Medicines, vaccines and other biological products for human use are going to be more expensive in the country, given the dynamics of the pharmaceutical market and the existence of new product categories as a result of technological developments. A statement from the Ministry of Health (MISAU) on the new fees for services provided by the National Authority for...
Mozambique will receive and administer the cholera vaccine in the coming days, a measure aimed at controlling the disease that has spread to more districts in the central and northern provinces, causing deaths. To this end, a request for vaccines has been submitted to the international technical group responsible for ordering and distributing vaccines to...
A new study from Oregon Health and Science University in the United States has revealed that booster vaccines, infections (and reinfections) are generating "potent" immunity. The new research was published this September in the scientific journal Med and analyzed blood samples to understand the immune response. "As...
British drugmaker AstraZeneca posted a net profit in the first half of this year of $748 million, down $65% from the same period in 2021, the company announced Friday. Sales of the Covid-19 vaccine drove the company's results in the first six months of last year, when volume of...
Amazon is developing vaccines in collaboration with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and has recently launched a clinical trial already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the US equivalent of Infarmed. The partnership aims to recruit up to 20 participants over the age of 18 for the first phase of testing, from...
There are not many details yet, but Mozambique may have a vaccine pharmaceutical industry in the near future. The intention of the establishment of this industry was expressed to the government by an agent of the national private sector, in partnership with foreign entities specialized in the production of immunizers, said government spokesman Filimão Suazi. "The information was gathered from...
Moderna pharmaceuticals revealed, this Thursday, to have agreed with the European Commission to postpone the delivery of some batches of vaccines against Covid-19 to the European Union (EU). At issue is the falling demand for vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. According to a statement from the European Commission, quoted by Reuters news agency, deliveries to the...
South African head of state Cyril Ramaphosa said today that the progress the country has made "in little more than a year" is due, among other things, to "determined diplomacy." "The global response to the pandemic has seen incidents of self-interest, protectionism, parochialism and, at times, anti-Africanism," he said in a statement during the opening of a conference of...
The summit between the European Union (EU) and the African Union (AU) will be marked by "tension" between the two blocks. Considered Marisa Lourenço, analyst at the consultancy Control Risks, which follows Sub-Saharan Africa. "The summit is not expected to deepen the relationship between the two blocs, mainly because tension has grown significantly over the past year. A...
Pfizer and BioNTech announced Tuesday the start of recruitment for adult clinical trials to ascertain the immune response of the human body already immunized against covid-19 with a vaccine specifically targeting the omicron variant. "This study takes place within the framework of our scientific approach, which aims to design targeted vaccines...