{"id":13899,"date":"2022-01-25T15:16:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T14:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecomnewsafrique.com\/?post_type=news&p=13899"},"modified":"2022-01-25T15:16:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T14:16:29","slug":"south-africa-has-just-inaugurated-a-vaccine-manufacturing-unit-in-cape-town-which-should-allow-the-massive-production-of-drugs-and-vaccines-for-all-of-africa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ecomnewsafrique.com\/en\/2022\/01\/25\/south-africa-has-just-inaugurated-a-vaccine-manufacturing-unit-in-cape-town-which-should-allow-the-massive-production-of-drugs-and-vaccines-for-all-of-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa has just inaugurated a vaccine manufacturing unit in Cape Town which should allow the massive production of drugs and vaccines for all of Africa"},"content":"\n \n \n \nSouth Africa inaugurated a vaccine manufacturing unit in Cape Town on January 19. The announcement was made by the Presidency of the Republic, the same day, via a press release.\n\n \n \n\n\n \n \n \nThe objective of this initiative is to accelerate Africa’s self-sufficiency in pharmaceuticals, biologicals and vaccines. This vaccine production unit, called Nant SA, will focus on the mass production of drugs and vaccines for all of Africa.\n\n \n \n\n\n \n \n \n\u201cThis state-of-the-art vaccine manufacturing campus that we are officially launching today is part of a much larger initiative to propel Africa into a new era of health sciences,\u201d the CEO hinted. South African head of state, Cyril Ramaphosa.\n\n \n \n\n\n \n \n \nIt was also an opportunity to officially introduce the Coalition to Accelerate Africa’s Access to Advanced Healthcare (AAAH Coalition). It aims to unite biotech and pharmaceutical companies, government agencies, non-profit organizations and universities across the continent, with a view to harnessing skills and resources and identifying cross-country collaboration opportunities.\n\n \n \n\n\n \n \n \n\u201cOur goal is to cover the entire production value chain by improving existing capabilities and integrating new capabilities,\u201d Ramaphosa said.\n\n \n \n\n\n \n \n \nThis new pharmaceutical plant joins several structures such as Biovac, Aspen and Afrigen already based in South Africa.\n\n \n \n\n","author":15,"featured_media":13892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[1115,485,699,779,766,616,1173,999],"location":[505],"class_list":["post-13899","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-actualite-2","tag-covid19-3","tag-economy","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-south-africa","tag-vaccination-2","tag-vaccine","location-africa"],"short_url":"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3IA90pd","have_related_news":"done","chapo":"

Covid-19 has highlighted the flaws in health systems on the African continent. 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