According to a 2024 study by the Africa CDC, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, manufacturing vaccines in Africa faces two challenges.
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India's journey to become the world's largest vaccine producer might offer insights to Africa in its quest to create a continental pharmaceutical industry.
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In 2021at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Aspen Pharmacare opened Africa's first COVID-19 vaccine plant in South Africa backed by US pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson. It was hailed as a trailblazer and a lifeline for Africa. Less than a year later, in 2022, the effort was abandoned.
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A study reported that countries in three regions could not account for varying quantities of food aid: North Africa, 3.8 percent; Sub-Saharan Africa, 4.0 percent; South America, 3.6 percent.
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Amid all the gloom and pessimism about Africa, there is good news that should make Africans walk with their heads a little higher: the African Continental Free Trade Area.
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