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| 24.09.2024 | A Global Call to Action: Nourishing the Future of Children and Communities | In a world where the stakes are high, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation shines a spotlight on a pressing issue: child malnutrition. At the recent Goalkeepers 2024 event, held during the United Nations General Assembly week, leaders fr... |
| 24.09.2024 | US to donate 1 million mpox vaccine doses to halt outbreak in Africa | WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden will announce on Tuesday (Sep 24) the donation of 1 million mpox vaccine doses and at least US$500 million to African countries to support their response to the outbreak, according to a senior administrati... |
| 24.09.2024 | Gates Foundation Celebrates Children's Health and Nutrition Champions at Goalkeepers 2024: Recipe for Progress | Honorees include Brazil's President Lula and 10 leaders working to improve health and nutrition in their communities
NEW YORK, Sept. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- At its event, Goalkeepers 2024: Recipe for Progress, the Bill & Melinda Gates ... |
| 17.09.2024 | Gates Foundation Report Calls for Targeted Global Health Spending to Save Millions of Children from Malnutrition and Disease | New modeling shows 40 million more children will suffer from hunger's worst effects by 2050 due to climate change, but immediate action could instead boost health, spur economic growth
SEATTLE, Sept. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In its eighth a... |
| 11.09.2024 | DR Congo gets 50,000 mpox vaccine delivery from US | KINSHASA: Democratic Republic of Congo received on Tuesday (Sep 10) 50,000 more vaccine doses from the United States to fight the country's mpox epidemic, adding to some 200,000 donated by the European Union.
The DRC is at the epicentre of ... |
| 29.08.2024 | WHO grants Gavi and UNICEF green light to procure Mpox vaccines ahead of EUL ruling | The World Health Organization (WHO) has given its approval for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and UNICEF to initiate the procurement of vaccines to combat mpox, despite the Emergency Use Listing (EUL) decision still pending.
In an official sta... |
| 26.08.2024 | Germany to donate 100,000 mpox vaccine doses to combat outbreak in Africa | BERLIN: Germany will donate 100,000 mpox vaccine doses from its military stocks to help contain the outbreak on the African continent in the short term as well as provide help to the affected countries, said a government spokesperson on Mon... |
| 23.08.2024 | The United States and India Strengthen Health Cooperation through Localization | New Delhi, Delhi, India
The United States and Government of India are applying insights gained from the COVID-19 pandemic to enhance health outcomes in communities across India. Recently in New Delhi, the United States Agency for Internatio... |
| 17.08.2024 | EU public health body lifts mpox risk alert level after new strain found in Sweden | STOCKHOLM: The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control on Friday (Aug 16) raised its risk level for mpox, a day after global health officials confirmed one case of infection with a new strain of the virus in Sweden, the first out... |
| 17.08.2024 | EU public health body raises mpox risk alert level after new strain found in Sweden | STOCKHOLM: The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control on Friday (Aug 16) raised its risk level for mpox, a day after global health officials confirmed one case of infection with a new strain of the virus in Sweden, the first out... |
| 15.08.2024 | GAVI statement on MPOX emergency in Africa | Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance continues to be deeply concerned about the escalating mpox emergency on the African continent. We welcome recently announced measures by our partners at the African Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Afri... |
| 02.08.2024 | Seasoned chairpersons and board members back life sciences startups |
Anaveon, a clinical-stage company specializing in developing treatments for diseases with immune system dysfunction, focusing on biologics that modulate cytokine functions to provide therapeutic benefit has appointed former Chair and CEO o... |
| 18.06.2024 | The Battle Against Mutant Flu and Deadly Mpox | The CDC tracks drug-resistant "dual mutant" flu strains in the US, while South Africa faces its first mpox fatality and scrambles for a vaccine.
