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drjohn nkengasong, director of the africa centres for disease control and prevention, thank you very much indeed for coming on hardtalk. thank you. hello there, it was a bit cooler on thursday. we still managed temperatures into the low 20s in northern scotland. highest temperatures were across east anglia and the south east 25 degrees in suffolk. you may not find temperatures quite as high as that in the next couple of days but for many it will still be dry and there will be warm spells of sunshine, as well. the fly in the ointment is all this cloud we have kept a close eye on moving up
that that technology can actually begin to have a ripple effect on our ability to manufacture malaria vaccines, hiv vaccines and other vaccines that are more specific to africa and the developing world. 0k, finally, drjohn nkengasong, ayoade alakija, co chair of the africa vaccine delivery alliance, says, no one will help us in africa if we do not attempt to help ourselves. it is time to stop feeding off the scraps from the table of high income countries. this whole debate goes wider than health, doesn t it? i agree entirely with her. we have to take our own health security and developmental agenda into our hands and we have seen how devastating a disease can be on our ability for the continent to meet its continental aspirations, including the continental free trade agreement and other programmes that the african union has put on the table to meet our agenda 2063. so clearly, our health security should be central to our developmental agenda.
welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. it has been a well used mantra during the covid pandemic no one is safe anywhere in the world until everyone is safe everywhere. well, the reality is far from this, particularly in africa. the continent has received only a fraction of the vaccine doses it needs for its 1.2 billion population. it s gotjust over a0 million doses. and the international scheme africa is relying on to obtain covid 19 vaccines cannot secure enough supplies because of a global shortage. meanwhile, some richer nations have stockpiled enough doses to vaccinate their populations several times over. my guest is the director of the africa centres for disease control and prevention, drjohn nkengasong. does africa have a strategy to tackle covid 19?
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