State-backed vaccine manufacturer Biovac has revitalised its operations through significant partnerships and investment. The company has signed agreements with multinational pharmaceutical giant Sanofi and South Korean firm EuBiologics to produce vaccines for polio...
The Health Funders Association (HFA), a key industry group for medical schemes, is optimistic that the new national unity government will allow for reconsideration of the controversial National Health Insurance (NHI) Act. The HFA’s members, including the largest...
There are six legal challenges against the National Health Insurance (NHI) Act, filed by Solidarity, the Health Funders’ Association, the South African Medical Association, the Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF), the South African Health Professionals Collaboration,...
A decade into its cervical cancer vaccination programme, South Africa strives to increase HPV vaccination coverage to combat cervical cancer, the second leading cause of cancer in women in the country. HPV infection, accounting for 95% of global cervical cancer cases,...
The shortage of mpox vaccines and treatments in African countries experiencing outbreaks highlights the world’s inadequate preparedness for another pandemic, according to Helen Clark, former co-chair of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and...