In the ongoing war against infectious diseases, the Centers for Disease Control and P... |
| 14.06.2024 | Gavi Board Approves 2030 Strategy; New Vaccines; Key decisions on regional manufacturing and health security initiatives | The Gavi Board today approved the Vaccine Alliance’s strategy for the five years running from 2026 to 2030. African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator and Day Zero Financing Facility parameters were also approved, along with the expansion of... |
| 12.06.2024 | First Mpox Fatality Prompts South Africa to Get Immediate Vaccine | By Joseph Henry
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With South Africa's first recorded death from mpox, which is a 37-year-old man, the c... |
| 18.03.2024 | INFUSE 2024 launched by Gavi, Seedstars to foster climate-resilient health systems | INFUSE 2024, a global call for applications for innovations to strengthen health systems against climate threats and enhance immunization delivery, has been launched by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in collaboration with Seedstars.
The goal o... |
| 06.01.2024 | Pandemic Preparedness for CDMOs: Will It Be Different Next Time? | When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs) became indispensable partners to the biopharmaceutical companies that developed vaccines, rapidly producing billions of urgently needed vaccine dos... |
| 30.03.2023 | To deal with the next pandemic, the FDA needs an Office of Preparedness and Response | New evidence of the spillover of the avian flu virus, known as H5N1, to some mammals is again raising alarm bells, though for experts familiar with the virus, “none of them ever stopped worrying about H5N1.”
The recent death of a Cambodian ... |
| 09.03.2023 | As US mulls vaccinating poultry for bird flu, chicken industry could stand in the way | Since last year, the current outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has resulted in the killing of nearly 60 million farmed chickens and turkeys, and many epidemiologists and food industry figures believe vaccinating the birds... |
| 11.01.2023 | Another Ebola outbreak, another missed opportunity for preparedness | When I learned that an outbreak of Ebola was declared in Uganda last fall, I had a flashback to 2014 when I was working at Merck and an outbreak of Ebola disease caused by a different species of the virus emerged in full force in West Afric... |
| 30.11.2022 | Racing to develop Africa’s next-gen vaccines before new pandemic | Cape Town, South Africa – It was early December 2021 and infections from a new coronavirus variant, Omicron, were ripping through South Africa, where 90,000 people had already died from the pandemic.
COVID-19 cases had surged 255 percent in... |
| 28.11.2022 | TELEHEALTH USAGE IN ASIA PACIFIC FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV INCREASING, BUT DATA PRIVACY AND LACK OF PERSONAL CONTACT STILL SEEN AS A BARRIER TO WIDER USE | - Half of the people living with HIV (PLHIV) and individuals at-risk (IARs) surveyed in the region increased their usage of telehealth services over the past year; this is driven by the availability of new telehealth services during pandemi... |
| 19.11.2022 | Healthlane was meant to make hospitals obsolete. Now the startup is battling to stay in business
TechCabal’s 2021 Year-End report
Success! | Alain Nteff wanted to make hospitals obsolete through his startup Healthlane, but his unbridled spending and erratic decisions have led to the company’s end. TechCabal spoke with over 10 past employees and obtained documents that revealed t... |
| 05.11.2022 | Why most African countries still battle MALARIA today | One reason it’s so persistent is that the malaria parasite has a very complex life cycle. It involves many different developmental stages and multiple hosts (mosquitoes and humans). Photo: PEXELS
Malaria remains one of the most devastating ... |
| 21.09.2022 | MGC Pharmaceuticals Successfully Developed Herbal-inspired Products for Treatment of Long COVID and COVID-19 | LONDON, Sept. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- MGC Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (LSE: MXC), (ASX: MXC), (OTC: MGCLF), is a European based bio-pharma company, focused on developing and supplying affordable (Accessible) and Ethically Produced Plant Inspired ... |
| 13.09.2022 | Vaccine guarantees can help prevent the resurgence of polio | The first case of polio in the U.S. in a decade has triggered intense debate and unease. On Friday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a disaster after polio virus was detected in the wastewater of a third county in the state.
Health offic... |
| 15.05.2022 | Bill Gates knows philanthropy alone can’t solve inequality | The WHO estimates that the Covid-19 pandemic has killed almost 15 million people worldwide — not just from the virus, but as an indirect result of the crisis, such as being unable to get other kinds of medical care because hospital systems ... |
| 09.05.2022 | Strengthening Gavi is a way forward for global vaccine equity | The Biden administration’s upcoming Covid-19 summit will shine a spotlight on the global failure to achieve vaccine equity. Although nearly 12 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered globally and 80% of people in high-inco... |
| 11.04.2022 | Covid-19 roundup: Gavi raises $4.8B in pledged funds; Japan cancels order of 40M remaining AstraZeneca shots | Now roughly two years into the Covax initiative, the global vaccine alliance group Gavi has been trying to raise new money — and now has received pledges of $4.8 billion in funding.
