Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced funding for the advancement of a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate called M72/AS01E (M72) through a Phase III clinical trial. The Phase III clinical trial for M72, which is estimated to cost around $550 million, will be funded by Wellcome (up to $150 million) and the…
Half of the world’s population still does not have adequate access to safe drinking water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) which could have prevented at least 1.4 million deaths and 74 million disability-adjusted life years in 2019, this is according to the latest report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and an accompanying article published in…
Gulu Regional Referral Hospital in Uganda has recently begun operating a computerized tomography (CT) scan, which had remained idle for eight months due to a lack of a specialist radiologist. The machine was delivered by the Health Ministry in November of the previous year. The hospital launched the operation of the CT scan a week…