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Europe: Covid-19 contract-transparency ruling fails to cloud Von der Leyen's future

18 Jul 2024

A person walks past a Dis-Chem Pharmacy outlet in Cape Town, South Africa 22 February 2024. Source; REUTERS/Esa Alexander/file photo.

Retail

Dis-Chem annual profit down 1.6%

31 May 2024

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

BioNTech gets $145m funding for African vaccine plants

Jennifer Rigby and Ludwig Burger 30 May 2024

Source: AstraZeneca.

Healthcare

AstraZeneca admits to rare Covid-19 vaccine side effects in legal filing

30 Apr 2024

Healthcare

Mounting evidence shows that Covid-19 leaves its mark on the brain

Ziyad Al-Aly 26 Mar 2024

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: City of Hope.

Healthcare

Breakthroughs in medicine: top virologist on the two most important developments for Africa

Oyewale Tomori 2 Nov 2023

Source: Nobel Prize/Youtube

Healthcare

Nobel Prize for mRNA pioneers amid jab controversy

Katja Hamilton 6 Oct 2023

Healthcare

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

Katja Hamilton 5 Sep 2023

Healthcare

SA Health Ministry hands over confidential Covid-19 vaccine contracts

Katja Hamilton 1 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: Moderna.

Healthcare

Moderna reports 92% interim profit drop

Katja Hamilton 17 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.

Healthcare

Mastercard Foundation and IPD bolster the continent's capacity to produce vaccines

5 Jun 2023

Healthcare

CDC orders discard of 12.5 million doses of J&J Covid-19 vaccine

19 May 2023

Source: The Center for Disease Control.

Healthcare

CDC's Rochelle Walensky to bow out

8 May 2023

Healthcare

Consortium sparks debate over intellectual property of mRNA vaccines manufactured in SA

Katja Hamilton 21 Apr 2023

Source: Supplied.

Healthcare

UK social investment firm launches BrightFlag Healthcare

24 Apr 2023

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Legal

What is happening in Africa's IP landscape

Marco Vatta and Megan Dinnie 14 Apr 2023

Adapting to innovation in the healthcare sector beyond just tech

Healthcare

Adapting to innovation in the healthcare sector beyond just tech

Kevin Aron, Issued by Stone 17 Mar 2023

Source: Supplied. The delegation of global Pfizer executives, and members of the US Consulate and the Trade, Industry and Competition are pictured here with Minister Ebrahim Patel.

Healthcare

Global president of Pfizer opens Cape's new Pfizer and Biovac facility

10 Mar 2023

Source: GIBS Business School. Chairman of the new Resource Mobilisaton Fund.

Finance

Introducing the new Resource Mobilisation Fund

Katja Hamilton 9 Mar 2023

Source: Reuters. A health worker prepares a dose of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine in Dakar, Senegal February 23, 2021.

Healthcare

Senegal institute wins $50m in boost to Africa's vaccine capacity

Nellie Peyton 25 Jan 2023

Source Reuters.

Healthcare

BioNTech ready to ship first mRNA vaccine factory kit to Africa

22 Dec 2022

Healthcare

SA's Aspen gets $30m grant to make vaccines

Nqobile Dludla 12 Dec 2022

Source: Dis-Chem

Healthcare

Acquisitions pay off as Dis-Chem posts higher half-year profit

Nqobile Dludla 2 Nov 2022

Teaching someone to fish: the false dichotomy of relief and development

ESG & Sustainability

Teaching someone to fish: the false dichotomy of relief and development

Professor Mark Shrime 27 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

Serum Institute to produce Ebola vaccine for use in Uganda outbreak

Aaron Ross 17 Oct 2022

Healthcare

The challenges and possibilities inherent in turning Africa into a research and development hub

Dr Tadesse T Mekonen 17 Oct 2022

Source: Reuters. Packages of Bio Farma's Covid-19 vaccine are seen at Command Center and Vaccine Distribution Management System of Bio Farma in Bandung, West Java province, Indonesia.

Healthcare

Indonesia in talks with African countries to export its homemade Covid shot

10 Oct 2022

Healthcare

SA to destroy millions of vaccines

19 Sep 2022

Healthcare

"There should be no secrecy in a pandemic" - Health Justice Initiative's senior researcher

13 Sep 2022

Healthcare

Second death linked to J&J Covid-19 vaccine confirmed

13 Sep 2022

Healthcare

Introducing the EMS vaccination programme on wheels

13 Sep 2022

Source: Supplied.

Healthcare

SA's Aspen, India's Serum Institute sign vaccines deal for Africa

Promit Mukherjee 1 Sep 2022

Healthcare

Moderna sues Pfizer

30 Aug 2022

Source: Reuters. A worker at Aspen Pharmacare, is seen at its Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine facility in Gqeberha.

Healthcare

Aspen Covid vaccine lines risk going idle as J&J orders dwindle

Promit Mukherjee and Wendell Roelf 11 Aug 2022

Source: Supplied. Reuters. A healthcare worker administers the Pfizer coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine to a man, amidst the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 variant Omicron, in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Healthcare

SA reports first death causally linked to Covid vaccine

Alexander Winning and Mark Potter 5 Aug 2022

Healthcare

SA's health minister tests positive for Covid-19

20 Jul 2022

Claimed pioneer of mRNA technology files patent infringement lawsuit against BioNTech

Healthcare

Claimed pioneer of mRNA technology files patent infringement lawsuit against BioNTech

20 Jul 2022

Source: Supplied.

Healthcare

SA companies begin scrapping their Covid vaccine mandates

Ray Mahlaka 13 Jul 2022

Source: BioNTech.

Healthcare

Pfizer and BioNTech announce FDA approval of their Covid-19 vaccine for young teens

13 Jul 2022

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HR & Management

Can employees refuse to enter a workspace with unvaccinated co-workers?

11 Jul 2022

Rhiza Babuyile opens R5m community clinic in Diepsloot

ESG & Sustainability

Rhiza Babuyile opens R5m community clinic in Diepsloot

8 Jul 2022

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Healthcare

New agreement paves way for development of first African-owned Covid-19 vaccine

27 Jun 2022

Source: Supplied. World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (centre) at the recent WTO Ministerial meeting - at the MC12 Closing Press Conference, 17 June 2022.

Finance

Understanding the WTO Ministerial Meeting: What just happened and what's next?

Sean Doherty and Aditi Sara Verghese 24 Jun 2022

Finance

Local vaccine production boosts economic transformation and job creation in South Africa

Patrick Tippoo 22 Jun 2022

Finance

World Bank approves SA's R7.6bn loan for Covid-19 vaccines

15 Jun 2022