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Infectious Diseases

#WorldHepatitisDay: Why hepatitis testing must be prioritised in SA

Merilynn Steenkamp 28 Jul 2025

Image credit: Dima Solomin on Unsplash

Pharmaceuticals

SA's Biovac to make, distribute pneumonia vaccine across Africa

26 Jun 2025

Legislation & Regulation

Why South African animal welfare laws need an urgent overhaul

Charan Saunders 12 Jun 2025

Standard Bank Top Women Conference 2024: A powerful gathering for women’s leadership and empowerment

Events & Conferencing

Standard Bank Top Women Conference 2024: A powerful gathering for women’s leadership and empowerment

Issued by Topco Media 21 Nov 2024

Standard Bank Top Women Conference 2024: The event for networking, inspiration and professional growth

Events & Conferencing

Standard Bank Top Women Conference 2024: The event for networking, inspiration and professional growth

Issued by Topco Media 16 Oct 2024

Source: Biovac.

Emergency Medicine

Ghanaian minister visits Biovac to explore vaccine capabilities

14 Aug 2024

Source: @biovac_inst/X

Public Health

Biovac, EuBiologics partner to boost Africa meningitis vaccine

21 Jun 2024

Celebrating excellence in HR: Topco Media announces winners of the Future of HR Awards 2023

Management & Leadership

Celebrating excellence in HR: Topco Media announces winners of the Future of HR Awards 2023

Issued by Topco Media 28 Nov 2023

#SBTopWomenAwards: Celebrating 'My Africa' and honouring excellence

Events & Conferencing

#SBTopWomenAwards: Celebrating 'My Africa' and honouring excellence

Issued by Topco Media 8 Nov 2023

Finalists announced: 20th Annual Standard Bank Top Women Awards brought to you by Topco Media

Events & Conferencing

Finalists announced: 20th Annual Standard Bank Top Women Awards brought to you by Topco Media

Issued by Topco Media 6 Nov 2023

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation campus is pictured in Seattle, Washington, US 5 May 2021. Reuters/Lindsey Wasson/File Photo

Medical Research

Gates gives $40m to boost access to mRNA vaccines in Africa

Jennifer Rigby and Wendell Roelf 9 Oct 2023

Source: Supplied.

Medical Research

Biovac and EuBiologics partner for meningitis vaccine tech transfer

28 Sep 2023

Public Health

Consortium sparks debate over intellectual property of mRNA vaccines manufactured in SA

Katja Hamilton 21 Apr 2023

Source: Supplied. The delegation of global Pfizer executives, and members of the US Consulate and the Trade, Industry and Competition are pictured here with Minister Ebrahim Patel.

Covid-19

Global president of Pfizer opens Cape's new Pfizer and Biovac facility

10 Mar 2023

Public Health

Green light for Cape Health Technology Park

28 Feb 2023

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

South Africa's Biovac in new oral cholera vaccine deal

Wendell Roelf 25 Nov 2022

Public Health

Time to combat the burden of disease on South Africa's healthcare system

8 Sep 2022

Economy

Local vaccine production boosts economic transformation and job creation in South Africa

Patrick Tippoo 22 Jun 2022

Source: Supplied: Petro Terblanche, managing director of Afrigen,

Medical Research

#AfricaMonth: Injecting the continent - and the world - with hope

Katja Hamilton 20 May 2022

Covid-19

World first as SA lab makes mRNA Covid vaccine using Moderna data

18 Feb 2022

Government to look at 3D-printed houses and space as part of big tech revolution

ICT

Government to look at 3D-printed houses and space as part of big tech revolution

24 Jan 2022

Source: Premier Alan Winde. The interior of the new NantSA vaccine plant opened in Cape Town at the same time as the launch of the AAAH coalition .

Healthcare

Cape Town unveils Africa's Access to Advanced Healthcare coalition

24 Jan 2022

Source: REUTERS/Shelley Christians. Cyril Ramaphosa and Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong cut a ribbon, while Premier of the Western Cape Alan Winde looks on.

