Tag: vaccines
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Cholera outbreaks highlight the need for Africa to make its own vaccines
There is a worldwide shortage of cholera vaccines, and only one WHO-approved producer in the world, EuBiologics in South Korea. In February 2024, Doctors Without Borders, a medical humanitarian organisation, reported that the global cholera vaccine stockpile had been exhausted. Already in October 2022 a decision was made to temporarily reduce the dosage of vaccine…
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Two years of Coronavirus in South Africa visualised
Over two years Media Hack collected detailed data on coronavirus in South Africa, and we decided to do something special with all the numbers we’ve collected daily over the past 110 weeks.
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Did Africa pay more for Covid-19 vaccines?
Countries that made deals with pharmaceutical companies outside of Covax – barring Pfizer – paid more for their vaccines than other nations.
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How can Africa transform from a vaccine desert to a vaccine hub?
Long dependent on wealthy nations for its vaccine supplies, Africa is starting to build up its own vaccine manufacturing capacity.
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Quick take: Africa doubles Covid-19 vaccines with donations from US
36 African countries have received donations from the US since July.