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IRELAND – AstraZeneca has announced that its rare disease group Alexion will invest €65 million (US$68.7M) to scale up its biologics manufacturing capacity and expand R&D efforts at its sites…
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USA – MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, has announced the launch of a new incubation program in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) called AWS Expand. The…
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AFRICA – The government of Sweden and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) have announced a partnership to accelerate progress in Africa toward the goals of sexual and reproductive health…
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SWITZERLAND –Novartis has said it will invest US$250 million to advance research and development of new treatments to combat neglected tropical diseases and malaria, as part of its commitment over…
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BELGIUM – The European Union is set to invest 890 million euros (US$936 million) in vaccine and drug production in Latin America and Caribbean countries, European Commission chief Ursula von…
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RWANDA – The German pharmaceutical company BioNTech has broken ground for the production site of its COVID-19 vaccine in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali. According to BioNTech, the facility, dubbed the African…
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RWANDA – Global leaders led by African Heads of State have announced the first in a series of pledges totaling US$4 billion to accelerate progress against Malaria and Neglected Tropical…
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RWANDA –Commonwealth Heads of Government and leaders from around the world are set to meet in Rwanda to make bold commitments toward ending malaria and neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The…
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AFRICA – A serious shortage of health workers in Africa is undermining access to and provision of health services even though countries in the region have made efforts to bolster…
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INDIA – Apollo Cancer Centres has collaborated with Datar Cancer Genetics to launch a revolutionary blood test that can detect breast cancers at early stages in asymptomatic individuals with high…
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