Dhaka, Dec 13 – The government on Sunday signed an agreement with Serum Institute of India Pvt Limited for procuring Covid-19 vaccine. Under the deal, Bangladesh will import three crore doses of SARS-Cov-2 AZD 1222 (Oxford/Astrazeneca Vaccine), (50 lakh in…
Dhaka, Dec 12 – The Bangladesh government has spent around Tk 4.5 lakh for the treatment of each Covid-19 patient admitted to intensive care units (ICU) of hospitals and some Tk 1.30 lakh on each of those recuperating in general…
By Adaora Okoli NEW ORLEANS, US, Dec 11 2020 (IPS) – When I contracted Ebola virus disease in August 2014 while working as a medical doctor in a well-known private hospital in Lagos, Nigeria, I was denied access to a…
Geneva, 7 Dec (D. Ravi Kanth) – Despite the rapidly worsening COVID-19 pandemic as well as growing concerns over the so-called “us and them” framework being adopted for access to new vaccines, the United States and its allies seem to…
Ivermectin has shown promise against Covid-19 in a clinical trial and patients receiving a five-day course of ivermectin have shown an early viral clearance and improvements of blood biomarkers compared with other two groups.
Scientists developing COVID-19 vaccines are optimistic that by the end of next year, all people everywhere will have access to safe and effective treatments against a disease which has disrupted the entire planet.
As the world awaits a Covid-19 vaccine, a US public health expert says the vast majority of people in Bangladesh and other parts of the world will have to wait a bit longer than expected due to limited global capacity…
Dhaha, Dec 04 – Stressing the importance of ensuring the universal, equitable, timely and affordable access to quality vaccines, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Covid-19 can never be controlled unless it is stopped everywhere.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Wednesday approved in principle a proposal of the Health Services Division to procure Covid-19 vaccine directly from any organisation through negotiations without following any bidding process.
The government will initially provide three crore free doses of Covid-19 vaccine to the citizens of the country selecting the recipients following the protocol of the World Health Organisation (WHO).
Geneva, 23 Nov (D. Ravi Kanth) — As the global pressure grows by the day for a waiver to suspend various provisions of the WTO’s TRIPS Agreement in combating the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States, the European Union, Japan, and…
Ap/UNB, Nov 23 – Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca said Monday that late-stage trials showed its coronavirus vaccine was up to 90% effective, giving public health officials hope they may soon have access to a vaccine that is cheaper and easier to…
UNICEF is working with major global airlines and freight providers to step up efforts to deliver close to 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines in 2021 to over 92 countries around the world as soon as vaccines become available.
19 Years On, Learning the Lessons from the Fight for Access to HIV Drugs Aruna Kashyap and Margaret Wurth With two companies, Pfizer and BioNTech, having announced promising early results for a Covid-19 vaccine they are developing, governments in the…
Geneva, 10 Nov (Kanaga Raja) – A group of United Nations human rights experts has criticized some governments that are trying to secure for their own citizens any future vaccine against COVID-19, arguing that any potential vaccine should be made…
US President-elect Joe Biden has appealed to Americans to wear a mask as the best way to “turn this pandemic around”. Mr Biden said the US faced a “very dark winter” and the “worst wave yet”, and Americans had to…
Berlin, Xinhua/UNB, Nov 09 – Chinese and German researchers, in a recently-published study, have suggested that Shufeng Jiedu capsules, a patented herbal drug composed of eight medicinal plants, might be “a promising herbal therapy for moderate COVID-19.” The scientific paper…
The government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Serum Institute of India Pvt Limited and Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd (BPL) to get three crore doses of SARS-Cov-2 AZD 1222 (Oxford/Astrazeneca Vaccine).
A case was filed in connection with the death of a ten-year-old boy ‘due to wrong treatment’ at a hospital in Sadar upazila on Monday.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said there are requests from Bangladesh, Myanmar, Qatar and Bhutan for clinical trials of Covid-19 vaccine.
Washington, AP/UNB, Oct 10 – They are not cures and it is not likely that everyone will be able to get them as President Donald Trump has suggested but experimental antibody drugs like the one Trump was given are among…
Claiming that they have got very promising results from pre-clinical trials on rabbits and mice of the coronavirus vaccine styled ‘BNCOVID’ developed by it, Bangladesh’s Globe Biotech Ltd on Monday said they want to bring it to the market by…
The antibody drug given to President Donald Trump has been called one of the most promising approaches to preventing serious illness from a COVID-19 infection, but is still in the experimental phase.
Mentioning that more than 170 countries have expressed interest in joining the COVAX Global Vaccines Facility, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) urged countries to join before Friday.
Dhaka, Sept 10 – Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the government is ready to procure Covid-19 vaccine from the country where it will be developed first.
UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said it will be leading procurement and supply of COVID-19 vaccinations to ensure that all countries have safe, fast and equitable access to initial doses when they are available.
DHAKA, Aug 28, 2020 (BSS) – Beximco Pharmaceuticals Limited (BPL) will invest in the Serum Institute of India (SII) Private Limited for the development of the Covid-19 vaccine.
More than 75 percent of people with mental, neurological and substance use disorders receive no treatment for their condition at all in low- and middle-income countries (MICs), global organisations say.
Dhaka, Aug 27: Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque Thursday said the government has approved the final or phase-3 human trial of a prospective COVID-19 vaccine by China’s private Sinovac Biotech Ltd, which appeared to be a forerunner in…
National Intellectual Property Administration has granted the China’s first patent for a COVID-19 vaccine.