Covid-19

Billionaire Soon-Shiong opens new vaccine plant in South Africa

20 Jan 2022

Leadership now: Lessons from 2021 and preparing for the future

Management & Leadership

Leadership now: Lessons from 2021 and preparing for the future

Brian Eagar, Issued by MANGO-OMC 7 Dec 2021

Covid-19

Biovac gears up to manufacture Pfizer vaccine

6 Dec 2021

Technology's role in rewriting the African continent's narrative

Technology

Technology's role in rewriting the African continent's narrative

Ndagi Job Goshi 29 Sep 2021

Soure: supplied by agency

Covid-19

Pandemic-proofing Africa

16 Sep 2021

Bridging the Covid-19 vaccine gap

Covid-19

Bridging the Covid-19 vaccine gap

15 Sep 2021

Source: ©luiscarceller

Pharmaceuticals

Vaccine inequality makes a case for African pharma opportunities

Julie Oppenheim, Daniel Mwathe & Micael Sehul 28 Jul 2021

Covid-19

Biovac to manufacture Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine for Africa

21 Jul 2021

Dr Thulani Mhlanga, medical manager for vaccines at Pfizer South Africa

Public Health

Adult vaccination could stop unnecessary deaths

20 Jul 2021

World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks as he attends the World Health Assembly (WHA) amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Geneva, Switzerland, 24 May 2021. Christopher Black/World Health Organisation/Handout via Reuters

Pharmaceuticals

WHO setting up hub to make Covid-19 vaccines in South Africa - Tedros

22 Jun 2021

There’s much that President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government has yet to explain to South Africans about the Covid-19 vaccine procurement. Getty Images

Covid-19

What South Africans should know, but don't, about government's Covid-19 vaccine procurement

Geo Quinot 3 Mar 2021

Distribution

Safeguard procurement, distribution and administration of vaccines against corruption

2 Feb 2021

SA health minister, Dr Zweli Mkhize.

Covid-19

UPDATE: First batch of Covid-19 vaccine arrives in SA

1 Feb 2021

South Africa does not have large-scale vaccine manufacturing capability. Shutterstock

Covid-19

Vaccine production in South Africa: how an industry in its infancy can be developed

Jeffrey Dorfman & Frank Kirstein 21 Jan 2021

Vaccine rollout: Here is where South Africa stands

Public Health

Vaccine rollout: Here is where South Africa stands

James Stent 22 Dec 2020

To suppress the Covid-19 pandemic, tens of millions of South Africans would have to be vaccinated. Nothing at that scale has been done here before. Photo: Armin Kübelbeck (CC-BY-SA via Wikimedia Commons)

Covid-19

Vaccinating tens of millions of people will be very difficult

James Stent & Nathan Geffen 27 Nov 2020

Signs of daily Covid-19 infections stabilising

Covid-19

Signs of daily Covid-19 infections stabilising

3 Aug 2020

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Covid-19

SA tests drugs for Covid-19

25 Mar 2020

Why manufacturing a key vaccine in South Africa is so important

Infectious Diseases

Why manufacturing a key vaccine in South Africa is so important

David Walwyn 19 Apr 2018

Measles outbreak in KZN

Infectious Diseases

Measles outbreak in KZN

8 Sep 2017

Cape Health Technology Park could add R10 billion to economy

Hospital Groups

Cape Health Technology Park could add R10 billion to economy

3 Dec 2015

Red tape holding up Litha's vaccine facility

Pharmaceuticals

Red tape holding up Litha's vaccine facility

Tamar Kahn 16 Nov 2013

National vaccines shortage

Public Health

National vaccines shortage

19 Sep 2013

Pharmaceuticals

Litha in talks for tech transfer for flu vaccines

Tamar Khan 5 Sep 2012

SA urged to boost innovation

Science

SA urged to boost innovation

16 May 2012

Pharmaceuticals

Biovac to manufacture combo vaccines for Sanofi Pasteur

3 Apr 2012