London, Dec.27, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Some Nigerian scientists have kicked against planned roll-out of covid-19 vaccination in Nigeria saying that immunising Nigerians with COVID-19 vaccine when clinical trials have not been done in the country is very risky and should be reconsidered. They also expressed worries over its likely long-term impacts. READ ALSO: NIGERIAN AIR FORCE TREATS ...

London, Sep. 21, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Africa hosts the second largest covid-19 related clinical trials in the world after the United States. Data from the website www.clinicaltrials.org shows that there are 166 Covid-19 trials taking place in Africa, as compared to 710 in the United States alone, and 107 in Canada. South America has 162, China 60 and India ...

London, Sep. 20, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Africa will soon begin phase three clinical trials for herbal medicine for the treatment of covid-19 This is made possible after the Regional Expert Committee on Traditional Medicine for COVID-19 formed by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention and the African Union Commission for ...

London, June 1, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Five new drugs are to be trialled in 30 hospitals across the country in the race to find a treatment for Covid-19, it has emerged. Just days after global trials of hydroxychloroquine, the drug promoted by Donald Trump as a cure, were halted, British scientists are looking to sign up hundreds of ...

London, May 24, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The status of  African wormwood or  umhlonyane, in traditional medicine is set to increase after the KwaZulu-Natal government in South Africa asked a laboratory to test if can actually be used to cure Covid-19.  The herb, whose potential to cure the virus was first touted by Madagascar, was among a number of indigenous ...

London, May 23, 2020 (AltAfrica)-African researchers are crowdfunding -raising public funds to carry out their own clinical trials on the artemisia plant to investigate its potential for treatment of Covid-19. A herbal tea based on artemisia extract has recently been touted by Madagascar’s government as a treatment for the coronavirus. However, no comprehensive clinical trials ...

London, May 13, 2020 (AltAfrica)-A meeting of 70 experts on African traditional medicine has agreed with the World Health Organisation, WHO that clinical trials for all African herbal medicines must be carried out and included in the potential drugs/vaccine for the treatment of covid-19 The virtual meeting with WHO Africa centred on the role of ...

London, May 6, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Kenyan scientists have announced their readiness to commence clinical trials for three drugs that can potentially treat persons infected with coronavirus, Kenyan Daily Nation newspaper reports. The scientists say they are seeking approvals for the trials to determine if Remdesivir, an antiretroviral drug together with anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, and Lopinavir/ritonavir, also used ...

London, April 30, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Remdesivir is widely considered to be a front-runner among the investigational therapies being tested as treatments for COVID-19. Now, a major trial has revealed that patients on the antiviral remdesivir recovered more than 30 percent faster than those on a placebo. A top US scientist hailed the drug’s “clear-cut” benefit. It ...

London, April 26, 2020 (AltAfrica)-A “suit of armour” against Covid-19 is the aim of a groundbreaking South African clinical trial that will vaccinate its first participant at Tygerberg Hospital early next week. If successful the experiment, using a cheap 100-year-old TB vaccine, will transform a small band of unknown Cape Town researchers into superheroes. Conducted ...