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World Immunization Week (WIW), celebrated in the last week of April, aims to highlight the importance of vaccines and how they protect people of all ages against many diseases, giving

We celebrate the many women around the world contributing to #science and #innovationforeveryone 👩🏾‍🔬 📽️. https://lnkd.in/eHEtA2dM Ministère des Affaires étrangères français Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Biovac Afrigen Biologics (Pty) Ltd Africa Centres for Disease Control and

Thermo Fisher Scientific in partnership with Afrigen Biologics (Pty) Ltd and Labotec to drive mRNA vaccine development and supply in South Africa and beyond. View here #innovation #partnerships #AfricainSTEM  #southafrica #development #thermofisherscientific

In January, Cape Town-based biotechnology company Afrigen Biologics announced that it has successfully produced a lab-scale batch of a COVID-19 vaccine that is similar to that made by pharmaceutical company

Less than 20% of Africans are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. But vaccine inequity exists within Africa as well as between the continent and the rest of the world, with some

From the outset of the COVID-19 outbreak, MPP realised that equitable access to treatments would be essential in the fight against this global threat. MPP issued a statement on 5

A need for equity in access to COVID-19 vaccines – The mRNA vaccine Technology Transfer Hub was established in response of the flagrant inequities in access to COVID-19 vaccines in low- and

Unfounded rumours have been circulating that the mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub being established in South Africa with the support of the Government of South Africa, the African CDC, the

Petro Terblanche is the managing director of a Afrigen,a South African biotechnology company working with the WHO to produce an Covid-10 mRNA vaccine that is similar to the one produced

The World Health Organization this week announced it will establish its first-ever mRNA technology transfer hub in the city in an agreement with Afrigen Biologics & Vaccines and the Biovac