreign minister, Qin Gang addresses delegates at the inauguration of the new Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters, which China is building and equipping in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, January 11, 2023.
Africa should not be arena for international competition, says Chinese foreign minister

12 Jan 2023

Source: Reuters. Uganda health minister Jane Ruth Aceng addresses the media after receiving a shipment of 1,200 doses for Ebola vaccine candidates set to be used in a clinical trial at the National Medical Stores in Entebbe, Uganda, 8 December, 2022.
Uganda declares itself Ebola-free after swiftly turning tide on outbreak

11 Jan 2023

Source: Reuters.
Gambia lawmakers say Maiden to blame for child kidney injury deaths

22 Dec 2022

Source: Reuters.
Spread of cholera threatens eastern Congo camps of displaced persons

9 Dec 2022

PMI event sponsorship "tantamount to tobacco advertising" - civil society orgs
PMI event sponsorship "tantamount to tobacco advertising" - civil society orgs

7 Nov 2022

Air pollution second leading risk factor for death across Africa - report
Air pollution second leading risk factor for death across Africa - report

28 Oct 2022

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Gambia police link child deaths to cough syrup imported by US firm

 12 Oct 2022

Source: AfricaCDC.
US to apply Ebola screenings for recent Uganda visitors at 5 airports

 7 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters. An artist paints a mural as part of the "cholera" campaign to depict the suffering of cholera patients in Sanaa, Yemen; April 25, 2019.
Cholera outbreaks surging worldwide, fatality rates rising - WHO

 3 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni attends a news conference.
Ebola kills doctor in Uganda, first health worker killed in latest outbreak

 3 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters. Ugandan health workers speak to members of the community before carrying out the first vaccination exercise against the ebola virus in Kirembo village.
Uganda says Ebola caseload rises to 16 as outbreak grows

 27 Sep 2022

Anglo American commits $15m to Global Fund's Seventh Replenishment
Anglo American commits $15m to Global Fund's Seventh Replenishment

22 Sep 2022

Source: public health image library/CDC (public domain).
Child infected with Marburg virus dies in Ghana

 20 Sep 2022

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Ghana declares end of Marburg virus disease outbreak

 19 Sep 2022

Be ahead of the game
Be ahead of the game

 15 Sep 2022

Source: Supplied. Dr Allan Pamba, the Africa network lead of the EMEA-LATAM countries at Roche Diagnostics.
Co-designing the future of African healthcare

 8 Sep 2022

5 young African leaders shortlisted for Äänit Prize
5 young African leaders shortlisted for Äänit Prize

8 Sep 2022


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