Vaccines for Africa: WHO plans a vaccine tech hub - to be built in SA

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced the establishment of the first messenger RNA (mRNA) technology transfer hub for Covid-19 vaccines - and it will be built in SA.

Among other functions, the hub will allow for manufacturing of vaccines, medicines and other health-related commodities to scale up production.

"Through this initiative and others, we will change the narrative of an Africa that is a centre of disease and poor development. We will create a narrative that celebrates our successes in reducing the burden of disease and in advancing self-reliance and sustainable development. This will enhance our capacity to take responsibility for the health of our people," he said. WHO officials and French President Emmanuel Macron, who attended the briefing virtually.

"We from Africa have been calling for the capability, capacity that needs to be transferred to Africa so that we make our own vaccines. It's been shown now that we just cannot continue to rely on vaccines that are made outside Africa because they never come, they never arrive on time, and the people continue to die.Ramaphosa has consistently pushed for a temporary waiver of vaccines' intellectual property rights in order to speed up production.

"With this investment of technology, knowledge and expertise, we will go beyond the development and manufacture of vaccines into a new era of innovation and progress," he said.

 

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