{"id":8934,"date":"2022-08-11T14:09:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T14:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/africa-cdc-hopeful-aspen-will-get-covid-vaccine-orders"},"modified":"2022-08-11T14:26:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T14:26:20","slug":"africa-cdc-hopeful-aspen-will-get-covid-vaccine-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\/all-news\/africa-cdc-hopeful-aspen-will-get-covid-vaccine-orders","title":{"rendered":"Africa CDC hopeful Aspen will get COVID vaccine orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span><b>Africa&#8217;s top public health body is hopeful South African pharmaceutical firm Aspen Pharmacare (APNJ.J) would get orders for its own brand COVID-19 vaccine.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said last month that it is in detailed discussions with buyers to generate demand for Aspen&#8217;s COVID-19 vaccine Aspenovax.<\/p>\n<p>Just one fifth of adults in Africa are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, but demand has fallen across the continent which already receives donated vaccines from Western countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are quite confident that we will be able to get some positive results out of the negotiations that are continuing,&#8221; Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, Acting Director of Africa CDC, told reporters on Thursday as reported by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Aspen currently produces vaccines for Johnson &amp; Johnson (JNJ.N) but it struck a deal in March to produce, price, and sell its own-brand version of the shot for African markets.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to reports, the pharmaceutical firm is yet to receive even a single order, the company told Reuters on Wednesday that its vaccine production lines, with a 450-million-dose annual production capacity, could soon be idled, or converted to produce anesthetics and other sterile products.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We as Africa CDC, the African Union, we do not want to see a situation where Aspen closes any of their manufacturing capacity to (produce) COVID-19 vaccines,&#8221; Ouma said, declining to give a timeline on possible orders for Aspen.<\/p>\n<p>Ouma said Africa CDC wants every manufacturing facility on the continent that is manufacturing any health product, particularly vaccines, to have buyers from and for the continent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/eritrea\">Eritrea<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Eritrea. Africa&#8217;s top public health body is hopeful South African pharmaceutical firm Aspen Pharmacare (APNJ.J) would get orders for its own brand COVID-19 vaccine. Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said last month that it is in detailed discussions with buyers to generate demand for Aspen&#8217;s COVID-19 vaccine Aspenovax. 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