Cape Times (Digital)

Cape Times (Digital)

1 Issue, 2023-10-10

Gates’ vaccines gift

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will give $40 million (about R776m), including to a Belgian biotech company and two leading African vaccine manufacturers, in a bid to boost access to mRNA vaccines for protection against various diseases in Africa. Nivelles-based Quantoom Biosciences will get $20m to advance work on its mRNA manufacturing platform, while the Institut Pasteur de Dakar in Senegal and Biovac in South Africa will get $5m each to buy the technology. A further $10m is available for other vaccine manufacturers who want to use the platform. Vaccines using mRNA revolutionised the world’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, but access was inequitable. The World Health Organization launched its mRNA vaccine tech hub in Cape Town in April this year. One member, Afrigen Biologics, has already made Africa’s…
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