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Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
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Laura Angela Bagnetto

Africa overcomes the odds to produce its own Covid vaccines

The Afrigen Biologics Vaccines laboratory in Cape Town, South Africa. © RFI/Laura-Angela Bagnetto

Set on redressing vaccine inequality between rich and poor nations, a South African consortium is taking on pharmaceutical giants in its quest to produce Africa's first homegrown mRNA Covid-19 vaccine and share it with the global south.

It was sheer determination that kept South African biotech company Afrigen Biologics Vaccines, a small fish in the world of big pharma, fighting to produce homegrown African vaccines against Covid-19.

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