Keyword: Africa

Merck just last month won the world's first licensure for an Ebola vaccine. Now, an international group authorized funding to establish a stockpile.

Merck and international agencies are preparing to roll out the experimental vaccine, hoping to stifle a new wave of cases that has killed 19 people.

As CEO Emma Walmsley remakes the company's approach in emerging markets, GlaxoSmithKline will cut jobs in sub-Saharan Africa and rely on distributors.  

Nigeria has been looking for ways to get more drugs manufactured in the country while Servier’s generics unit Biogaran has been looking to expand. Now both will get what they are looking for.

Catalyst Principal Partners, a private equity firm focused on East Africa, has picked up Zenufa Laboratories, Tanzania’s second-largest generic drug maker.

The prices of certain medicines in Egypt will jump by 20% as the country attempts to deal with the increasing problem of medicine shortages.