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The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said last October that if all plans are realized on the continent, capacity to formulate/fill and finish vaccines would more than double the African projected vaccine demand in 2030
The assembly of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union, which started their meeting in Addis Ababa yesterday (17th February) among other things, will discuss the vaccine policy to be followed by the continent to avert a situation that had happened during the pandemic days.
The EU’s former commission president who now chairs the Board of the Gavi Vaccine Alliance Jose Manuel Barroso was in Ethiopia to attend the summit. He called for giving priority to the so-called social sector, health, and education. He added that the strategy was widely shared among the leaders of Africa and stressed the need to give priority to these sectors.
It may be recalled that the first mRNA vaccine factory in Rwanda is under construction. The project exemplifies Africa’s efforts to avoid a repeat of the failures of the COVID-19 vaccine’s global distribution. Barroso said that ten years from now there would be more capabilities of manufacturing vaccines in Africa than there are now. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said last October that if all plans are realized on the continent, capacity to formulate/fill and finish vaccines would more than double the African projected vaccine demand in 2030.
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Importantly, Africa CDC along with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and PATH released a new briefing paper for current and future vaccine manufacturing plans for Africa.
