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Source: Reuters.

HIV/AIDS

Trump's aid cuts stop South African HIV vaccine trials in their tracks

Catherine Schenck 19 Feb 2025

Laurent Muschel, HERA Director General, and Jean Kaseya, Africa CDC Director General, stand near mpox vaccines as first batches arrive at N'Djili International Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 5 September 2024. Reuters/Justin Makangara/File Photo

Health & Social Welfare

Africa's top health official presses US to resume health aid

Jennifer Rigby 6 Feb 2025

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Healthcare

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17 Dec 2024

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

Africa health body calls on Trump to honour US vaccine pledges

Anait Miridzhanian 8 Nov 2024

Source: Ngaa Murombedzi, AHF regional advocacy and policy manager for Southern Africa.

Healthcare

The WHO is nearing a Global Pandemic Agreement - the impact on SA and the Global South

6 Nov 2024

Source: Supplied. Akin Jimoh, chief editor at Nature Africa.

Healthcare

Historic first: Africa hosts Inclusive Health Research Awards

Akin Jimoh 25 Oct 2024

Source: Reuters.

Infectious Diseases

Congo launches its first mpox vaccination campaign

Djaffar Al Katanty 8 Oct 2024

Source: Supplied.

Pharmaceuticals

CFAO acquires Opella Healthcare South Africa

2 Oct 2024

Vials of the Jynneos smallpox and monkeypox vaccine are placed on a table during a clinic offered by the Pima County Department of Public Health at Abrams Public Health Center in Tucson, Arizona, US, 20 August 2022. Reuters/Rebecca Noble/File Photo

Health & Social Welfare

African CDC: More than $800m pledged for mpox response

Anait Miridzhanian 27 Sep 2024

Source: Reuters.

Infectious Diseases

Gavi to buy 500,000 mpox vaccine doses from Bavarian Nordic

Jennifer Rigby 19 Sep 2024

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

Congo brings forward launch of mpox vaccine drive

Sonia Rolley 17 Sep 2024

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

Africa CDC confident it can raise $600m for mpox response

Anait Miridzhanian 17 Sep 2024

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

WHO clears Bavarian Nordic's vaccine for mpox, sets up access scheme

Manas Mishra and Mrinmay Dey 16 Sep 2024

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

Morocco reports first Mpox case

13 Sep 2024

Public Health

Pharmacists International Federation: Global vaccine supply in the balance

4 Sep 2024

Source: National Institute for Communicable Diseases.

Public Health

Mpox: No global lockdowns, emphasis on increased education, vigilance, airport screening and monitoring

Katja Hamilton 24 Aug 2024

Public Health

Health Department: Mpox under control, stay vigilant

21 Aug 2024

SADC Tourism Alliance: Southern Africa remains low-risk for mpox

Travel

SADC Tourism Alliance: Southern Africa remains low-risk for mpox

21 Aug 2024

Source: National Institute for Communicable Diseases.

Public Health

Mpox outbreak in Africa was neglected – it could now turn into the next global pandemic

21 Aug 2024

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

Emergent to donate 50,000 vaccine doses to address mpox outbreak in Africa

20 Aug 2024

Healthcare

WHO declares mpox outbreaks in Africa a global health emergency

15 Aug 2024

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

Congo authorities approve mpox vaccines to try to contain outbreak

1 Jul 2024

Source: Wikipedia.

Infectious Diseases

South Africa reports new mpox cases; deaths rise to three

26 Jun 2024

Healthcare

1 Mpox fatality, 4 in recovery

13 Jun 2024

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

BioNTech gets $145m funding for African vaccine plants

Jennifer Rigby and Ludwig Burger 30 May 2024

A view shows a part of Sidi El Barrak dam at low water levels, in Nafza, west of the capital Tunis, Tunisia, 7 January 2023. Reuters/Jihed Abidellaoui

Climate Change

Climate change is the biggest human health risk, says Africa's disease boss

30 Nov 2023

Source: City of Hope.

Healthcare

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

Oyewale Tomori 2 Nov 2023

Covid-19

Africa's reliance on imported Covid-19 test kits threatens right to health

1 Feb 2023

Public Health

World Health Organization to phase out use of the term "monkeypox"

29 Nov 2022