KUSENI DLAMINI: Covid-19 highlights Africa's medical industry challenge
The pandemic revealed a lack of global solidarity, and of African capacity
27 March 2022 - 06:24
Africa needs to create and continuously improve a manufacturing capacity for vaccines and other health-care products.
This is indispensable if the continent is to address, as indeed it must, its huge health-security deficit and attain a significant and sustainable measure of vaccine and health-care sovereignty and security. ..
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