Five ways to scale up the African vaccine manufacturing industry

Five ways to scale up the African vaccine manufacturing industry.

How can vaccine manufacturers in Africa expand their manufacturing capacity and capabilities? Deborah King, Vaccines Lead at Wellcome, highlights five key areas for support – including access to finance and training opportunities.

Africa is home to 1.4 billion people who require an estimated one billion vaccine doses for protection from vaccine-preventable diseases. Yet only 1% of those vaccines are produced on the continent.