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ViewSouth Africa deepens science partnership with Turkey

Study centre launched and memorandum of understanding signed, with more details due after February meeting

ViewCanada and DRC embark on joint $2.8m mpox study

Partnership will investigate viral genetics, undetected spread and vaccine effectiveness

ViewWellcome to ramp up spending, despite financial loss

Charitable health funder sees investments drop six per cent but vows to spend £16 billion

ViewBiden creates African diaspora advisory council

Group will advise US government on strengthening links with people of African descent

ViewSouth Africa supports Emirati mission to the moon

Hartebeesthoek ground station will help Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre talk to its lunar rover

ViewSouth Africa and Italy partner on physics

Partnership will aim to bolster joint research and exchange of scientists in computational science

ViewFreeman launches £119m UK fund for global R&D collaboration

International Science Partnership Fund will support work on major challenges such as climate change

ViewJeremy Farrar to leave Wellcome for World Health Organization

Charity’s director to step down in February 2023 to become WHO chief scientist

ViewTB research funding hits record high but far short of target

Stop TB Partnership director says US$1bn funding for tuberculosis R&D is nothing to celebrate

ViewUK funding cuts to neglected diseases scheme a ‘bitter blow’

Whole health systems suffered from Ascend programme’s early termination, say scientists

ViewEurope-Africa innovation plan set for adoption next year

Milestone scheduled for research and innovation ministerial meeting in June 2023

ViewHydrogen, health and climate change top Ramaphosa UK visit

Science takes prominence as South African president is first head of state hosted by King

ViewJapan injects US$5m into parasitic disease drug research

Money should help develop treatment that breaks transmission cycles of elephantiasis and river blindness

ViewNasa and South Africa cement lunar exploration pact

South African communications antenna will help Earthlings return to the Moon

ViewAnti-blackness in global health more than just visa denials

‘Something pathological’ about not seeing it, Nairobi gathering hears

ViewRoger Glass: The people we fund end up on the front lines

Fogarty centre director proud that the people his initiative trains are leading Africa’s Covid-19 response

ViewUK may extend cut to overseas aid spending

Rumoured two-year extension of aid budget cut could be bad news for R&D

ViewSouth Africa hosts first Nobel symposia outside Scandinavia

Africans scientists have fought “tooth and nail” to make their voices heard, launch hears

ViewGhana launches OR Tambo entrepreneurship chair

Nathaniel Boso tasked with advancing research in technology entrepreneurship and youth employability

ViewAfrican scheme to train social science and humanities leaders

Fellowships funded through new foundation will offer up to US$65,000 over two years

ViewResearch fairness tool needs donations to survive

Initiative that promotes equitable partnerships says it cannot pay staff from 2023

ViewResearch collaboration within Africa: growing but still weak

Co-publishing between African nations grew thirteen-fold between 2002 and 2019

ViewStill no firm dates for delayed African health grants

Researchers in limbo as millions in grants promised by UK-based funders delayed over 18 months

ViewA call to action on fair research funding

Funders must be sensitive to local needs and priorities, global meeting hears

ViewQ&A: Tawana Kupe on new partnership with Nairobi

African research universities can leverage each other’s strengths to tackle challenges, says Pretoria vice-chancellor

View‘Disagreement’ over Ukraine war derails G20 education pact

Ministers failed to adopt draft declaration ahead of November summit in Bali

View$200m scholarship fund for medical studies in Rwanda

Paul E. Farmer scholarships will support 3,000 students from around the world over 25 years

View‘Great interest’ in joint PhDs for Wits and Northeastern University

Training programmes expected to start with physics and expand from there

ViewUS aid to fund more local organisations in Africa

Initiative announced this week aims to “elevate” African leadership in USAID programmes

ViewWorld ‘in trouble’ after pandemic boom in TB cases, deaths

Bold solutions needed to regain upper hand against old foe, conference hears