NEW YORK, Feb 16 (IPS) – Akshaya Kumar is the crisis advocacy director at Human Rights Watch.Efforts to combat the vast global inequity in access to Covid-19 vaccines just got a boost. A Cape Town company claims it successfully made a vaccine that mimics Moderna’s messenger RNA vaccine—without any help from Moderna. This copycat will still need to undergo clinical trials, but the effort could yield Africa’s first Covid-19 vaccine.
Read the full story, “A Step Toward Africa’s First Covid-19 Vaccine of Its Own”, on globalissues.org →

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