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The next three to five years will require the continent to ensure there is sustainable business beyond Covid-19.

It’s doable: Africa wants 60% of locally manufactured vaccines by 2040

The next three to five years will require the continent to ensure there is sustainable business beyond Covid-19.

Drought has left
nearly two million Kenyans at risk. (Photo by Noor Khamis/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Africa in brief: 11-18 September

Your Africa updates: What happened on the continent this past week

Used vials of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

J&J’s failure to deliver adequate Covid-19 doses to South Africa is nothing new

South Africa is still awaiting millions of Covid-19 vaccines from Johnson & Johnson even though the country contributed to its research through the Ensemble and Sisonke studies

Sharing the secrets of making a Covid-19 vaccine isn’t enough. Here’s why

For all the excitement generated by the news of an mRNA vaccine hub being established in South Africa, the country is still going to need help making Covid-19 jabs

A local analysis found early evidence of promising protective effects of the Pfizer vaccine in South Africa — even among those who had received only  one dose. (Photo by Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The EVDS will schedule your appointments six weeks apart. Here’s why

South Africa has doubled the interval for the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. We take a look at what other countries have done and the evidence for the move

As South Africa’s Covid infections surge, the number of jabs can’t increase, yet

Hospitals are under strain, nurses are burning out and infections are on the rise, but there are limited Covid-19 vaccine doses available

No silver bullet for Covid-19, but rather a cocktail

It is no good waiting for a vaccine or ivermectin or other miracle cures, we just need to do what we can do now

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Johnson & Johnson vaccines could arrive in South Africa next week

We spoke to experts, looked at the data and relistened to the health department’s briefings to break down the revised roll-out plan

Adcock takeover offer may push company value to $1.5bn

Adcock Ingram, SA’s largest supplier of hospital products, may gain a further 12% from a 30-month high after it got takeover offers.

Drug wars: How Adcock saw its Aspen

A tale of two companies — one saw generics as the future, the other is playing catch-up.

Aspen sees higher profit, local unit robust

Africa’s biggest generic drug-maker, Aspen Pharmacare, said on Monday full-year headline earnings per share likely rose by 25%.

Aspen first-half profit up

Aspen Pharmacare, Africa’s biggest generic drug-maker, posted a 27% rise in first-half profit from continuing operations.

Beijing shutdown hits SA medicines supply

The Beijing Olympics has had an unexpected side effect, which is being felt locally in the form of serious shortages of generic medicines.

Govt awards antiretrovirals tender

The awarding of a new tender for antiretroviral drugs by the Health Department will mean important savings for the state’s treatment programme.