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26 March 2015 | By Victoria White
Governments are finding it increasingly difficult to afford new medicines. A WHO report suggests transparency is needed for the negotiation of better deals...
25 March 2015 | By Victoria White
The Guinean Government with WHO initiated the very first efficacy trial of an Ebola vaccine this week in an affected community of the Basse-Guinée...
24 March 2015 | By Victoria White
Janssen Health Policy Centre (Janssen Pharmaceutica NV) today unveiled the EU Disease Lens: a digital dashboard that brings insight into 15 major diseases...
23 March 2015 | By Victoria White
A growing risk of outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in countries affected by Ebola must be countered by the scaling up of routine immunisation...
23 March 2015 | By Victoria White
Merck is fighting schistosomiasis in Mozambique, providing WHO with praziquantel tablets free of charge and presenting 20,000 educational brochures...
17 March 2015 | By Victoria White
ESCMID has joined the World Health Organisation (WHO) to launch the 7th annual ‘International Day for Fighting Infection’ on April 24th, 2015...
26 February 2015 | By GAFFI
Early detection and treatment of fungal meningitis and pneumonia can save hundreds of thousands of lives, for a cost of 'only $30' per HIV patient, the world's first stakeholder meeting on fungal diseases hosted by GAFFI (Global Action Fund for Fungal Infections) and held in Seattle, USA has concluded...
17 February 2015 | By Mundipharma
Mundipharma to provide supplies for at least two million handwashes in Ebola treatment centres...
23 January 2015 | By GlaxoSmithKline
GSK has announced that the first batch of its candidate Ebola vaccine is being shipped to west Africa...
21 January 2015 | By Distributed by APO (African Press Organization) on behalf of Rotary International
Nigeria marks progress, having gone six months without a case of polio...
23 December 2014 | By Dr Tim Sandle, Bio Products Laboratory
This article surveys some of the recent developments in regulatory requirements and standards that have taken place during the past 12 months, highlighting those aspects that are of relevance to pharmaceutical microbiology...
12 December 2014 | By Merck KGaA
Merck supports the World Health Organization (WHO) to fight the parasitic worm disease schistosomiasis in Africa...
27 October 2014 | By Imaxio
Imaxio announces that it has been awarded funding of EUR 600,000 (USD 772,000) by the French National Research Agency (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, ANR) for the OPTIVAC project 'leveraging On t-cell immune resPonse To Improve influenza VACcines'...
8 August 2014 | By The World Health Organization
The first meeting of the Emergency Committee convened by the Director-General under the International Health Regulations (2005) [IHR (2005)] regarding the 2014 Ebola Virus Disease outbreak in West Africa was held by teleconference on Wednesday, 6 August 2014...
8 August 2014 | By The World Health Organization
Early next week, WHO will convene a panel of medical ethicists to explore the use of experimental treatment in the ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa...
