The announcement comes as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation opens its annual three-day Grand Challenges event.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are investing 40 million dollars to help several African manufacturers produce new messenger RNA vaccines.
“Whether it’s for local diseases in Africa like Rift Valley or for global diseases like TB, mRNA looks like a very promising approach,” Bill Gates told The Associated Press after visiting one of the facilities involved, the Institut Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal. Institut Pasteur, along with the South Africa-based company Biovac, will be using an mRNA research and manufacturing platform that was developed by Quantoom Biosciences in Belgium.
The mRNA vaccine technology came to the forefront with the production of Covid-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna. The messenger RNA approach starts with a snippet of genetic code-carrying instructions for making proteins. And by picking the right virus protein to target, the body turns into a mini vaccine factory.
The institute already has been producing yellow fever jabs since the 1930s and now hopes mRNA technology can be harnessed to produce vaccines for diseases endemic on the continent such as Lassa fever, Rift Valley fever and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever.
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