Making COVID vaccines in Africa: advances and sustainability issues

"Before the COVID pandemic, efforts to address the challenge of limited vaccine production on the continent yielded little success. The pandemic clearly exposed the limited capacity to manufacture vaccines. African countries were among the last in the world to begin rolling out COVID vaccines. This was largely due to limited access to vaccines and funding constraints.

As a result key stakeholders on the continent were joined by international partners, to advocate for the urgent and rapid establishment of COVID vaccines manufacturing capacity on the continent."

Please find the full article here : Making Covid Vaccines in Africa Advances and Sustainability Issues

Dr Benjamin Kagina, Senior Researcher and Vaccinologist at VACFA penned an article for The Conversation “Making COVID vaccines in Africa: advances and sustainability issues”. The article discusses the urgency of Africa’s vaccine manufacturing capacity in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the sustainability of new manufacturing capacity in future.