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The World Health Organization says Africa will NOT be a testing ground for any coronavirus vaccine. The statement comes in response to what the organisation calls racist comments made by two French doctors.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has spent the last few decades working to improve global health through his philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The World Health Organization chief angrily slammed recent comments made by scientists suggesting a vaccine for the new coronavirus should be tested in Africa as "racist" and a hangover from the "colonial mentality".

How will pharma price their products against COVID-19?

There’s no conclusive scientific evidence that hydroxychloroquine can treat the infection from the novel coronavirus.

Poor nations scramble for funding from IMF and World Bank to fight the pandemic. Will rich nations foot the bill?

The spread of Coronavirus, COVID-19, has now hit almost all African countries.

The new coronavirus has now infected 1 million people across the world, a milestone reached just four months after it first surfaced in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

According to the government of India’s own estimates, India ranks third worldwide for pharmaceutical production by volume and 13th by value.

A group of G-20 leaders are preparing an international response to the impact of the coronavirus crisis in Africa that would include debt relief and financial aid.

A Closer Look at Demand-Side Incentives for a Vaccine

Products sent are ‘unrelated to coronavirus’.

New WHO Guide to help countries expand access to essential medicines.

Measles is on the rise globally, but Congo is worst hit.

Being a South African, I have witnessed the impact laws allowing price controls and parallel imports can have on people’s health.