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Source: Reuters.

HIV/AIDS

HIV vaccine trial in Africa halted after disappointing data

8 Dec 2023

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

Ghana first to approve Oxford's malaria vaccine

13 Apr 2023

Medical Research

SAMRC sponsors landmark Covid-19 vaccine trial in collaborative bid to combat HIV

13 Jan 2022

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Covid-19

South Africa's vaccine quagmire, and what needs to be done now

Alex van den Heever, Imraan Valodia, Shabir A Madhi & Willem Venter 5 Jul 2021

Study shows that the Novavax vaccine is effective against the dominant variant of Covid-19 in South Africa. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Covid-19

Results from Novavax vaccine trials in the UK and South Africa differ: why, and does it matter?

Ina Skosana 2 Feb 2021

A healthcare worker fills a syringe with a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. Nick Potts/PA Images via Getty Images

Covid-19

Some key questions answered on Covid-19 vaccines for African countries

Ina Skosana & Ozayr Patel 19 Jan 2021

Vaccine rollout: Here is where South Africa stands

Public Health

Vaccine rollout: Here is where South Africa stands

James Stent 22 Dec 2020

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Healthcare

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14 Dec 2020

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Covid-19

Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine trial commences in South Africa

11 Nov 2020

Pausing enrolment into a clinical trial is not unique to the Covid-19 vaccine. Luca Sola/AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19

Why halting the Covid-19 vaccine trial is part of the process

Ina Skosana 11 Sep 2020

Post-Covid, there’s an opportunity to form lateral research partnerships driven by the needs of African communities. GettyImages

Medical Research

International research collaborations: how can we shift the power towards Africa?

Salome Maswime, Kevin Marsh & Rifat Atun 20 Jul 2020

A general view during the country’s first human clinical trial for a potential Covid-19 vaccine in Soweto, South Africa. Felix Dlangamandla/Beeld/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Covid-19

Covid-19 vaccine trial in South Africa: everything you need to know

Shabir Madhi 14 Jul 2020

A volunteer receives an injection from a medical worker during the country’s first human clinical trial for a potential vaccine against Covid-19 in Soweto, South Africa. Felix Dlangamandla/Beeld/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Covid-19

Covid-19 vaccine: the challenges of running a trial in the middle of a pandemic

Jeffrey Mphahlele 7 Jul 2020

Covid-19

SA's first Covid-19 vaccine trial starts

23 Jun 2020

Doctors Without Borders supporters march in protest to the American Consulate in Johannesburg in 2012 over lack of funding to fight HIV. Photo by Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images

Covid-19

TB, HIV and Covid-19: urgent questions as three epidemics collide

Emily Wong 26 Mar 2020

Malabo, Equatorial Guinea

Coal, Oil & Gas

Relief for Equatorial Guinea oil & gas services companies

24 Mar 2020

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom at an Ebola treatment centre in Itipo. Getty images/ Junior D. Kannah

Infectious Diseases

The DRC is on the road to being Ebola free: how it got here

5 Mar 2020

New HIV infections remain high. Shutterstock

HIV/AIDS

The search for an effective HIV vaccine continues

14 Feb 2020

It’s important for scientists to have the most thorough understanding of HIV. Shutterstock

HIV/AIDS

What the discovery of a new HIV strain means for the pandemic

Linda-Gail Bekker 7 Feb 2020

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organisation director-general, speaking on Ebola at the UN’s Geneva headquarters. EPA/Martial Trezzinni

Infectious Diseases

Why it's dangerous for Tanzania to withhold information about Ebola fears

Abdhalah Ziraba 7 Oct 2019

A health worker prepares to administer Ebola vaccination in the north-western Democratic Republic of the Congo.
EPA-EFE/STR

Infectious Diseases

The Uganda vaccine trial: how African researchers are tackling Ebola

Yap Boum 8 Aug 2019

There is currently no established cure for Ebola – could antibody treatments be the answer? AHMED JALLANZO/EPA

Infectious Diseases

Guinea pigs cured of Ebola with antibodies, raising hopes for treatment in humans

Pramila Rajil & Alain Townsend 4 Apr 2019

Malaria vaccine trial gets green light

ESG

Malaria vaccine trial gets green light

12 May 2017

Malaria education in Malawi. Source: WHO/S Hollyman

Malaria

#WorldMalariaDay: Vaccine trial to commence in 2018

25 Apr 2017

Healthcare

Viruses, vaccines and superbugs: The biggest stories of 2016

LAURA LOPEZ GONZALEZ 30 Dec 2016

Could we mass-produce HIV immunity?

HIV/AIDS

Could we mass-produce HIV immunity?

Penny Moore, Lynne Morris & Nono Mkhize 28 Nov 2016

Malaria

Uganda's Makerere University receives AMANET grant for malaria vaccine trial

28 Aug 2008

HIV/AIDS

New HIV vaccine trial halted

21 Jul 2008

Infectious Diseases

Vaccine to prevent life-threatening pneumonia

Issued by InZalo Communications 5 Mar 2008

HIV/AIDS

SA vaccine trial volunteers contributing to AIDS fight

11 Sep 2007

Infectious Diseases

New data on the performance of meningitis vaccine in West African children

19 Jun 2007