Archive for February 2025

Julia Paredes López grew up in Cerro Colorado, Chihuahua, Mexico, an area where access to medical care was limited. At the age of 17, she witnessed pain, disease and death all around her as a measles outbreak claimed precious lives – all because of a lack of vaccines.   At the age of 50, López…

In the bid to achieve universal health coverage, we often speak of the need for better quality healthcare facilities, better trained doctors and nurses, increasing medicine and vaccine supply, and reducing out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures. These factors do, without a doubt, play a significant role in ensuring that people around the world are able to improve…

Rift Valley fever is a viral disease that affects both humans and livestock. Transmitted by mosquitoes, the virus was first discovered in the Rift Valley in Kenya in the 1930’s. Over the years, the disease has also been detected in other African countries and parts of the Middle East.   Since Rift Valley fever is…

In May 2024, life sciences industry analysts at McKinsey & Company released an article about innovation in vaccines. Their study compared trends they witnessed in 2019 to trends prevalent five years later, post the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic.   Within less than a decade, the vaccine development, production and business landscape was fundamentally altered.   In…