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WHO to Establish a Council for Accelerating Development of TB Vaccine

WHO to Establish a Council for Accelerating Development of TB Vaccine By Gift Briton The World Health Organization (WHO) plans to establish Tuberculosis (TB) Vaccine Accelerator Council to speed up the licensing and use of effective novel vaccines against the disease. Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General announced during a high-level panel at the World Economic […]

Countries Urged to Share COVID-19 Virus Sequences

Countries Urged to Share COVID-19 Virus Sequences By Joyce Ojanji Although virus sequencing is vital to detect and track new variants in the COVID-19 pandemic, sharing this information must be stepped up globally to help in enabling the development of tests, and vaccines against the disease, World Health Organization (WHO) says. According to the organziation, […]

Ebola Disease Outbreak Declared Over in Uganda

Ebola Disease Outbreak Declared Over in Uganda By Gift Briton The Ebola disease outbreak in Uganda is over. This comes barely four months after the first case was confirmed in 2022. “Uganda has shown that Ebola can be defeated when the whole system works together, from having an alert system in place to finding and […]

Reduced Price for Multidrug-resistant TB Treatment

Reduced Price for Multidrug-resistant TB Treatment A new agreement has been signed between Viatris, a global healthcare company, MedAccess, and TB Alliance to reduce the price of pretomanid, a drug used to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) by 34%. Pretomanid is part of two new treatment regimens with high efficacy and shorter treatment durations recently recommended […]

03 Jan, 23

Kenya: Sickle Cell Anaemia Clinics Bringing Relief to Kilifi Patients

Kenya: Sickle Cell Anaemia Clinics Bringing Relief to Kilifi Patients By Daniel Wako Having a child is perceived as happiness to parents and the community at large but how sad and painful does it feel to parents to see their children cry in pain due to a crisis caused by a condition that cannot be […]

16 Dec, 22

African Countries Urged to Invest in Stronger Health Systems

African Countries Urged to Invest in Stronger Health Systems By Mary Hearty Many African countries continue to feel the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, which not only exerted enormous pressure on health systems but also sounded the alarm on the need to reform and revitalize the continent’s health system. In response to this gap, Dr. […]

Gender Equity Crucial in Achieving Universal Health Coverage

Gender Equity Crucial in Achieving Universal Health Coverage By Gift Briton To achieve universal health coverage, experts urge that there is a need to put women in leadership roles including policy-making, budgeting, planning, and implementation for healthcare. Speaking during a plenary session under the theme, “Women in Health” at the ongoing Conference on Public Health […]

New HIV Vaccine Development Approach Promising

New HIV Vaccine Development Approach Promising By Mary Hearty The phase 1 clinical trial of a novel strategy to develop an effective HIV vaccine shows that the vaccine induced the targeted response in 97% (35 out of 36) of those who were vaccinated. The researchers behind the strategy are drawn from four institutions including the International AIDS Vaccine […]

DNDi: New Drug for Sleeping Sickness Coming Soon

DNDi: New Drug for Sleeping Sickness Coming Soon By Gift Briton Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) and Sanofi have co-developed a single oral dose(Acoziborole) treatment that could help eliminate sleeping sickness disease with the drug showing a success rate of up to 95% from Phase II/III study investigating its safety and efficacy. Acoziborole, unlike […]

23 Nov, 22

Fifteen Innovators to Compete for the 2023 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation

Fifteen Innovators to Compete for the 2023 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation By Gift Briton A shortlist of 15 African entrepreneurs and their pioneering technologies aimed at environmental rehabilitation, education, and human health and safety have been selected for the 2023 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, founded by the Royal Academy of Engineering. The 2023 […]