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malaria

03 Aug 2021

Team Europe pledges support for eradicateMalaria

By Staff Writer

Backed by the eradicateMalaria initiative, German biotech company BioNTech SE (“BioNTech”) are working on a project to develop a malaria vaccine candidate based on its proprietary mRNA technology. The project also aims to expand vaccine production capacity across Africa. BioNTech co-developed the first mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine with its partner Pfizer. The company has benefited from...
27 Nov 2020

Goodbye Malaria joins the #AfricaMaskWeek initiative

By Staff Writer

A new initiative #AfricaMaskWeek encourages the people of Africa to continue wearing masks as a protective measure against the spread of COVID-19. This week marks the launch of #AfricaMaskWeek, an effort led by Pandemic Action Network. Social benefit organisation, Goodbye Malaria supports this drive as it continues to produce and sell its patented shweshwe masks...
12 May 2020

Bayer calls for continuity of malaria prevention during COVID-19 pandemic

By Staff Writer

As the resilience of the most robust health systems around the world continues to be tested in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic Bayer encourages countries especially vulnerable to malaria, to ensure the continuity of malaria prevention and control measures in support of the appeal from the World Health Organisation (WHO). Nearly half the world’s...
25 Sep 2019

World’s first malaria vaccine launched in Kenya

By Staff Writer

The malaria vaccine pilot programme is now fully underway in Africa, as Kenya joins Ghana and Malawi to introduce the landmark vaccine as a tool against a disease that continues to affect millions of children in Africa. The vaccine, known as RTS,S, will be available to children from six months of age in selected areas...
29 Apr 2019

Meet South Africa’s guilt-free chocolate

By Staff Writer

South African brands Goodbye Malaria and Nova Chocolate have teamed up to launch a feel-good, taste-good, does-good, artisanal chocolate that uses ethically sourced ingredients. Does it get any better than that? Well, actually it does. Every Bite Counts is also sugar-and-gluten-free, and 100 per cent vegan-friendly, removing all the guilt without compromising on the taste.
07 Mar 2019

Bayer launches a new tool in the fight against malaria

By Staff Writer

With nearly half of the world’s population at risk of contracting malaria, primarily in sub Saharan Africa, stepping up the fight against the disease has never been a more pressing challenge. Bayer is rising to this challenge as it launches a new Indoor Residual Spray (IRS), Fludora Fusion which is set to make great strides...