The promised investment was announced on ... |
| 09.04.2022 | Gavi Receives $4.8 Bn In Funding Pledges For Covax | |
| 07.02.2022 | '2022 Sunhak Peace Prize Focuses on Vaccine Equity' | SEOUL, South Korea, Feb. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On February 7, 2022, the Sunhak Peace Prize Committee (Chairman Jose Manuel Barroso, former President of the European Commission) will announce the 2022 Sunhak Peace Prize laureates are Dame ... |
| 01.02.2022 | Novavax could offer unvaccinated Americans a new option, if regulators agree | Following a long-awaited submission of data to the Food and Drug Administration last month, Novavax announced Monday that it had formally filed a request for emergency use authorization of its protein-based COVID-19 vaccine in the United St... |
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| 20.01.2022 | Covid-19 roundup: Generic Merck pill to be made for lower-income countries; Gavi says it needs a $5B boost — report | The UN-backed Medicines Patent Pool has inked deals with 27 generic manufacturing companies to make cheaper versions of Merck’s Covid-19 antiviral molnupiravir for distribution in low- and middle-income countries.
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| 11.01.2022 | 13 big questions about Biden’s response to Omicron, as Congress prepares to grill Fauci, Walensky, and other top officials | Amid another coronavirus surge, and facing pressure over everything from testing access to school closures, top Biden administration health officials are headed to Congress Tuesday for a hearing on the Covid-19 pandemic.
The hearing, held b... |
| 23.12.2021 | Arrowhead adds newest facility to its Midwest hub in RNAi drug production push | Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals has purchased 13 acres of land in Wisconsin’s Verona Technology Park and will build a 140,000-square-foot drug manufacturing facility.
The company will spend between $200 million and $250 mil... |
| 23.12.2021 | Covid-19 roundup: Novavax says vaccine shows 'broad cross-reactivity' against Omicron; France cancels order on Merck’s antiviral pill — report | Novavax said Wednesday that initial data suggest its Covid-19 vaccine demonstrated “broad cross-reactivity against Omicron and other circulating variants” after two doses — though neutralization was around 4-fold low... |
| 23.12.2021 | Cincinnati plays host to new cell, viral vector manufacturing site from Expression Therapeutics | Expression Therapeutics’ new cell and viral vector manufacturing site is up and running in Cincinnati.
The 43,000 square-foot site will provide end-to-end R&D capabilities and both early phase- and commercial-scale ... |
| 23.12.2021 | FDA authorizes new Merck Covid-19 pill despite scientists' concerns on its mechanism of action | A Danish bio industrial scale-up company has landed an $86 million investment from Novo Holdings, and it’s hoping to build on a technology base from Novozymes. And with that investment will come a new manufacturing site.
21st.BIO was founde... |
| 23.12.2021 | FDA authorizes new Merck Covid-19 pill despite scientists' concerns on its mechanism of action | It’s time for our holiday break here at Endpoints News, and like a lot of you, we’ve been prepping for 2022.
Anyone who’s spent some time in industry can tell you the past decade has shoved the drug-hunting field into the forefront of the w... |
| 23.12.2021 | Covid-19 manufacturing roundup: Indian manufacturer waives vaccine protections for migrants; EMA gives go-ahead for French J&J production site | Amid fears that millions of migrants may not have access to Covid-19 vaccines from Covax following liability fears, the Serum Institute of India has announced that it will waive its protection from legal liabilities f... |
| 23.12.2021 | FDA authorizes new Merck Covid-19 pill despite scientists' concerns on its mechanism of action | The FDA on Thursday authorized another new pill to treat the Omicron variant, this time from Merck.
While Pfizer’s antiviral may prove to be more effective, and Merck’s pill has left some scientists questioning the danger... |
| 22.12.2021 | FDA authorizes the first at-home pills from Pfizer to treat Covid-19 | The FDA on Wednesday signed off on Pfizer’s Covid-19 pills, which are meant to help keep people out of the hospital.
