Africa

Unlike established vaccines that offer near-complete protection, this new one is only about 40% effective.

Commercially made morphine is on average nearly six times more expensive in many poor counties than it is in wealthy ones.

A high-level meeting of policymakers, regulators and industry experts in the field of pharmaceuticals and trade opened in Addis Ababa, Thursday to discuss a bold path towards affordable pharmaceuticals through leveraging the African Continental Free Trade

The new vaccine, which has passed clinical trials but has never been tested in a real-world setting, will be administered to 50,000 people in Goma, a city of two million on the Rwandan border.

Foreign direct investment in the pharmaceutical industry is set to increase the availability of drugs in the country’s hospitals.

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.