Africa's top public health body urged all those purchasing Covid-19 vaccines for the continent to place orders with South Africa's Aspen Pharmacare , saying the market was key to developing vaccine manufacturing on the continent.
it is quite a big deal, if we look at the past, african countries together with other regional bodies such as the africa cdc and who has been asking countries that have been able to develop covid 19 vaccines to share the technical know how so that countries that have pharmaceutical companies that are able to do so would be able to produce clothing 19 vaccines and this will mean that we would reduce the logistical cost, and i would not happen, we have seen the example that afrigen has after the example that afrigen has after the who and also through moderna both there. i ve asked moderna for that technical know how but moderna declined and used information that was publicly available to make a copy of the moderna vaccine. we are still not sure what to call it as of yet, it still at the preclinical stages, but the scientists at the afrigen at the
really a co ordination across the world health organization, unicef and others is really helpful to us because they also have mapped where the greatest needs are around the world, they been working directly with governments to understand what their vaccination plans are. obviously our agency like the centres for disease control also has relationships with countries as well as regional bodies like the pan american health organisation or kuraby in public health association as well as the africa cdc and so well as the africa cdc and so we feel assured that where these vaccines are going, they will be used for their purpose. we know that these vaccinations work, right? so this is the message we are sharing at home, we still have work to do at home within our borders so we are working to reach those who haven t yet been reached but we know that people are lining up readily around the world and i think we are very happy to be able to do both, right? provide doses here still for people who ab
Is the pandemic over? Depends on where you are, according to Dr. John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "If you are sitting in Africa, they have the glasses half empty. And if you are sitting in the global note, the glass might be half full," he said during a livestream discussion on equitable vaccine distribution hosted by GZERO Media in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Nkengasong explained that the optimism seen now in countries like the US or the UK, where so many people have been vaccinated, is "not exactly what we are seeing in the part of the world that I'm serving." Africans are still very worried about COVID, he said. Across the continent, the pandemic is still seen as unpredictable, and its trajectory remains uncertain.