Organisation: Gavi

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business

Drug firm AstraZeneca doubles coronavirus vaccine manufacturing capacity

Drugmaker AstraZeneca has doubled manufacturing capacity for its potential coronavirus vaccine to two billion doses in a handful of deals involving Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates that guarantee early supply to lower income countries.

comment-analysis

Jennifer Kahn: How to stop the next pandemic before it starts

comment-analysis

Time to make societal needs priority in drug development

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Ngozi Okonjo Iweala and Brahima Coulibaly: Africa urgently needs Covid-19 aid, for all the world’s sake

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2019 can be beginning of the end for an ancient disease

world

LATEST: One person confirmed dead from Ebola as Congo probes total of nine cases

Bill and Melinda Gates: Insufficient funding to tackle health needs of poorest worldwide

Bill and Melinda Gates look at the need for renewed effort and more funding to tackle poverty and hunger worldwide

Tue, 26 Jan, 2016

We must deliver on our promises and the UN goal of eradicating poverty by 2030

It is possible to achieve the UN goal of eradicating poverty by 2030 but to do so will require political will, global co-operation and human ingenuity, write Bill and Melinda Gates

Thu, 21 Jan, 2016

3,000 dead from ebola as vaccines set to start

The World Health Organisation said it expects to begin small-scale use of two experimental ebola vaccines in West Africa early next year and in the meantime, transfusions of survivors’ blood may offer the best hope of treatment.

Sat, 27 Sep, 2014

Emerging country vaccine suppliers are vital to children

VACCINES work wonders.

Sat, 28 Dec, 2013

Aldi Exquisite Collection Gavi DOCG 2012

EVERY WEEK seems to bring news of yet another Bordeaux Chateau being sold to a Chinese conglomerate or insurance company so it is comforting to know that there are still some family operated wine producers that are thriving.

Sun, 28 Jul, 2013

Gates and Britain pledge €1.6bn to vaccinate poor

BRITAIN and Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates have joined forces to pledge more than half of the €2.6 billion sought to vaccinate nearly 250 million children against preventable diseases.

Tue, 14 Jun, 2011

Wine

SOMETIMES you’d think wine was made in only half a dozen places on Earth.

Sat, 09 Apr, 2011

Robinson helps launch vaccines scheme

Former President Mary Robinson has helped launch a massive vaccine scheme that could save millions of lives from killer diseases.

Thu, 26 Jun, 2008