Health

PARIS, France (AFP) — French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi and Britain’s GSK announced Thursday the start of final tests of their belated COVID vaccine as they race to add their jab to the world’s arsenal against the pandemic. […]

PARIS, France (AFP) — Scientists have for the first time managed to partially restore the sight of a blind patient by altering his cells, according to the results of a groundbreaking study published on Monday. […]

BRUSSELS (AP) — EU leaders agreed Tuesday to donate at least 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to poorer nations by the end of the year as supplies steadily rise across Europe. Gathered in Brussels […]

Grenada’s Prime Minister is high in praise for an initiative by the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States to increase the awareness of and deployment of renewable energy technology. Speaking at the recent launch of the […]

Moderna said Tuesday its COVID-19 vaccine strongly protects kids as young as 12, a step that could put the shot on track to become the second option for that age group in the United States. […]

(AFP)-Latin America must expand its vaccine production capabilities and bet on promising technologies, such as messenger RNA, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said Wednesday. “Expanding the capacity of Latin America and the Caribbean to […]

(CMC) — The director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr Carissa Etienne on Wednesday called for closing the “glaring gaps” in access to coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines in Latin America and the Caribbean. She […]

(CMC) — The Guyana-based Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) says it will convene a virtual three day-meeting in June to discuss the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on national and regional HIV […]