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AFRICA – African manufacturers have called upon global vaccine-purchasing mechanisms to purchase a minimum of 30% of their vaccines in line with Africa’s New Public Health Order. The resolution follows…
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USA Pfizer has acquired a Brisbane tech startup for a whopping US$179 million after studies showed the software could identify a COVID-19 infection from a person’s cough, in what has…
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SOUTH AFRICA – The Government of South Africa, through the African Renaissance Fund (ARF), has teamed up with the African Vaccination Acquisition Trust (AVAT) to contribute a total of 2,030,400…
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EGYPT – Egypt’s Minister of Health and Population Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar has inaugurated a fully automated cooling logistical complex for the storage and distribution of vaccines at the Egyptian Holding Company…
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ZAMBIA – The Ministers of Health of the African Union (AU) Member States in the Southern Region have called for the operationalization of the Lusaka Call-to-Action to strengthen Public Health…
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IVORY COAST – The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a US$20 million concessional investment to support the second phase of the Covid-19 Off-Grid Recovery…
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USA – Pfizer has reached an agreement to supply up to six million courses of its COVID-19 antiviral Paxlovid to the Global Fund to get treatment to low and middle-income…
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SOUTH AFRICA – The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has authorized the use of Novavax’ protein-based vaccine as a two-dose primary series for active immunization to prevent COVID-19…
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AFRICA – Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, Ghana, Laos, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda and South Africa have been selected to join the new programme to provide oral antiviral treatment for COVID-19…
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ZIMBABWE – The Government of Zimbabwe (GoZ), through the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC), has partnered with the World Health Organization (WHO) to support the ongoing effort to…
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