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‘Turn crisis into opportunity,’ say African health leaders

African leaders urged the continent’s health community meeting in South Africa to turn the crisis into an opportunity, highlighting progress in vaccine manufacturing amid drastic job losses and aid cuts. South Africa’s Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Blade Nzimande, speaking at the 4th International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA 2025), hailed a new pan-African plan to boost regional manufacturing of vaccines and other drugs as a “truly historic development”. The Africa CDC-led Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plan — spearheaded by the African Union, Afreximbank, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, with a US$3.2 billion investment — aims to ensure that by 2040 at least...


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