South African lab technician Nozipho Mlotshwa was waiting for the test results for a potential HIV vaccine, which has eluded ...

When Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020, South Africa was caught short as it did not have the vaccine manufacturing capability. From its initial Covid case reported on March 5, 2020, the country quickl ...

South Africa is considering swapping or selling the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine against coronavirus, the health minister says. The country has one and half million doses of the AstraZeneca jab.

There are concerns that the new Covid-19 variant in South Africa could "weaken the impact" of vaccines Scientists in South Africa say there is a "reasonable concern" that the new variant of Covid ...

South Africa’s Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said Sunday that his country would temporarily halt the use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine that was due to be rolled out later this month.

KEMRI Lab scientist Dr. Samson Limbaso works on coronavirus samples obtained from the public at the Sample Management and Reception facility in Nairobi on March 24, 2020. [Stafford Ondego ...

IAVI (the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative) has started screening subjects to be included in the study, called IAVI G003, at centres in Rwanda and South Africa, said the biotech. Moderna's ...