FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Chiara Canzi Chief Communications Officer [email protected] (434) 249-5930 www.medaditus.org Med Aditus International Announces Appointment of Robert A. Blouin as President & Chief Executive Officer and Launch of Subsidiary, Med Aditus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, (November 16, 2023)
The COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP), a multi-stakeholder partnership to facilitate sharing of intellectual property (IP), knowledge and innovations has announced three new licensing agreements acquired through the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP). The agreements include the following licenses to transfer know-how, materials and clinical data
KAKAMEGA, Kenya, Aug 30 – Cabinet has approved the establishment of three funds that will replace the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF). A cabinet dispatch says the meeting chaired by President William Ruto okayed the Primary Healthcare Fund, Social Health Insurance Fund, and Emergency, Chronic
By Geoffrey Kamadi NAIROBI, Apr 7 2023 (IPS) – The disease burden and distribution of mycetoma—a neglected tropical disease—are not very well understood. However, it is known to affect people in Sudan, Senegal, Mauritania, Kenya, and Niger, as well as people in Nigeria, Ethiopia, India,
By Meghan Rosen The patient arrived at the hospital one hot night in Masi-Manimba, an agricultural town unfurled along the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Lukula River. He couldn’t speak, he couldn’t walk, he was conscious but “barely could make … gestures,” says Béatrice Kasita,
Six mobile vaccine-production units developed by German pharmaceutical company BioNTech have arrived in Rwanda. This is the first such shipment to Africa as the continent seeks to boost local production of mRNA vaccines. Advertising The units, made from recycled shipping containers, arrived in the capital
PRESS RELEASE Kigali, Rwanda 10/03/2023. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) hosted its lead partners at a meeting on the sidelines of the Africa Health Agenda International Conference 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda, from 05 March to 08 March 2023. The meeting
By Winston Morgan and Shazma Bashir The recent deaths of over 300 children in Africa and Asia have prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to warn about the use of “substandard and falsified” medical products. The organisation called for more efforts to protect children from
By: Ogechi Ekeanyanwu and Jackie Opara Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) – a set of 20 diseases including river blindness and sleeping sickness – affect more than a billion people globally, with Africa accounting for almost 40 per cent of the global burden. While Africa is
PRESS RELEASE Geneva, 13 February 2023 – Today Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, which supports access to immunisation in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), announced the appointment of Dr Muhammad Ali Pate of Nigeria as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). With this new leadership, we