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While Biovac has expressed dismay at the decision, it is precisely this tension between price constraints and the drive to support more local production that countries, global vaccine procurement agencies and donors need to resolve if local vaccine and medicine manufacturing are to become a reality in regions like sub Saharan Africa, which are so lacking in this capacity today.

Unless governments and donor agencies are actually going to procure vaccines from regional manufacturers, the mRNA technology transfer will simply become lessons in science rather than a solution to structural manufacturing inequity.

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