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Analysis: COVID-19 Pushing Over 500 Million People Into Extreme Poverty: UN
The pandemic is likely to halt two decades of global progress toward universal health coverage, triggering declining immunizations and increased tuberculosis and malaria deaths, the global health body said.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Global
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Report: COVID-19 Brings 10 Challenges That Hinders Africa’s Path to Recovery
Africa faces 10 key governance challenges it must resolve in order for it to fully recover from the Covid-19 outbreak, according to this report by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Cooling, Cold Chain Advances Energy Efficiency for Food, Vaccines in Africa
The Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold Chain (ACES) is about to enhance its reach through a network of Specialised Outreach and Knowledge Establishments (SPOKEs).
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Aspen Pharmacare, Pursuing J&J Vaccine License, Aims to Shore up Local Capacity and Quash Shot Inequality in Africa
Aspen already has a deal to package J&J's shot at its facility in South Africa. Under the terms of the potential licensing pact, Aspen would be in charge of finishing vaccine doses as well as marketing the shot on the continent. building local vaccine manufacturing capacity on the continent.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- coronavirus, healthcare, pandemics, vaccines
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Oravax To Develop Israeli Oral COVID-19 Vaccine in Mexico
Israel’s Oravax Medical, a subsidiary of Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced this month that it has partnered with Genomma Lab Internacional, in a 50/50 joint venture to develop and commercialize Oravax’s oral COVID-19 vaccine candidate in Mexico.
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- Coronavirus
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- Latin America
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Africa’s COVID-19 Response: It’s All About the People on the Ground
High rates of infection are setting Africa back but young innovators across the continent are deploying a social entrepreneurship skillset to fight the pandemic from the ground up.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Global
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Analysis: Zipline Needs Nigeria To Support Its Drone Delivery Medical Service—as Rwanda and Ghana Did
Getting into Nigeria could be big for Zipline’s larger ambitions as a logistics company that can move from just delivering medical products from government to health centers, to one that delivers other types of packages to consumers.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: DFC and Biological E. Limited Finalize Financing Arrangement To Expand COVID-19 Vaccine Manufacturing Capabilities in India
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) COO David Marchick and Biological E. Limited Managing Director Mahima Datla today unveiled the expansion of Biological E.’s vaccine manufacturing facility in Hyderabad.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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