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  • Strengthening pharmaceutical innovation and access to medicines in Africa
    November 2009
    AU/NEPAD and COHRED are cooperating to help African countries build human and regulatory capacity and infrastructure for pharmaceuticals, and implement both the African Union Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plan and the WHO Global Strategy and Plan of Action.

  • CSIR assists with human capital development in science and technology transfer
    May 2009
    CSIR Biosciences in March welcomed two doctoral students from Tanzania and Malawi as part of a human capital development initiative to boost the science, engineering and technology base on the continent and indirectly assist African countries to progress towards a knowledge-based economy.

  • NEPAD/SANBio Livestock R&D Node Launch
    23 March 2009
    The launch of the NEPAD/SANBio Node on Livestock Research and Development (R&D) in Southern Africa marks the beginning of a process that will see improvement of livestock productivity in the sub Saharan African Countries that are severely constrained by vector borne parasites and the diseases they cause.

  • SANBio Hosts a Regional Training Workshop in Bioinformatics
    16 January 2009
    14-16 January, 2009 saw the launch of the inaugural regional training workshop for the NEPAD Southern Africa Network for Biosciences (SANBio).

  • Finland Grant to SANBio
    17 December 2008
    The partnership agreement between Finland and South Africa aimed at strengthening the NEPAD/SANBio Network was signed on Wednesday 10th December 2008 at the Department of Science and Technology (DST) Headquarters in Pretoria, South Africa.