The news comes at a crucial moment, as the Omicron variant has taken over Delta as the prominent strain in the U... |
| 14.12.2021 | United Parcel Service : UPS SURPASSES ONE BILLION COVID-19 VACCINE DELIVERY MILESTONE, CONTINUES TO DELIVER HOPE AROUND THE WORLD | ATLANTA - December 14, 2021 - UPS (NYSE: UPS) today announced that it surpassed the one billion COVID-19 vaccine doses delivered mark with near-perfect on-time delivery. Just one year after the first vaccine was delivered by UPS, this miles... |
| 07.12.2021 | A fairer share: resourcing health in Solomon Islands | The Solomon Islands has committed to achieving a stronger, sustainably financed health system that provides Universal Health Coverage (UHC) for all its people. Yet navigating the complexities of health funding is a significant challenge in ... |
| 17.11.2021 | With 128 Covid vaccines in clinical development, we don’t know if the approved/authorized ones are the best ones | Pfizer/BioNTech. Moderna. Johnson & Johnson. AstraZeneca.
These are the marquee names that spring to mind when you think of the vaccine companies at the forefront of the global fight against Covid-19. And for good reason: together they ... |
| 02.11.2021 | A staged approach to achieving clinical data intelligence | In 1925, inventor Hugo Gernsbacher suggested a remote control device for physicians and called it 'Teledactyl,' effectively predicting telemedicine nearly a century ago. Since then, healthcare innovation has accelerated to the point where t... |
| 17.10.2021 | Historic yet imperfect: Malaria vaccine brings hope but the fight is far from over | Historic yet imperfect. That’s how I think of the World Health Organization’s recent endorsement of the long-awaited malaria vaccine, officially known as RTS,S/AS01, or simply as RTS,S.
This recommendation follows careful determination by t... |
| 08.10.2021 | Will Moderna’s Factory Announcement Really Address Covid-19 Vaccine Shortages In Africa? | Only 15 of the 54 countries in Africa have fully vaccinated over 10% of their populations. For ... [+] example, even though the official launch of Senegal's Covid-19 vaccination program occurred in February 2021 (pictured here), only about ... |
| 23.09.2021 | Indonesia is finally emerging from its summer of death. But as the country looks to reopen, 3 of the problems that created its pandemic crisis still loom large. | A Jakarta resident visiting the grave of a relative in the city’s special COVID-19 cemetery, taken August 31, 2021. Kuncoro Widyo Rumpoko/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images
At dawn, they would call out the names of the dead.
Hendro ... |
| 22.09.2021 | Clover's COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Demonstrates 79% Efficacy Against Delta in Global Phase 2/3 SPECTRA Trial Dominated by Variants of Concern and Interest | Trial enrolled over 30,000 adult & elderly participants across 4 continents; 100% of SARS-CoV-2 strains observed in efficacy analysis were variants (Delta was predominant strain)
Primary and secondary efficacy endpoints were successfull... |
| 08.09.2021 | More COVID-19 Vaccines Reach Indonesia Via COVAX Facility | As Indonesia continues to fight a long-running COVID-19 outbreak, some of the nation's shopping centers have taken on a second life as pop-up vaccination sites where residents can go to receive their COVID-19 shots. |
| 26.08.2021 | 23andMe : Felt Ill After COVID-19 Vaccine? It May Depend on Which Vaccine and Whether You've Had COVID-19 | These relationships between sex, age, and vaccine reaction held up, even after controlling for potential confounders.
How do the COVID-19 vaccines work?
The COVID vaccines teach your immune system to recognize and respond to the virus that ... |
| 23.08.2021 | Israel struggles with COVID surge despite mass vaccinations | West Jerusalem, Israel – In the 32C (89.6F) heat of an Israeli summer, parents and children waited – some patiently and some less so – in a line outside a testing station for their children’s turn to receive the newly approved Sofia COVID-1... |
| 27.07.2021 | AerCap N : Joins Aviation Coalition that Jointly Donates $400K to Support COVID-19 Vaccination in 92 Countries | July 27, 2021
Download as PDF AerCap Joins Aviation Coalition that Jointly Donates $400K to Support COVID-19 Vaccination in 92 Countries
The donations will be matched by the Gavi Matching Fund, amounting to $800,000 USD to support global CO... |
| 16.07.2021 | Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Ethiopia set to receive U.S.-donated COVID-19 vaccines | Sign up for our daily briefingMake your busy days simpler with Axios AM/PM. Catch up on what's new and why it matters in just 5 minutes.
