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Dolly Parton, Queen of country music, dies at 80

Music

Dolly Parton, Queen of country music, dies at 80

Chloe Posthumus 2 days

A health worker is dressed up in personal protective equipment (PPE) at the Evangelical Medical Centre as agencies intensify efforts to contain a new Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus strain, in Bunia, Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo. Image credit: Reuters/Gradel Muyisa Mumbere

Infectious Diseases

CEPI's $60m speeds up race to develop Ebola Bundibugyo vaccine

Jennifer Rigby, Mariam Sunny and Julie Steenhuysen 2 Jun 2026

Source: Pixabay.

Covid-19

Leadership shakeup at Moderna ahead of major vaccine rollouts

Katja Hamilton 8 Nov 2024

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

BioNTech gets $145m funding for African vaccine plants

Jennifer Rigby and Ludwig Burger 30 May 2024

Covid-19

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

Katja Hamilton 5 Sep 2023

Source: Moderna.

Covid-19

Moderna reports 92% interim profit drop

Katja Hamilton 17 Aug 2023

Covid-19

WHO closely monitors Covid variant amid mutation concerns

Katja Hamilton 15 Aug 2023

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.

Covid-19

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

10 Oct 2022

Covid-19

Moderna sues Pfizer

30 Aug 2022

Source: Reuters/Shelley Christians. A production scientist works with samples at the Afrigen Biologics' site in Cape Town.

Emergency Medicine

SA's Afrigen partners with US on mRNA vaccine research

Bhargav Acharya, Nellie Peyton and Josie Kao 12 Jul 2022

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

Medical Research

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

Katja Hamilton 20 May 2022

Source: REUTERS

Covid-19

Moderna to seek emergency authorisation for Covid shot for children younger than six

23 Mar 2022

Source: Moderna

Covid-19

Bancel says he's working to get Moderna vaccine in Hong Kong

18 Feb 2022

Covid-19

World first as SA lab makes mRNA Covid vaccine using Moderna data

18 Feb 2022

Covid vaccines: African countries need to fix their distribution chains

Distribution

Covid vaccines: African countries need to fix their distribution chains

Jonathan Munemo 9 Feb 2022

Covid-19

Combined Covid-19 and flu booster could be available within two years

18 Jan 2022

Medical Research

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

13 Jan 2022

Source: TBWA in Times Square, New York

Advertising

TBWA named Adweek Global Agency of 2021

7 Dec 2021

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Covid-19

New vaccine tailored to Omicron can be ready in 100 days

28 Nov 2021

Source: ©Igor Daniel

Healthcare

Breakthrough malaria vaccine offers to reinvigorate the fight against the disease

Eunice Anyango Owino 11 Oct 2021

Bridging the Covid-19 vaccine gap

Covid-19

Bridging the Covid-19 vaccine gap

15 Sep 2021

South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout is picking up pace. Luca Sola/AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19

Reluctant to be vaccinated for Covid-19? Here are 6 myths you can put to rest

30 Jul 2021

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Covid-19

Study: Lower antibody activity against delta variant at single dose - but vaccines still work

Zania Stamataki 28 Jul 2021

World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks as he attends the World Health Assembly (WHA) amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Geneva, Switzerland, 24 May 2021. Christopher Black/World Health Organisation/Handout via Reuters

Pharmaceuticals

WHO setting up hub to make Covid-19 vaccines in South Africa - Tedros

22 Jun 2021

Beware of Covid-19 vaccine scams

Internet

Beware of Covid-19 vaccine scams

21 May 2021

26 million vaccine doses mobilised through Global Citizen's Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite The World

Music

26 million vaccine doses mobilised through Global Citizen's Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite The World

Issued by OnPoint PR 11 May 2021

Global Citizen announces Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, as campaign chairs of Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World

Events

Global Citizen announces Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, as campaign chairs of Vax Live: The Concert to Reunite the World

Issued by OnPoint PR 28 Apr 2021

Hospital staff in Lagos, Nigeria, administer the AstraZeneca vaccine. AP Photo/Sunday Alamba

Covid-19

How to get Covid-19 vaccines to poor countries - and still keep patent benefits for drugmakers

Dalindyebo Shabalala 16 Apr 2021

Solar energy is an invaluable resource in rural areas like this facility in Gambia. Gavi/2018/Guido Dingemans

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

Solar technologies can speed up vaccine rollout in Africa. Here's how

Cyrus Sinai & Rob Fetter 23 Mar 2021

Dr Cyprian Ngong, a staff member of National Hospital, Abuja, receives Covid-19 vaccine. Adam Abu-basha/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Covid-19

Nigeria at sixes and sevens on Covid-19 vaccine rollout

Solomon Bakarey 15 Mar 2021

Kenya’s health minister Mutahi Kagwe next to the country’s first batch of Covid-19 vaccines at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. EPA-EFE/Daniel Irungu

Covid-19

The ins and outs of Kenya's Covid-19 vaccine rollout plan

Catherine Kyobutungi 8 Mar 2021

The past, the present and the yet-to-come

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The past, the present and the yet-to-come

Issued by Dentsu 18 Feb 2021

Covid-19

How the coronavirus mutates and what this means for the future of Covid-19

Ed Rybicki, Anna-Lise Williamson, Don Cowan & Stephanie G Burton 17 Feb 2021

Covid-19

Healthcare workers to receive J&J jab

10 Feb 2021

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Covid-19

Covid vaccine weekly: developing boosters for new mutations

Rob Reddick 8 Feb 2021

Distribution

Safeguard procurement, distribution and administration of vaccines against corruption

2 Feb 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

Tourism & Travel

SA hospitality, tourism industry calls on government to fast track vaccine deployment

4 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

Professor Felicity Burt

Covid-19

SARS, MERS research paved way for rapid development of Covid-19 vaccines

8 Dec 2020

Covid-19

Covid-19 vaccine trials in Africa: what's promising, and what's problematic

Benjamin Kagina 2 Dec 2020

To suppress the Covid-19 pandemic, tens of millions of South Africans would have to be vaccinated. Nothing at that scale has been done here before. Photo: Armin Kübelbeck (CC-BY-SA via Wikimedia Commons)

Covid-19

Vaccinating tens of millions of people will be very difficult

James Stent & Nathan Geffen 27 Nov 2020

Why the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine is now a global game changer

Covid-19

Why the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine is now a global game changer

Michael Head 24 Nov 2020