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Source: © 123rf As Covax closes on 31 December 2023, reflects on its successes and challenges in the bid to overcome inequity have underscored the clear need for the world to be better prepared the next time a viral threat with pandemic potential emerges

Healthcare

3 lessons from Covax as the organisation draws to a close

20 Dec 2023

Source: UNAids.

Healthcare

Kiara Health takes vital first step to making woman-controlled HIV prevention a reality

1 Dec 2023

Healthcare

Pharma giants set SA vaccine price tag at $734m, confidential contracts reveal

Katja Hamilton 5 Sep 2023

Healthcare

#BRICS2023: Pandemic fund in focus for Brics Bank

Katja Hamilton 30 Aug 2023

Healthcare

South African High Court orders release of secret vaccine contracts

Katja Hamilton 21 Aug 2023

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

Covid-19 vaccine scheme for poorest has $2.6bn left to spend as pandemic recedes

Jennifer Rigby 26 Jun 2023

Source: Supplied. Stellenbosch University's new Biomedical Research Institute, home to Ceri, is the most advanced research facility of its kind on the African continent.

Healthcare

Abbott partners with Ceri to address viral threats

2 May 2023

Source: Supplied. Mary Rodgers, a virus hunter and scientist at Abbott who works with the Abbott Pandemic Defense Coalition.

Healthcare

#HIVToday: Abbott's top scientist speaks to staying one step ahead of a constantly mutating virus

Katja Hamilton 28 Apr 2023

Healthcare

Tackle TB, prevent future pandemics, report finds

22 Mar 2023

Healthcare

Roche teams with US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to strengthen lab systems

6 Mar 2023

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

ESG & Sustainability

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

22 Sep 2022

Source: Supplied. African scientists receiving training in genomics surveillance at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP), South Africa.

Healthcare

Covid-19 variants in Africa were introduced from abroad, study finds

16 Sep 2022

Source: Supplied. Jonathan Keytel, head: Healthcare Transformation and Sustainability at Roche Diagnostics.

Healthcare

Africa Day: Driving healthcare access across borders

25 May 2022

Source: Supplied: Petro Terblanche, managing director of Afrigen,

Healthcare

#AfricaMonth: Injecting the continent - and the world - with hope

Katja Hamilton 20 May 2022

Healthcare

WHO Pandemic Treaty: The makings of a New World Order?

Katja Hamilton 8 Mar 2022

Source: Supplied. ©Gates Archive/Sylvain Cherkaoui.

Healthcare

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Wellcome pledge $300m to combat Covid-19

21 Jan 2022

Travel bans aren't the answer to stopping new Covid variant Omicron

Tourism & Travel

Travel bans aren't the answer to stopping new Covid variant Omicron

Anthony Zwi 30 Nov 2021

Source: ©The Global Fund. A march through Agogo town in Ghana to educate citizens on malaria

Healthcare

Covid-19's adverse impact on HIV, TB and malaria programmes

8 Sep 2021

African countries must include all migrant populations in their vaccination plans. Thierry/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Healthcare

Excluding migrants undermines the success of Covid-19 vaccine rollouts

Rebecca Walker, Jo Vearey & Nicholas Maple 2 Aug 2021

Energy and Africa Month unite: Public Sector Leaders (PSL) May edition out now

Marketing & Media

Energy and Africa Month unite: Public Sector Leaders (PSL) May edition out now

Issued by Topco Media 19 May 2021

A Covid-19 test in Utah. The country’s pandemic response has been politicised, making comprehensive changes to public health more difficult.
AP Photo/Rick Bowmer

Healthcare

Poor US pandemic response will reverberate in healthcare politics for years, health scholars warn

Simon F Haeder & Sarah E Gollust 4 Nov 2020

During the Covid-19 pandemic, WHO is supporting the Ghana Health Service in their efforts to continue providing essential medical services to the population at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, Ghana. Photo: WHO / Blink Media - Nana Kofi Acquah

Healthcare

5 quick wins to re-invent Africa's health systems

Rachel Ndirangu & Rosemarie Muganda-Onyando 23 Oct 2020

Healthcare

Covid-19 shows the world needs physicians who can look beyond medical charts

Abebe Bekele & Agnes Binagwaho 4 Jun 2020

Tourism & Travel

Covid-19 impacts global passport strength

8 Apr 2020

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Healthcare

WHO puts influenza plan in place

12 Mar 2019

Agriculture

Bird flu in Uganda highlights gaps in Africa's plans to manage pandemics

Jeanette Dawa 15 Feb 2017

Source: World Health Organisation

Healthcare

After Ebola: West African ministers discuss public health cooperation

16 Nov 2016

Healthcare

Dept confirms first case of swine flu in SA

Gabi Khumalo 19 Jun 2009

Healthcare

World Health Assembly to discuss flu plan

Gabi Khumalo 18 May 2009

Healthcare

Swine flu holds no threat for SA

Gabi Khumalo 8 May 2009

Healthcare

INDONESIA: Bali bird flu drill tests pandemic preparedness

6 May 2008

Egyptian poultry sellers ignore live sales ban despite new bird flu cases

Healthcare

Egyptian poultry sellers ignore live sales ban despite new bird flu cases

15 Jan 2008