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The European Union’s (EU) and African leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron and Rwandan President Paul Kagame, called for “technology sharing” and “innovation support” to produce more vaccines locally in the world to combat pandemics
The European Union’s (EU) and African leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron and Rwandan President Paul Kagame, called for “technology sharing” and “innovation support” to produce more vaccines locally in the world to combat pandemics.
The French, Rwandan, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Senegalese President Macky Sall, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus raised these concerns in an article published in Le Monde. Africa is the world’s least vaccinated continent against Covid-19, with less than 20% of its 1.2 billion people receiving two doses of the vaccine.
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Africa’s first messenger RNA vaccine factory opened in June in Rwanda. It aims to produce treatments for Covid-19 and other diseases for millions of people across the continent by early 2024. South Africa also opened a Covid vaccine factory in January. Senegal is also set to become a regional hub for vaccine manufacturing. They call for more training of personnel, more regulation, in Africa and elsewhere and more investment for pandemic preparedness .mRNA technology can also be adapted to fight other diseases, such as HIV infection, tuberculosis, malaria, and leishmaniasis, they note.
