A Step Toward Africa’s First Covid-19 Vaccine of Its Own

Akshaya Kumar is the crisis advocacy director at Human Rights Watch.

Afrigen, a South African 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

While most health care workers in the wealthy world were vaccinated early in 2021, only a quarter of Africa’s health workers had received their Covid-19 jabs at the end of last year. Credit: UNICEF/Nahom Tesfaye

NEW YORK, Feb 16 2022 (IPS) – Efforts to combat the vast global in access to Covid-19 vaccines just got a boost.…