Successful proposals will secure fully funded postdoctoral research positions AstraZeneca today launched a global R&D Postdoctoral Challenge to help accelerate ideas to transform the treatment of some of the world’s most complex diseases. The challenge, launched at EXPO 2020 Dubai, invites final year MD and/or PhD students and postdoctoral researchers from across the world to …
Over time, women in Africa have made impressive strides in pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, fields historically dominated by men. In spite of the significant progress, there is still more room for improvement to enable more women break into these fields. A few women on the continent have made and are still …
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Healthcare on the African continent has been a huge challenge for a long time. Every year, lack of access to basic health care results in millions of deaths and stories of pain and suffering. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), ‘a majority of Africans, mostly the poor and those in the middle-income bracket, rely …
According to the World Health Organisation, a total of 1.5 million people died from TB in 2020, making the infection the 13th leading cause of death and the second leading infectious killer after COVID-19. Eight countries account for two thirds of the total, with India leading the count, followed by China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan, …
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The Company is committed to expanding and accelerating vaccine supply to the African region through 2022 and beyond to help governments reach their vaccination targets One year ago, the first doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine began to arrive in countries across the world through the COVAX initiative, as part of the largest global vaccination …
AstraZeneca marks anniversary of first COVAX vaccine deliveries to Africa Read More »
Pat and Partners International Foundation has donated assorted medical consumables and drugs to the Amanfrom Health Center, Accra. The gesture is part of it’s support to the healthcare needs of health facilities in the koose zone of the Adentan Municipal Assembly under it’s flagship program “Operation Random Acts of Kindness” Pat & Partners International is …
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Professor Margaret Gyapong is a Professor of Applied Health Social Science at UHAS, and adjunct professor of Global Health at Georgetown University. She is the third woman in the world and the first black African woman to receive the coveted Outstanding Female Scientist Prize from the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership for her work …
A newborn baby dies in Ghana once every 15 minutes, according to UNICEF. That is approximately 29,000 newborn deaths each year, many of which are the result of breathing difficulties. Every year in Ghana around 140,000 babies—14 percent—are born premature and 8,400 of these preterm babies die in under 30 days. Like many other developing countries, …
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A woman receiving treatment for leukaemia in the United States has become the first woman and the third person to date to be cured of HIV after receiving a bone marrow transplant from a donor who was naturally resistant to the virus that causes AIDS. The unnamed 64-year-old woman of mixed race is also the …
Scientists Cure Woman of HIV, Signals Hope For Infected People Read More »
New data from ongoing trial showed increased antibody response against Beta, Delta, Alpha and Gamma variants following third dose booster with AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine Additional analysis showed increased antibody response to Omicron after a third dose Positive results from a preliminary analysis of an ongoing safety and immunogenicity trial (D7220C00001) showed that AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine …
New AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine data further support its use as third dose booster Read More »
