COVID-19 vaccines: how to ensure Africa has access

COVID-19 vaccines: how to ensure Africa has access

Ensure Africa’s access to a COVID vaccine

Africa needs a coordinated strategy to develop, finance, manufacture and deliver vaccines across the continent, write four scientists from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Past scrambles for HIV and H5N1 influenza therapies have left Africa at the end of the queue, and history must not repeat itself, they argue. They recommend a strategy with three pillars: accelerate African involvement in vaccine development, ensure the continent can access a sufficient share of the global supply and remove barriers to widespread delivery and uptake.

Nature | 9 min read