and translate this information into things like diagnostics, novel diagnostics, and then a novel vaccine. all right, 0k. as you say, the big missing piece is vaccines. africa has 16% of the global population, and yet when it comes to vaccine production, and that s what i want to look at with you, it is only home to 0.1% of vaccine production facilities. africa just constantly relies on advocacy to get expensive drugs and vaccines which are made in richer countries, and so you re in the role of always being a supplicant. when is that going to change, and when are clever scientists like you going to make your own vaccines in africa? well, if there s anything to learn from this pandemic or from the african leadership i mean, from african leaders it s absolutely the fact that our overreliance and our overdependence
which means we had an opportunity at that point to take this information and translate this information into things like diagnostics, novel diagnostics, and then a novel vaccine. all right, 0k. as you say, the big missing piece is vaccines. africa has 16% of the global population, and yet when it comes to vaccine production, and that s what i want to look at with you, it is only home to 0.1% of vaccine production facilities. africa just constantly relies on advocacy to get expensive drugs and vaccines which are made in richer countries, and so you re in the role of always being a supplicant. when is that going to change, and when are clever scientists like you going to make your own vaccines in africa? well, if there s anything to learn from this pandemic or from the african leadership i mean, from african leaders it s absolutely the fact that our overreliance and our overdependence on
into things like diagnostics, novel diagnostics, and then a novel vaccine. all right, 0k, as you say, the big missing piece is vaccines. and africa has 16% of the global population. and yet when it comes to vaccine production, and that s what i want to look at with you, it is only home to 0.1% of vaccine production facilities. africa just constantly relies on advocacy to get expensive drugs and vaccines which are made in richer countries, and so you re in the role of always being a supplicant. when is that going to change and when are clever scientists like you going to make your own vaccines in africa? well, if there s anything to learn from this pandemic or from the african leadership i mean, from african leaders it s absolutely the fact that our overreliance and our overdependence on supplication, as you mentioned, zeinab, on foreign aid, has failed us.
State wants Haffkine to produce Covaxin
ByYogesh NaikYogesh Naik / Updated: Feb 21, 2021, 07:05 IST
The Maharashtra medical education department has written to the Centre and the Indian Council of Medical Research (
ICMR) to allow the state- owned
Haffkine Bio-Pharmaceutical Corporation Limited to manufacture
Covaxin, which is currently being manufactured by
Bharat Biotech.
State medical education departments secretary Saurabh Vijay said, “We have written to the central government to allow us transfer of technology so that Covaxin can be manufactured in Haffkine’s plants in Mumbai and other places. If they give us aid and transfer of technology, then we can upgrade our plants and start production in six months, and it will add to total capacity. We are awaiting a response from the Centre.’’
and that s what i want to look at with you, it is only home to 0.1% of vaccine production facilities. africa just constantly relies on advocacy to get expensive drugs and vaccines which are made in richer countries, and so you re in the role of always being a supplicant. when is that going to change, and when are clever scientists like you going to make your own vaccines in africa? well, if there s anything to learn from this pandemic or from the african leadership i mean, from african leaders it s absolutely the fact that our overreliance and our overdependence on supplication, as you mentioned, zeinab, on foreign aid, has failed us. and we can see today how vulnerable we are. we could see today how we can t even take care of ourselves. we are waiting for india, we are waiting for europe to come to our aid. having said this, i think it is. if there is anything africa should do, it s actually to rely on the intellectuals within africa and also in the diaspora to come