Africa

Drug manufacturer Sanofi announced today that they will slash the price of a TB prevention drug set to hit the South African market. The price has been reduced by almost 70% to just under R230 (US$15).

The vaccine will be used as part of a clinical trial, but the aim is as much to help extinguish the long-running outbreak in the country’s northeast as it is to gather data on the effectiveness of the vaccine.

German pharmaceutical and chemicals firm, Bayer, has defended its Roundup herbicide saying it’s safe for use by farmers in the country.

The national health department has been forced to postpone a nationwide rollout of the latest blockbuster HIV treatment amid persistent concerns about what may be a low risk of birth defects linked to the drug’s use.

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Good health enables people to learn and earn, to start buinesses and to thrive.

The reductions in price aim to minimize the medical expenses of Moroccans.

Malaria, which kills one child globally every two minutes, is the top killer of children under five in the east African country.

The insecurity in this part of Congo, along with the government's inability to provide the most basic of services, have made people suspicious of efforts to ward off the virus.

Government has warned that pharmacies overcharging clients or selling medicines in United States dollars risk losing their operating licences.

Despite the development of an effective vaccine and treatments, health workers have struggled to stop the virus spreading in remote and conflict-hit areas of eastern Congo, where many locals are wary of the response effort.

The disorder is more common in North Africa than in other areas of the world.

An estimated 10,704 new cancer cases involving 4,520 males and 6,184 females were recorded last year in Rwanda.

Performance in South Africa’s two-tier health system – the public and the private – has been worsening for some time.

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