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| 12.07.2021 | 6 fully vaccinated people who attended an outdoor wedding caught the Delta variant, but people with Pfizer and Moderna shots survived, study says | Six fully vaccinated people who attended an outdoor wedding in Texas got COVID-19, a new study says.
All the breakthrough infections were in guests over 50.
There were two serious cases, including one death: an attendee who’d had India’s Co... |
| 09.07.2021 | While poor countries struggle to find vaccines, places that bought too many are scrambling to get rid of doses about to expire | Pfizer BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine on Dec 17, 2020 in Victorville, California. Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
Countries including Israel, Bulgaria, and parts of the US have more vaccines than they can use.
They are trying t... |
| 08.07.2021 | Six vaccinated countries have high Covid infection rates. Five of them rely on Chinese vaccines | Weekly Covid cases, adjusted for population, have remained elevated in at least six of the world’s most inoculated countries — and five of those nations rely on vaccines from China.
Chinese vaccines face rising doubts about their efficacy, ... |
| 06.07.2021 | Clover Biopharmaceuticals Completes Enrollment of Adult and Elderly Population in SPECTRA Global Phase 2/3 Clinical Trial for its COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate | SPECTRA enrolled over 29,000 adult and elderly participants across four continents achieving high ethnic diversity and robust dataset of circulating strains
Release of vaccine efficacy data anticipated in Q3 2021 and will include sequencing... |
| 05.07.2021 | Pfizer Vaccine in India: Everything You Want to Know About the Vaccine | This article is reviewed regularly (on a monthly basis) by Wego's editorial team to ensure that the content is up to date & accurate.
Updated 2 July 2021
India, slowly emerging from the clutches of the second wave, is now rapidly progre... |
| 30.06.2021 | Clover Announces Advance Purchase Agreement with Gavi for Over 400 Million Doses of Clover's COVID-19 Vaccine for the COVAX Facility | |
| 30.06.2021 | Clover and Dynavax Announce Commercial Supply Agreement of Dynavax's CpG 1018 Adjuvant for Clover's COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate | Clover to procure CpG 1018 adjuvant from Dynavax for use in the commercial production of Clover's COVID-19 vaccine candidate, SCB-2019 (CpG 1018/Alum)
Pending conditional regulatory approvals, Clover expects to commence product launch of SC... |
| 30.06.2021 | Dynavax Technologies : Clover and Dynavax Announce Commercial Supply Agreement of Dynavax's CpG 1018 Adjuvant for Clover's COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate | Clover to procure CpG 1018 adjuvant from Dynavax for use in the commercial production of Clover's COVID-19 vaccine candidate, SCB-2019 (CpG 1018/Alum)
Pending conditional regulatory approvals, Clover expects to commence product launch of SC... |
| 30.06.2021 | Clover and Dynavax Announce Commercial Supply Agreement of Dynavax's CpG 1018 Adjuvant for Clover's COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate | |
| 30.06.2021 | Clover Announces Advance Purchase Agreement with Gavi for Over 400 Million Doses of Clover's COVID-19 Vaccine for the COVAX Facility | Pending WHO EUL for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, Clover is committed to providing 64 million doses in 2021 and Gavi has options for an additional 350 million doses in 2022
Clover will receive a significant upfront payment, a payment upon... |
| 30.06.2021 | Clover Announces Advance Purchase Agreement with Gavi for Over 400 Million Doses of Clover's COVID-19 Vaccine for the COVAX Facility | Pending WHO EUL for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, Clover is committed to providing 64 million doses in 2021 and Gavi has options for an additional 350 million doses in 2022
Clover will receive a significant upfront payment, a payment upon... |
| 23.06.2021 | The quest for thermostable vaccines and other innovations during Covid-19 | The unprecedented rapid development and distribution of Covid-19 vaccines worldwide has brought new visibility to how vaccines are produced, packaged, and distributed. The world learned about the vaccine cold chain, for example, as people m... |
| 14.06.2021 | The US Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago was mocked after announcing it had donated 80 vials of COVID-19 vaccine to the nation of 1.4 million people | The US ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago announcing the US’ gift of two field hospitals in Trinidad and Tobago in May 2021. US Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago’s US Embassy has been mocked after gifting the nation 80 COVID... |
| 27.05.2021 | Baker Hughes : Foundation Contributes $250,000... | HOUSTON and LONDON - May 27, 2021 - The Baker Hughes Foundation has announced a $250,000 grant to the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in support of its efforts to end the pandemic through equitable COVID-19 vaccine distrib... |
| 05.05.2021 | India is suffering immensely under the weight of Covid. Now its failures are threatening much of the world | When Covid-19 began sweeping across the globe in 2020, many experts expected India to be the vaccine savior of the developing world. That thought bubble has burst.
