A pregnant woman in eastern Congo cannot wait for a policy meeting. That is why the news on US maternal and newborn health funding matters. Washington has struck a one-year deal to keep medicines and equipment flowing to mothers and babies in some of the poorest places on earth. What the Deal Covers Under the […]
Walk into almost any pharmacy in Johannesburg or Cape Town and you will hear about weight-loss jabs. This week, South Africa weight-loss drug rules moved to the front of the news, as regulators confirmed they are revising how medicines can be customised. The target is the fast-growing, lightly policed trade in compounded versions of GLP-1 […]
The health ministry has been cleared by to import drugs that would be used to treat Ebola patients. “Happy to inform you all that we got clearance from both Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST) and National Drug Authority (NDA) to bring in the Therapeutic treatment for #Ebola patients in the country,” Health […]
Uganda on Thursday recorded its second Ebola fatality since the virus spread from neighbouring DR Congo, where officials said a 10-month-old epidemic had now killed more than 1 400 people. The new toll came as Uganda’s health ministry announced that five people, including one with Ebola, had been repatriated to the Democratic Republic of Congo […]