Africa & Middle East

The new office strengthens Mayo Clinic’s presence in the Middle East and provides a direct link between patients in Saudi Arabia and its medical campuses in the US and UK.

The minimally invasive technology enables doctors to monitor patients remotely and identify changes in their condition before symptoms become severe.

Schizophrenia is a chronic and complex mental health disorder that can significantly affect patients, their families and caregivers when inadequately managed.

Since South Sudan introduced SMC in 2022, the programme has helped protect children aged three to 59 months from malaria during peak transmission periods.

Milly Glass SEZ director Mohamed Rashid said the company expects to break ground by the end of August 2026 and begin producing amber pharmaceutical bottles by July 2027.

Researchers found that women who delivered prematurely consumed significantly lower amounts of protein, vitamins and essential minerals than those who carried their pregnancies to term.

The financing forms part of Biovac’s expansion programme, which aims to increase the company’s annual manufacturing capacity to as many as 500 million vaccine doses.

This highly specific dependence could provide an opportunity for researchers to investigate new approaches to malaria treatment by targeting the parasite’s ability to obtain or use these fats.

The funding round also attracted investment from the Global Innovation Fund, Africa Health Ventures and other undisclosed investors.

In Mozambique, the 2022–2023 Demographic and Health Survey places the under-five mortality rate at 60 deaths per 1,000 live births.