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China Approves Pfizer Vaccine Prevenar
Chinese regulators have approved Pfizer Inc's blockbuster vaccine Prevenar 13, the U.S. drugmaker said on Wednesday, a breakthrough for the firm after it was forced to shut its vaccine business in China last year.
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Nigeria Set to Resume Vaccine Production, Eyes $280m From Export
The Chairman of the National Immunisation Financing Task Force Team (NIFT), Dr. Ben Anyene told the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu in Abuja yesterday, that when fully in production, vaccines from Nigeria will cater for seven million children. They could also yield $280 million in export.
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A Water-Chilled Coolbox Gets Vaccines on Tap to the World’s Poorest
It was a walk past a frozen lake 10 years ago that got Ian Tansley thinking differently about global health. The Welsh inventor had spent decades travelling and developing solar technologies throughout Africa and Asia. Yet one puzzle he was keen to crack – how to deliver vaccines on a wide-scale basis to the poorest, most remote communities – had so far eluded him.
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Russian Minister Says Producing Vaccines in Nicaragua Is ‘Very Profitable’
The project of producing Russian vaccines in Nicaragua will be beneficial for both sides, Russian Healthcare Minister Veronika Skvortsova told reporters on Oct. 23.
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Sun Pharma Partners ICGEB to Develop Safer, Cheaper Dengue Vaccine
Drugmaker Sun PharmaBSE 0.01 % has partnered with International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) to develop a dengue vaccine which, it said, would be safer, effective and more affordable than the existing vaccine and other candidates being developed.
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WHO Seeks New Mechanism for Crisis Vaccine Supplies At Low Cost
The World Health Organization, drugmakers and humanitarian groups are hammering out details of a new vaccine supply system aimed at getting vital shots to vulnerable people in crises such as wars or natural disasters.
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UNICEF: Vaccine Price Drop Will Save Millions of Child Lives
The U.N. Children’s Fund reports a steep drop in the price of a crucial childhood vaccine will prevent millions of deaths in dozens of the world’s poorest countries.
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Weekly Roundup: $5 Beats Free, SunFunder Rises, and Asia’s Investors Love Impact
Why it's not crazy for a global health organization to refuse free vaccines, where the world's most socially conscious investors live, which major funder might be planning to alter some old investment restrictions, and what's needed to support the Sustainable Development Goals. That and more; it's all here in our Weekly Roundup.
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