The World Health Organisation (WHO) has emphasised that an experimental vaccine is playing a major role in controlling the spread of Ebola...
Shirin Ashraf & Arthur Wickenhagen 11 Feb 2019
All organisms are unique. Each having a set of genetic instructions for their build-up and maintenance. This set of genetic instructions is contained in genes that makeup a genome...
Lamech Mwapagha 30 Jan 2019
There's a critical need to invest in a research & development (R&D) industry that could create a pipeline of jobs for science graduates in Africa...
5 Dec 2018
Access to medicines is at the core of universal health coverage (UHC), one of World Health Organisation's main priorities, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)...
30 Aug 2018
Africa urgently needs to develop its pharmaceutical sector to reduce its dependence on imported drugs and medical products...
2 Aug 2018
The next-generation workforce is set to drive positive change for Africa's enterprises...
3 Jul 2018
A new international partnership has committed funding for the discovery of new drugs for diseases endemic to Africa over the next two years...
29 Jun 2018
Clinical trials are the foundation of any new medicine. They allow scientists to test the efficacy and safety of a drug or therapy...
Swapan Kumar Patra 5 Jun 2018
The media is a key platform for dissemination of information around medications on the continent in Africa, where virtual spaza shops for drugs proliferate...
Nomfundo Dlamini 8 Mar 2018