Business interests and intellectual property laws privilege the wealthy and leave the rest scrabbling for life-saving medicine

The need for a new tuberculosis vaccine is as urgent as ever, and now a local pharmaceutical company is joining the race to find one

Low vaccination levels and high number of health-compromised populations make the continent a ‘breeding ground for variants’ that pose a global risk

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

Vaccine roll-out will be easier now that Pfizer confirms the lifespan of its Covid-19 vaccine in a refrigerator is more than six times longer than first estimated

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?

As Covid vaccines near the manufacturing stage, a look at two polio vaccines provides valuable historical insights