So far, the doomsday scenarios some feared when the pandemic reached Africa have not materialized
— an extension of the Global Translations newsletter. Each week we track major issues facing the globe.Political leaders across the world have said everybody, everywhere, should be able to get a Covid-19 vaccine when it becomes available. But across Africa, health officials are growing increasingly concerned they won’t be able to afford the potentially life-saving therapies currently under development.
Pharmaceutical companies don’t want to be caught in the middle of the global rivalry, said Thomas Cueni, who leads the Geneva-based International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations. “Realistically, for everybody to get a vaccine, we might need around 12 to 15 billion doses,” he said. That could be a problem, given that “the five or six biggest vaccine manufacturers produce, in total, less than half of this volume in a year.
Some of those could be produced in Africa, hopes John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an Addis Ababa-based agency of the African Union.
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