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Covid-19 : SOUTH AFRICA TO BEGIN FIRST VACCINE TRIAL IN AFRICA.

South Africa, the country with the highest Coronavirus cases in Africa, will roll out the first coronavirus vaccine trial in Africa this week. The vaccine, known as ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, was developed by the Oxford Jenner Institute and it is already being evaluated in Britain, where 4,000 participants have signed up for the trial. South Africa […]

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COVID19: FEMALE SOUTH AFRICAN HIV SCIENTIST ” Prof. Gita Ramjee “DIES

Top South African female scientist Prof Gita Ramjee has reportedly passed on. Prof Ramjee, who died in hospital near the coastal city of Durban on Tuesday, had been working as the chief scientific officer at the Aurum Institute, a leading authority in the fight against HIV and TB. The HIV researcher fell ill after returning […]