EU to launch vac­cine de­vel­op­ment and man­u­fac­tur­ing part­ner­ship with Latin Amer­i­can and Caribbean coun­tries

While Eu­ro­pean com­pa­nies, in­clud­ing BioN­Tech, are fo­cused on in­creas­ing vac­cine ac­cess to African coun­tries by set­ting up vac­cine man­u­fac­tur­ing fa­cil­i­ties, the Eu­ro­pean Union is look­ing west­ward to Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean.

Speak­ing at a press con­fer­ence with Span­ish Prime Min­is­ter Pé­dro Sanchez, EU Com­mis­sion pres­i­dent Ur­su­la von der Leyen said that the EU is launch­ing a new ini­tia­tive for vac­cines and med­i­cines man­u­fac­tur­ing in Latin Amer­i­ca, to get drugs to Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean faster.

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