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Africa’s first mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub gets to work
Africa currently has no vaccine technology hub, although there are six vaccine production facilities on the continent
Pfizer backs down over ‘unreasonable’ terms in South Africa vaccine deal
Government, according to Mkhize, is “relieved” as Pfizer eventually conceded and removed the “problematic term”
‘Held to ransom’: Pfizer demands governments gamble with state assets to secure vaccine deal
Pfizer is accused of bullying Latin American governments by demanding they grant indemnity against potential civil claims relating to the vaccine
Bill Gates, Big Pharma and entrenching the vaccine apartheid
Waiving intellectual property restrictions on Covid-19 vaccines could help the developing world. But India and South Africa’s pleas are falling on deaf ears
Lowdown on Pfizer’s Covid vaccine
The recent announcement of a promising Covid-19 vaccine is good news. But don’t get too excited, cautions Simon Allison: other more affluent countries have already bought up most…