Africa

A market Study.

The genesis of the East African Community’s Medicines Regulatory Harmonization initiative.

Novartis’s Sandoz division will not profit from 15 generic drugs it is making available to developing countries to treat symptoms of COVID-19 for the pandemic’s duration.

Noncommunicable diseases, many of which are avoidable, are having a significant impact on the health of South Africans and the South African healthcare system.

One in every 1,000 people in Kenya is likely to fall prey to cancer. This incidence is expected to rise by 70 percent in the next two decades.

The Africa Union calls for an “equitable and timely distribution” of a Covid-19 vaccine by partnering with the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access, or Covax.

According to the World Health Organization, there were hundreds of thousands of new cases of multidrug-resistant TB in 2018, only half of which can be successfully treated.

Some African countries have been criticized for not issuing accurate data on COVID-19.

NorLevo is among the drugs that are not covered by insurance companies in Rwanda, therefore the prices are manipulated by private pharmacists.

Experts explain rise in prices of pharmaceuticals in Nigeria

A cross-sectional survey in eight counties.

The World Health Organization is warning that Madagascar's herbal tonic its president claims can cure patients of COVID-19 has no scientific basis.

Spending billions on a coronavirus vaccine to save trillions in lost economic output. Plus, oil prices and green bonds.

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.

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".