This brief synthesises social and behavioural science (SBS) research on the use of vaccines during health emergencies in sub-Saharan Africa, including vaccines undergoing clinical trials ...

The agency has published a list of 24 high-risk infectious diseases as a reference tool for funders and researchers.

Recent shipments of mpox vaccines from Western donors such as ... Tanzania is facing an outbreak of Marburg virus, in the northwest Kagera District. Since January, 10 cases have been reported ...

A vaccine was only widely approved in 2019 ... Pharmaceutical maker Gilead is currently advancing Obeldesivir to Phase 2 ...

Can the continent walk the talk? **** The African Union has embarked on one of its most audacious health security missions: ...

Thursday March 27 marks exactly five years since President Cyril Ramaphosa placed the nation under a strict lockdown to ...

The list of 24 infectious diseases has been created to help scientists make new tests, vaccines and medication in preparation ...

New research this month shows that the experimental antiviral obeldesivir prevented up to 100% of deaths in monkeys infected ...

According to the National Income Dynamics Study (Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey), South Africa lost a decade’s worth of jobs ...

Marburg virus, a member of the same family as Ebola virus ... But as pandemic-era disruptions dropped vaccine rates, the virus has resurged, the WHO said. Romania, where less than 80% of eligible kids ...

Measles is known for its characteristic rash, but it can have serious respiratory and neurologic complications.