Africa’s Breakthrough Lies in Shared Innovation – AUC Chairperson

Africa’s Breakthrough Lies in Shared Innovation – AUC Chairperson

ADDIS ABABA — The African Union Commission Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf during the Nineth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9) has called on governments and development partners to renew their commitment to innovation-driven collaboration. At the conference,the Chairperson emphasized that mobilizing private capital for quality infrastructure and innovation, advancing the digital economy and…

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Africa’s Breakthrough Lies in Shared Innovation – AUC Chairperson

Africa: Global Fund Secures Access to Breakthrough HIV Prevention Drug Lenacapavir for Low – and Middle-Income Countries

Geneva — A pivotal moment in the fight to end AIDS — ensuring lifesaving innovation reaches those who need it most, wherever they live The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) today announced it has signed an access agreement with Gilead Sciences to procure lenacapavir, a long-acting injectable for HIV…

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SA’s fibre bottleneck needs wireless breakthrough

SA’s fibre bottleneck needs wireless breakthrough

Justin Mackenzie, Managing Director, VO Connect. (Image: Supplied) South Africa’s digital economy is accelerating fast. With a projected 92% increase in national data centre capacity by 2030, rising from 501.1MW to 962.4MW, according to Africa Data Centres, businesses across sectors are demanding faster, more reliable internet connections than ever before. However, there’s a bottleneck that…

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Africa’s Breakthrough Lies in Shared Innovation – AUC Chairperson

Africa: Gene-Editing Breakthrough – UCT in Landmark Trial

In a ground-breaking first for South Africa and the African continent, local patients are participating in a pioneering international gene-editing clinical trial that may revolutionise treatment for hereditary angioedema (HAE), a rare and potentially fatal genetic disorder. The clinical trial, now under way at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Lung Institute, uses CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing…

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