In the early days of the pandemic, as multiple vaccines were being rushed in... |
| 30.04.2021 | Hackers are attacking the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain | Hackers have targeted companies that distribute the COVID-19 vaccine to a degree previously unreported, according to research from IBM Security.
Starting last year, attackers attempted to access sensitive information about the vaccine's &qu... |
| 27.04.2021 | Transition towards sustainable mobility – Where is the financing? | Email
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| 27.04.2021 | ‘This virus is no joke’: Baltimore youth and the COVID-19 vaccine | Editor’s note: This post is by the editors of The CHARM Report, the youth-led journalism initiative of literary arts organization Charm: Voices of Baltimore Youth. It was reprinted from the CHARM site with permission.
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| 15.04.2021 | Phishing attack ramps up against COVID-19 vaccine supply chain | Image: iStock/gopixa
Cybercriminals have been expanding a phishing campaign designed to steal critical information from companies involved with COVID-19 vaccines, security group IBM Security X-Force said on Thursday. In a new report, X-Forc... |
| 22.03.2021 | AstraZeneca's COVID-19 shot was 79% effective in a trial involving 32,000 people, paving the way for authorization in the US despite troubles in Europe | Lisa Taylor receiving a COVID-19 vaccination from as part of a vaccine study at Research Centers of America on August 7 in Hollywood, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images
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| 14.03.2021 | Most of the world’s poorest countries haven’t administered a single COVID-19 vaccine dose, according to the People’s Vaccine Alliance | started distributing vaccines by drone in Ghana as part of COVAX’s first vaccine shipment. Zipline
At the start of March, at least 47 poor countries reportedly had not given any COVID-19 shots.
The data came from the People’s Vaccine Allian... |
| 06.03.2021 | Drones Are Now Being Used To Deliver Covid-19 Vaccines | Drones are playing a critical role in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic: delivering vaccines to communities that need them the most. |
| 06.03.2021 | Ghana is using drones to deliver coronavirus vaccines to rural communities | Zipline has started delivering coronavirus vaccines with drone in Ghana.
This tackles one of the biggest problems with the rollout – distributing doses in poorer countries.
Zipline has delivered medical supplies by drone since 2016, and wor... |
| 05.03.2021 | Ghana is using drones to deliver coronavirus vaccines to rural communities | One of ‘s drones. Zipline
Zipline has started delivering coronavirus vaccines with drone in Ghana.
This tackles one of the biggest problems with the rollout – distributing doses in poorer countries.
Zipline has delivered medical supplies by... |
| 05.03.2021 | Ghana becomes first country to deliver coronavirus vaccines via drone | One of Zipline's drones.
Zipline has started delivering coronavirus vaccines with drone in Ghana.
This tackles one of the biggest problems with the rollout – distributing doses in poorer countries.
Zipline has delivered medical supplies by ... |
| 03.03.2021 | Dr. Fauci has a stunningly simple way to explain how Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine differs from Pfizer’s and Moderna’s shots | Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, at a White House press briefing on January 21. Alex Wong/Getty Images
There are now three COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use in the US.
