SOMALIA – Somalia’s Federal Government and members of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) have introduced extensive measures to curb the ongoing poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) outbreak in the country.…
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Africa to secure US$113.4M funds from investors to set up drugs regulator
AFRICA – Africa is set to receive funding of over €100M (US$113.4 million) in the next five years from investors to set up an African Medicines Agency (AMA) to boost…
Read MoreModerna, IAVI begin clinical trials for experimental mRNA HIV vaccine
USA – Moderna has begun testing an HIV vaccine that employs the same ground-breaking mRNA technology as its Covid vaccine. The US pharmaceutical giant its vaccine. The first participants were…
Read MoreGates Foundation, Wellcome Trust pledge US$300 million for vaccine development
USA – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust, a global charity foundation, have each pledged US$150 million to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to…
Read MoreBenshi.ai signs MOU with Ethiopian Public Health Institute to enhance nutrition research
ETHIOPIA – The Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) and benshi.ai have announced a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)with benshi.ai to improve public health research outcomes in Ethiopia through the use…
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