March 17th, 2021Despite a national Health Department statement this week that the on-selling of South Africa's Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine stocks is virtually concluded, debate continues...
March 10th, 2021South Africa's decision not deploy the AstraZeneca vaccine is financially expensive, poor in science, and goes against the government's own assurances that it would take...
The national Department of Health has issued a statement in which it denied a weekend newspaper report that there was tension between the political principals...
February 17th, 2021The muddled acquisition AstraZeneca vaccine from India, found on delivery to have an April expiry date and not the normal six-month one, continues, writes MedicalBrief....
February 10th, 2021South African authorities should have in advance leveraged participation in vaccine clinical trials to ensure better post-trial benefits, write Prof Keymanthri Moodley...
February 10th, 2021Faced with its first-choice Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine showing showing low efficacy against the South African variant of the coronavirus, the Department of Health has...
Daily Maverick reports that South Africa’s National Treasury has responded to article on alleged hold-ups in the signing of vaccine contracts over the issue of the...Medico-Legal
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has lodged an urgent application to the Western Cape High Court to compel government to develop and release a comprehensive plan for the...
January 20th, 2021South Africa's vaccine "strategy" is not a strategy but a goal. And an unrealistic one at that, writes Prof Shabir Madhi of the University of the Witwatersrand in The...
The African Union (AU), through the African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (Avatt), has secured 270m vaccine doses to supply African countries, with at least 50m doses...
