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Rwanda’s prestigious project for vaccine manufacturing on right path

June 25, 2022

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Rwandan President Paul Kagame and BioNtech’s CEO Ugur Sahin launched the construction of the proposed messenger RNA vaccine factory in Kigali, the first of Africa’s three planned projects for producing vaccines against Covid-19 and other diseases. The production will start by early 2024. The proposed vaccine manufacturing unit also will produce medicines to prevent malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV, major causes of mortality on the African continent.

Paul Kagama called the project ground-breaking. Production will include vaccines against Covid, as also pioneering treatments currently in development against malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV, diseases that are ravaging Africa.

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Africa is the world’s least vaccinated continent against Covid-19. Less than 20% of its 1.2 billion population have received two doses of vaccine.