A South African company will make vaginal rings that protect against HIV, which AIDS experts say should eventually make them cheaper and more readily available. The Population Council announced Thursday that Kiara Health of Johannesburg will start making the silicone rings in the next few years, estimating that 1 million could be produced annually. The … Read more
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africa, Colombia and other countries that lost out in the global race for coronavirus vaccines are taking a more combative approach towards drugmakers and pushing back on policies that deny cheap treatment to millions of people with tuberculosis and HIV. Experts see it as a shift in how such … Read more
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No one expected the first Covid-19 vaccine to be as good as it was. “We were hoping for around 70 percent, that’s a success,” says Dr Ann Falsey, a professor of medicine at the University of Rochester, New York, who ran a 150-person trial site for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in 2020. Even Uğur Şahin, the … Read more
Because the conflict rolled on, organizations responding to the disaster got here to understand that they needed to be versatile and suppose past fastened, brick-and-mortar well being care infrastructure. They wanted to get ART to individuals—interrupted therapy can contribute to drug resistance—and so they wanted to proceed, and scale up, hurt discount applications. Andriy Klepikov, … Read more