8 years later, the facility has yet to be completed and South Africa was importing FMD vaccines from Botswana. OBP is still without a CEO, despite the institution showing a solid financial performance ...

As of Monday, February 17, eThekwini has recorded increased numbers of HFMD infections, seeing a spike from last week's outbreak. The health department assures residents that the situation is "under ...

South African lab technician Nozipho Mlotshwa was waiting for the test results for a potential HIV vaccine, which has eluded ...

When Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020, South Africa was caught short as it did not have the vaccine manufacturing capability. From its initial Covid case reported on March 5, 2020, the country quickl ...

This technology has the potential to transform the production of foot-and-mouth disease vaccines globally and could have a huge impact on the lives of livestock farmers and their families in countries ...

Gavi and IRC's REACH consortium administered 9 million vaccine doses, protecting against diseases such as measles and diphtheria Consortium negotiates access to reach 96% of communities in hard-to ...

Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping all aid to South Africa and offering refugee status to white South Africans. The order decried “government-sponsored race ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved British drug maker GSK’s combination vaccine to protect against meningococcal infection for use in people aged 10 through 25 years, the company ...

Kennedy Jnr as health secretary on Thursday, disregarding alarm from the medical community over his history of promoting vaccine misinformation and denying scientific facts. Known widely as “RFK ...

A trial viewed as the best hope of finding an effective HIV vaccine this decade has ended in failure in another major setback for the field. The PrEPVacc trial in East and Sothern Africa is ...

Swaminathan says the WHO would welcome a partnership with them because developing a vaccine based on a newer construct from scratch does take time. While South Africa has developed an mRNA vaccine ...

Glacier FarmMedia – It was February 25, 1952, and the world suddenly changed for Canadian cattle producers. Six thousand square miles of southern Saskatchewan, encompassing Regina and Weyburn ...