An Evaluation of Local Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in Zimbabwe: How Prepared is Zimbabwe to Produce COVID-19 Vaccines?

Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact, given the rise in the demand for novel therapeutics such as vaccines that can be used in the treatment of COVID-19 patients. Compared to other regions of the world, gross vaccine inequity exists in Africa due to several factors tied to th...

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Autores principales: Okereke, Melody, Mashavakure, Hope Mufaro, Adesewa Abdulwasiu, Muhsinah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9598969/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36304687
http://dx.doi.org/10.24926/iip.v13i1.4656
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description Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact, given the rise in the demand for novel therapeutics such as vaccines that can be used in the treatment of COVID-19 patients. Compared to other regions of the world, gross vaccine inequity exists in Africa due to several factors tied to the acute lack of vaccines in the region. As a result, efforts are currently being made to ramp up the production of COVID-19 vaccines in the region. However, there are concerns that most countries in Africa lack the adequate pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity required to produce COVID-19 vaccines, and Zimbabwe is not an exception. This article, therefore, aims to evaluate the preparedness and readiness efforts of the Zimbabwean pharmaceutical industry in the production of COVID-19 vaccines.
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spelling pubmed-95989692022-10-26 An Evaluation of Local Pharmaceutical Manufacturing in Zimbabwe: How Prepared is Zimbabwe to Produce COVID-19 Vaccines? Okereke, Melody Mashavakure, Hope Mufaro Adesewa Abdulwasiu, Muhsinah Innov Pharm Commentary Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact, given the rise in the demand for novel therapeutics such as vaccines that can be used in the treatment of COVID-19 patients. Compared to other regions of the world, gross vaccine inequity exists in Africa due to several factors tied to the acute lack of vaccines in the region. As a result, efforts are currently being made to ramp up the production of COVID-19 vaccines in the region. However, there are concerns that most countries in Africa lack the adequate pharmaceutical manufacturing capacity required to produce COVID-19 vaccines, and Zimbabwe is not an exception. This article, therefore, aims to evaluate the preparedness and readiness efforts of the Zimbabwean pharmaceutical industry in the production of COVID-19 vaccines. University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing 2022-04-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9598969/ /pubmed/36304687 http://dx.doi.org/10.24926/iip.v13i1.4656 Text en © Individual authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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