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South African con­sor­tium es­tab­lish­es mR­NA tech trans­fer hub to get vac­cines to a re­gion of­ten over­looked

The WHO and CO­V­AX on Mon­day an­nounced the sup­port of a South African con­sor­tium to es­tab­lish a Covid-19 mR­NA vac­cine tech­nol­o­gy trans­fer hub. Over the next few weeks, part­ners from Bio­vac, Afrigen Bi­o­log­ics and Vac­cines, the African CDC and a net­work of uni­ver­si­ties will ne­go­ti­ate de­tails with the South African gov­ern­ment to es­tab­lish ground rules.

A tech­nol­o­gy trans­fer hub will al­low man­u­fac­tur­ers to re­ceive train­ing in vac­cine tech­nol­o­gy and learn about the in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty of large drug­mak­ers. The news is key for the con­ti­nent, ad­vo­cates say, be­cause of its lack of wide­spread ac­cess to vac­cines.

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