Africa Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP) partners with bioMérieux to facilitate supply of high-quality COVID-19 diagnostics
BIOMÉRIEUX and the Africa Medical Supplies Platform (AMSP), have announced a new partnership to facilitate the supply of high-quality diagnostic solutions from the bioMérieux Pandemic Response Portfolio to African Union Member States. The AMSP portal is an online marketplace that enables the supply of COVID-19-related critical diagnostics and medical equipment and consumables in Africa and
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Knowing Zimbabwe Recommitments To The ICPD Agenda At Nairobi Summit
The year 2019 marked a huge milestone for UNFPA globally, Zimbabwe included, as UNFPA acelebrated 50 years and counting of delivering for women and young people on the Sexual Reproductive Health and Right (SRHR) agenda. In the same year 2019, the agency celebrated 25 years of commitment to the International Conference on Population and Development
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LANDMARK MOVE: South Africa & India propose no patents on COVID-19 medicines, tools during pandemic
IN a landmark move, India and South Africa on 2 October asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) to allow all countries to choose to neither grant nor enforce patents and other intellectual property (IP) related to COVID-19 drugs, vaccines, diagnostics and other technologies for the duration of the pandemic, until global herd immunity is achieved.
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