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COVID-19: New Zealand to buy 1.5 million doses of potential vaccine
12 October 2020 - The government has agreed to buy 1.5 million doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine from one of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Oct 2020
How patent law and medicine regulations could affect New Zealand's access to a COVID-19 vaccine
12 October 2020 - New Zealand has allocated an undisclosed sum, in the order of hundreds of millions of dollars, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Aug 2020
Three-quarters of New Zealanders intend to get COVID-19 vaccine
20 August 2020 - Three-quarters of New Zealanders say they would get the Covid-19 vaccine once it becomes available, new ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Jul 2020
PHARMAC asks COVID-19 vaccine developers to let Kiwi businesses make doses under contract in New Zealand
14 July 2020 - PHARMAC has sent a “shout out to the world” as a step towards securing its share ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Jul 2020
Request for information - COVID-19 vaccine research, manufacture and supply
13 July 2020 - PHARMAC, on behalf of the New Zealand Government COVID-19 vaccine strategy task force, is seeking information regarding ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 May 2020
COVID-19: Health Minister David Clark announces more medicines, vaccines in $160 million PHARMAC budget boost
10 May 2020 - Health Minister David Clark has rejected claims he and other Government ministers have been "gagged", as ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Apr 2020
Influenza vaccinations for 2020
29 April 2020 - There will be 1.768 million doses of influenza vaccine available this flu season, a 30% (400,000 doses) ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Apr 2020
Biopharmaceutical sector waging war on COVID-19 with over 60 vaccines and medicines
16 April 2020 - The World Health Organization has declared that COVID-19 is a pandemic and 144 countries across the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Apr 2020
COVID-19: NZ should develop vaccine programme, say scientists
15 April 2020 - New Zealand needs to act now to make sure it's not left behind when a successful ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Mar 2020
Covid-19: medicine, vaccine supply disruptions likely - PHARMAC
16 March 2020 - Drug buying agency PHARMAC is warning further disruptions to medicine supplies are inevitable, as measures are taken ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Dec 2019
Flawed forecasting? Why New Zealand ran out of MMR vaccine
16 December 2019 - PHARMAC's forecast for how many doses of MMR vaccine would be needed for 2019 was around ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Nov 2019
Plans for measles vaccinations to be distributed back through PHARMAC
26 November 2019 - Measles vaccinations in the south will likely go back to being distributed by PHARMAC after being ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Nov 2019
Meningitis Foundation calls for PHARMAC to protect everyone
15 November 2019 - Following PHARMAC’s announcement stating the meningococcal ACWY vaccine will be available free from next month for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Nov 2019
PHARMAC widening access to the meningococcal ACWY vaccine
14 November 2019 - The meningococcal ACWY vaccine will be available free from next month for young people in close ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Oct 2019
New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule - 1 November 2019
1 November 2019 - The November 2019 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...