Pfizer’s... |
| 02.03.2021 | What you should know as Nigeria gets set to receive COVID-19 vaccines | Share this article:
On March 1, Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire announced that the country is expecting 3.92 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to be delivered on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. This is the first batch o... |
| 01.03.2021 | COVID-19 vaccine rollout begins in Ghana using syringes purchased with support from our partner MedAccess | Ghana is set to become the first country to begin protecting its people with COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX Facility, using syringes purchased by UNICEF using MedAccess support. MedAccess is a social finance company set up by CDC in 2017,... |
| 01.03.2021 | COVID-19 vaccine rollout begins in Ghana using syringes purchased with support from our partner MedAccess | Ghana is set to become the first country to begin protecting its people with COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX Facility, using syringes purchased by UNICEF using MedAccess support. MedAccess is a social finance company set up by CDC in 2017,... |
| 22.02.2021 | New pledges boost COVAX, but critics say more is needed to ensure global vaccine access | After months of uncertainty and frustration, a World Health Organization program designed to ensure access to Covid-19 vaccines in dozens of low-income countries late last week received a spate of good news.
First, one vaccine maker, Novava... |
| 22.02.2021 | How America’s Financial Clout Is A Funding Gamechanger For COVAX [Infographic] | President Biden has pledged to ramp up funding for COVAX in a major reversal of his predecessor's isolationist America First policy. COVAX is a financial initiative led by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and the World Health Organization a... |
| 16.02.2021 | The Race To End The Pandemic | UNICEF is leading efforts to equitably distribute COVID-19 vaccines to low- and lower-middle-income countries around the world. Because no one is safe until everyone is safe. |
| 08.02.2021 | Why The World Needs More Canada | In a turbulent year when countries’ commitments to international cooperation and assistance have been tested in the face of Covid-19, Canada has quietly shown exemplary leadership. |
| 30.01.2021 | EU places export controls on coronavirus vaccines | The EU’s vaccination program has been sluggish at best, and looking vulnerable to supply shortages.
The export controls are expected to last until the end of March.
The European Medicines Agency on Friday approved the AstraZeneca vaccine fo... |
| 21.01.2021 | Dr. Fauci says U.S. will remain a WHO member and join global Covid vaccine plan | Dr. Anthony Fauci’s comments came one day after President Joe Biden was sworn into office.
“This is a good day for WHO and a good day for global health,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Fauci last month accepted Biden’... |
| 21.01.2021 | Fauci confirms that Biden will remain in the WHO and join its vaccine scheme, COVAX, which Trump claimed was ‘China-centric’ and refused to be a part of | President-elect Joe Biden rolls up his sleeve to receive a COVID-19 vaccination from nurse practitioner Tabe Mase at ChristianaCare Christiana Hospital as his wife Jill Biden stands by on December 21, 2020 in Newark, Delaware. Photo by Josh... |
| 20.01.2021 | Biden to join Covax, which will supply SA with vaccines, after Trump refused to be a part of it | President-elect Joe Biden rolls up his sleeve to receive a COVID-19 vaccination from nurse practitioner Tabe Mase at ChristianaCare Christiana Hospital as his wife Jill Biden stands by on December 21, 2020 in Newark, Delaware.
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| 19.01.2021 | The world is ‘on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure’ by failing to get vaccines to poorer countries, the WHO warns | Bidemi Aye receives a pre-paid debt card for cash and food provided by World Food Programme (WFP) in a makeshift home in the Makoko riverine slum settlement in Lagos, Nigeria on November 27, 2020. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images
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| 18.01.2021 | The world is 'on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure' by failing to get vaccines to poorer countries, the WHO warns | Bidemi Aye receives a pre-paid debt card for cash and food provided by World Food Programme (WFP) in a makeshift home in the Makoko riverine slum settlement in Lagos, Nigeria on November 27, 2020. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images
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The year 2020 sprung the coronavirus surprise on the whole world, a surprise it is yet to recover from.
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| 28.12.2020 | Vaccine Rollout: Here Is Where South Africa Stands | A general view during the country’s first human clinical trial for a potential COVID-19 vaccine in Soweto, South Africa. Felix Dlangamandla/Beeld/Gallo Images via Getty Images |
