MEDICAL MILESTONE SA firm takes major step towards developing oral cholera vaccine 4 min 0 By Tamsin Metelerkamp
MEDICAL MILESTONE Biovac launches ‘state-of-the-art’ Cape Town lab to manufacture end-to-end vaccines 4 min 1 By Tamsin Metelerkamp
HEALTH SOVEREIGNTY Africa can no longer wait for external actors to solve its healthcare challenges 3 min 0 By Olive Shisana
AFRICAN BIOTECH OP-ED Proposed healthcare ‘New Deal’ should help set scene for this week’s Agoa Forum talks 4 min 0 By Anthony Carroll
DOSE OF PRACTICALITY OP-ED Make public procurement mechanisms accessible to local manufacturers of health products 7 min 0 By Kirti Narsai
RIGHT OF REPLY: VACCINE MANUFACTURE ‘Biovac did not comply’ – Health Department defends decision to award vaccine contract to manufacturer in India 6 min 0 By Prof Nicholas Crisp, K Jamaloodien, M Schonfeldt and R Botha
VACCINATION STRATEGY OP-ED SA’s short-sighted vaccine manufacture and procurement policy compromises Africa’s development 5 min 0 By Wilmot James and Martin Veller
VACCINE VEXATION Health Department comes to Cipla’s defence after Biovac claim tender was unfair 4 min 0 By Georgina Crouth
BHEKISISA CENTRE FOR HEALTH JOURNALISM Is a bigger cholera outbreak coming for Gauteng’s townships? 6 min 0 By Jesse Copelyn
EXIT INTERVIEW EU’s departing ambassador to SA reflects on Ukraine, Covid-19, energy transition and trade 7 min 0 By Peter Fabricius
SONA 2022 Exclusive: What Cyril Ramaphosa will say in his 2022 State of the Nation Address 3 min 0 By Ferial Haffajee
MAVERICK CITIZEN Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine to be filled and finished in South Africa for exclusive African use 4 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
BHEKISISA CENTRE FOR HEALTH JOURNALISM Why sharing the secrets of making a Covid-19 vaccine isn’t enough 7 min 0 By Adele Sulcas and Mia Malan
SPOTLIGHT High hopes for deal to unlock local Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing 6 min 0 By Chris Bateman
CORONAVIRUS GLOBAL UPDATE US says 150 million citizens fully vaccinated; South Africa registers 9,160 new cases 4 min 0 By Bloomberg
LANDMARK INITIATIVE South Africa chosen to host first WHO Covid mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub 4 min 0 By Peter Fabricius
BHEKISISA CENTRE FOR HEALTH JOURNALISM Pfizer vaccines are coming: Here’s how South Africa could prepare its cold chain 2 min 0 By Aisha Abdool Karim and Joan van Dyk
SPOTLIGHT: IN-DEPTH Promising signs for local biopharmaceutical production in South Africa 10 min 0 By Catherine Tomlinson for Spotlight
MAVERICK CITIZEN Collision of failures: How Biovac and a ‘lack of vision’ got South Africa into a vaccine mess 5 min 0 By Ufrieda Ho
MAVERICK CITIZEN Private sector can procure vaccines from government, Mkhize tells National Council of Provinces 1 min 0 By Christi Nortier
