Africa Forward Summit: African leaders agree at Nairobi meeting underwrite domestic manufacturing of drugs and vaccines
During a high-level meeting to discuss the newly launched Africa Initiative for Medical Access and Manufacturing (AIM2030), Kenyan President William Ruto said that Africa must overcome infrastructure and technical capacity bottlenecks to accelerate the implementation of the AIM2030.
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The engagement focused on the institute’s mandate to manufacture and commercialise safe, high-quality and effective human vaccines, alongside other critical health products and technologies essential to national health guarantees.
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Director of Human Capital Development at the African Union Development Agency, Symerre, emphasised that the three-day conference will ensure local manufacturing and intra-African trade in medical products become a reality.
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