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South Africa at the start of a Covid-19 vaccine the world has never seen
The World Health Organisation has enlisted a team of South African researchers to produce a new mRNA Covid-19 vaccine, but with no recipe to follow, it’s not an easy task
The ABCs of DIY vaccines: Why tech transfer is a big thing
A new World Health Organisation initiative is helping nations make their own vaccines, reducing their dependency on imports.
Campaign against patent laws ‘causing barriers’ to life saving Covid-19, TB, HIV and cancer drugs
The Fix The Patent Laws Campaign wants Trade Minister Ebrahim Patel to publish amendments to the Patent Act to make all medication affordable
How not to run a vaccine clinical trial – The Sputnik case study
Russia’s COVID vaccine, Sputnik V, is plagued by a series of red flags and question marks surrounding its clinical trials and results. Here’s how the jab took a shortcut and…
Botswana: ‘Masisi is mismanaging Covid-19’
Six months into Botswana’s vaccine roll-out, only 5% of the population has been vaccinated
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
Africa could produce a Covid-19 vaccine sooner than you think
In mere months, Moderna transformed an old Polaroid factory in America into a state-of-the-art vaccine-production centre. Why can’t we do the same?
South Africa pauses Covid-19 vaccine rollout after disappointing AstraZeneca results
SA’s one-million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine will expire by early April — unless India’s Serum Institute can safely extend their use-by date.
Another Covid crisis: A vaccine apartheid endangering us all
The West bought billions of vaccines fast and cheap, leaving poorer nations paying through the nose for years to come
Bill Gates, Big Pharma and entrenching the vaccine apartheid
Waiving intellectual property restrictions on Covid-19 vaccines could help the developing world. But India and South Africa’s pleas are falling on deaf ears
Vigilant eyes will monitor South Africa’s first batch of vaccines
The department of health is also negotiating with manufacturers other than AstraZeneca to secure more than one type of vaccine
Egypt, Seychelles get first jabs
The two countries have rolled out China’s Sinopharm vaccine, but data issues are likely to keep some countries from doing the same
Bread and vaccines
Pharmaceutical companies stand to make billions from the Covid-19 pandemic, but the vaccines they have developed are the fruits of the collective labour of all of humanity.
Vaccine-destroying US pharmacist was ‘conspiracy theorist’ — police
Steven Brandenburg destroyed vials of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine because he believed that they were dangerous and could alter human DNA.
Infodemic to infowar: The circus of disinformation will spin on
More people have died in South Africa from Covid-19 than have been murdered. This hasn’t stopped a misinformation pandemic from trying to misrepresent that reality