Recent media reports have highlighted a shortage of polio vaccines in Kenya, caused by several factors, including delayed disbursement of global funds earmarked for health programmes and the ...

Three years after the World Health Organization (WHO) launched Africa’s first mRNA vaccine technology transfer programme, the effort is beginning to pay off. The project was born during the COVID-19 ...

The first clinical trial is believed to have been carried out in 1747, when a Scottish doctor treated patients on a ship with scurvy using a range of remedies. Those told to eat citrus fruits ...

Last month, after more than three years of intensive negotiations, member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) came together at the 78th World Health Assembly (WHA78) in Geneva, Switzerland, ...