Buying and Accessing Vaccines.
21 JUNE 2021 – Lenias Hwenda talks to Patrick Tippoo, the Excecutive Director African Vaccine Manufacturers Initiative (AVMI) to explore Africa´s plans for manufacturing vaccines in order to protect the health security of people on the continent. Patrick Tippoo, a veteran who has spent 30 years developing vaccines at Biovac in South Africa highlights the opportunity to establish a viable vaccine production industry on the African continent, the challenges in realizing this ambition and shares some concrete actions that need to be taken to address existing challenges.