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Globalizing the COVID Vaccine

In less than a year, the world has come together to develop effective COVID-19 vaccines and a multilateral platform for allocating them most efficiently around the world. But with the risk of vaccine nationalism still looming large, now is the time to finish the job.

Opinion: How AI can push for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines

By Jayasree Iyer, Thomas Collin Lefebvre The advent of artificial intelligence as an adaptive and predictive technology offers the possibility for radical optimization of business practices, reshaping market opportunities for pharmaceutical companies and ultimately challenging the status quo on access to medicine worldwide. However, pharmaceutical

HIV drug to be made locally

In 2017, Kenya became the first country in Africa to receive the generic treatment with an initial 27,000 HIV patients who had developed resistance to efavirenz as first recipients of the drug for free before production was escalated to reach more patients. By Brian Ambani  &