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The Challenge: Access to safe, effective vaccines is critical to ending the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccines help prevent serious illness, hospitalization, and death. While some countries have widescale vaccination efforts underway, the vast majority of people across the African continent have yet to receive a single shot. In fact, as of August 2021, the Africa Centres […]
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By Aimable Twahirwa An agreement signed between the Rwandan government and the Africa Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation (APTF) gives impetus to Africa’s domestic industry with the hope of helping the continent tackle vaccine inequity and fill the critical gap in vaccine manufacturing. The agreement to operationalize the foundation was signed in Kigali, Rwanda, in late 2023. What […]
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The Institut Pasteur de Dakar (IPD) and the Mastercard Foundation have announced a historic $45 million partnership named MADIBA (Manufacturing in Africa for Disease Immunization and Building Autonomy), a significant step towards achieving vaccine manufacturing autonomy in Africa. The multi-year project, aimed at developing and building a world-class workforce to support vaccine manufacturing, will establish a Centre of Training Excellence […]
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