WHO Steps Up Drive To Build Local Drug & Vaccine Production In Lower-Income Countries

The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the need for less well-resourced countries to improve access to medicines, vaccines, medical devices and other health products by building their own production capacities.

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As part of efforts to build up domestic manufacturing of medicines and vaccines in lower-income countries, the World Health Organization is setting up a new advisory group on local production and technology transfer and is looking for experts to sit on it.

“Strategic local production of medicines, vaccines and other health technologies in low- and middle-income countries has assumed huge significance” in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO said, noting, with not a little

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