The World Health Organization (WHO) is planning to create a second center to train countries to produce their own mRNA vaccines, as part of its project to get injections for COVID-19 manufactured in developing nations. low and middle income.
In a speech at a vaccine conference, the director general of the whoTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus did not name the countries that will participate in the expansion of the project, saying more details would be announced later.
The health ministers of Argentina, South Korea, Serbia and Vietnam, as well as the foreign minister of Indonesia, are scheduled to participate in a WHO briefing on the technology transfer center later on Wednesday.
The news comes after the UN agency created a technology transfer center in Cape Town, South Africa, last year to provide companies in poor and middle-income countries with the know-how to produce COVID vaccines. -19 based on mRNA technology.
Cape Town-based Afrigen Biologics has used Moderna’s publicly available vaccine sequence to produce its own version of the US company’s COVID vaccine in laboratories and is working toward commercial production.
Last week, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia became the first in Africa to receive the technology to make vaccines from mRNA to scale and according to international standards.
On Wednesday, Tedros noted that 20 countries had so far expressed an interest in receiving training on mRNA vaccine development from the South African center.
Source: Gestion
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