According to new analyses posted online by the US Food and Drug Administration today (Wednesday) showed 82% efficacy against severe disease in South Africa. The vaccine had a 72 percent overall efficacy rate in the United States and 64 percent in South Africa, where a highly contagious variant emerged in the fall...

INOVIO, a biotechnology company focused on bringing to market precisely designed DNA medicines to treat and protect people from infectious diseases and cancer, today announced the first participant was dosed in a Phase 1B clinical trial for INO-4500, its DNA vaccine candidate for Lassa fever, in Ghana. The Phase 1B...

On Valentine's Day Feb 14, health authorities in Guinea declared an outbreak of Ebola in the rural community of Gouéké in N’Zerekore prefecture after three Ebola cases were confirmed by the national laboratory, marking the first time the disease has been reported in the country since an outbreak ended in 2016. A week earlier,...

 Today, 4 in 10 of the world’s deaths are unregistered and in the African region, only 1 in 10 deaths is currently recorded, according to the first ever global assessment of country health information systems released today by the World Health Organization in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies. Two-thirds of low-income countries have established a standardized system...

There is an approved treatment for Ebola virus disease, it is Ebanga (Ansuvimab-zykl), a human monoclonal antibody, for the treatment for Zaire ebolavirus (Ebolavirus) infection in adults and children. The US FDA granted the approval to Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, LP. Ebanga acts by blocking the binding of the virus to the cell receptor...

The United States government has called attention to the rapid increase in life-threatening hunger in South Sudan. Citing a recent analysis by the Integrated Food-Security Phase Classification, the US government said it is gravely concerned by the worsening food-security situation in the Republic of South Sudan, and reiterates calls for the...

The Prime Minister of Eswatini, Ambrose Dlamini, is dead. He reportedly died after testing positive for the new coronavirus. He was aged 52. Prior to his death, he was very active in the country's fight against HIV/AIDS and his death has been described by UNAIDS as a great loss. “The...

In the spring, scientists throughout the world were actively discussing whether there is a connection between vaccination against tuberculosis in early childhood and the mild course of the new coronavirus disease. However, at that time, statistics on patients with COVID-19 were still insufficient to draw reliable conclusions. Medical doctors throughout...

The Vodacom Foundation is announcing the launch of a cutting-edge, free to download application designed to aid in the fight against Gender Base Violence (GBV).  As South Africans retreated inside their homes due to the lockdown measures introduced by government to curb the COVID-19 pandemic earlier this year, reports showed...

Thirteen African countries and an international network of research institutions have joined forces to launch the largest COVID-19 clinical trial in mild-to-moderate outpatients in Africa. The ANTICOV clinical trial aims to respond to the urgent need to identify treatments that can be used to treat mild and moderate cases of...