Category: Health

The World Health Organization (WHO) has reportedly announced delivering essential health supplies and vital medicines from it’s Dubai logistic hub to Khartoum, Sudan. This has been done to cater to the medical needs of 1.5 million people of Sudan and to protect more than 300,000 front-line hea

Young scientists in some Cape Town warehouses are gathering and calibrating the equipment required to reverse engineer a COVID-19 vaccine that has yet to reach South Africa and other underprivileged economies. These facilities buzzing with activity reflect the urgency of the country’s efforts

American pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, Moderna has recently revealed plans to open a new vaccine production facility in Africa. According to the company, its new facility would produce approximately 500 million doses of Moderna's mRNA vaccine per year, which has recently shown effec

Stepping up to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison recently revealed plans to purchase 300,000 courses of drug maker Merck’s experimental antiviral drug. The move comes as Victoria records the highest number of daily COVID-19 cases across all state

A new study by scientists at MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, has reportedly found that minor differences in an individual's genetic make-up might help explain the reason why some individuals establish a robust natural defense against a coronavirus infection, while others experie

French President- Mr. Emmanuel Macron has pledged to double the total number of coronavirus vaccine doses to 120 million which France plans to donate to poor nations. Commenting during the Global Citizen fundraising concert in Paris, President Macron said that the state of vaccination is far behind

ABCHealth recently announced the West Africa AfCFTA-Anchored Pharma Initiative at the Africa Investment Summit on Health. This initiative is designed to boost the local production of drugs and medical equipment in West Africa and eventually across the continent. The Africa Investment Summit on Heal

Researchers from Juntendo University have reported that mutant variants of the malaria-causing parasite are spreading in Africa. These mutants are reportedly resistant to artemisinin, the primary drug used for treating the disease, according to the study published in the New England Journal of Medic

Prominent medical and pharmaceutical groups have reportedly warned against the use of Ivermectin to treat coronavirus patients. Ivermectin is a drug used to treat infections caused by internal and external parasites and is wrongly being used to treat COVID-19. Groups including the American Medica