{"id":31226,"date":"2022-12-11T14:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T14:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/kagame-rallies-global-community-to-mobilise-2-2bn-to-eradicate-polio"},"modified":"2022-12-11T14:52:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T14:52:20","slug":"kagame-rallies-global-community-to-mobilise-2-2bn-to-eradicate-polio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/kagame-rallies-global-community-to-mobilise-2-2bn-to-eradicate-polio","title":{"rendered":"Kagame rallies global community to mobilise $2.2bn to eradicate polio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>President Paul Kagame has called for more efforts to mobilize another $2.2 billion that is left to raise toward the global polio eradication initiative.<\/p>\n<p>He said this on Saturday, December 10 during the forum for immunization and polio eradication in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recent pledges of $2.6 billion toward the Global Polio Eradication Initiative rake us a big step closer, but there is still another $2.2 billion left to raise,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>He said that financing is needed to eradicate all forms of polio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo years ago, Africa was declared free of wild polio. Despite this remarkable achievement, the Covid pandemic has disrupted routine immunizations, causing preventable childhood diseases to rise.<\/p>\n<p>With renewed commitments to the Addis Declaration on immunization, we can eradicate all remaining forms of polio, and get back on track with childhood vaccinations overall,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that building vaccine manufacturing capacity in Africa is essential for the continent\u2019s health security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough the African Union\u2019s partnership for African vaccine manufacturing, there has been good progress in several countries, including Senegal, Rwanda and, South Africa,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kagame noted that this has been achieved with the support of the European Union and other partners, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Gavi, UNICEF, and the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHealth is a right, and until everyone in Africa enjoys access to primary healthcare, including vaccination services, no one is safe. We have the resources and know-how. So let\u2019s work together, and renew our commitment to eradicate polio, once and for all,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have also established the African Medicines Agency, to ensure that pharmaceutical products made in Africa are safe and effective,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2022, President Paul Kagame led the ceremony to break ground for the construction of the BioNTech vaccine manufacturing plant in Rwanda that will promote scalable mRNA vaccine production in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The manufacturing plant for mRNA-based vaccines is being built in the Kigali Special Economic Zone located at Masoro-Munini, Gasabo District, in a section earmarked for biopharma manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>In partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, he disclosed that the plant will manufacture tuberculosis, HIV, and malaria vaccines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\">Rwanda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. President Paul Kagame has called for more efforts to mobilize another $2.2 billion that is left to raise toward the global polio eradication initiative. He said this on Saturday, December 10 during the forum for immunization and polio eradication in Africa. \u201cThe recent pledges of $2.6 billion toward the Global Polio Eradication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":31225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[760,763,758],"class_list":["post-31226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-rwanda","tag-rwanda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kagame rallies global community to mobilise $2.2bn to eradicate polio - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Paul Kagame has called for more efforts to mobilize another $2.2 billion that is left to raise toward the glob ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/kagame-rallies-global-community-to-mobilise-2-2bn-to-eradicate-polio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kagame rallies global community to mobilise $2.2bn to eradicate polio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Paul Kagame has called for more efforts to mobilize another $2.2 billion that is left to raise toward the glob ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/kagame-rallies-global-community-to-mobilise-2-2bn-to-eradicate-polio\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-11T14:30:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-12-11T14:52:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670756415.07.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"667\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/kagame-rallies-global-community-to-mobilise-2-2bn-to-eradicate-polio#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/kagame-rallies-global-community-to-mobilise-2-2bn-to-eradicate-polio\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kagame rallies global community to mobilise $2.2bn to eradicate polio\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-11T14:30:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-12-11T14:52:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/kagame-rallies-global-community-to-mobilise-2-2bn-to-eradicate-polio\"},\"wordCount\":376,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/kagame-rallies-global-community-to-mobilise-2-2bn-to-eradicate-polio#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/12\/postQueueImg_1670756415.07.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Rwanda\",\"Rwanda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/kagame-rallies-global-community-to-mobilise-2-2bn-to-eradicate-polio#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/kagame-rallies-global-community-to-mobilise-2-2bn-to-eradicate-polio\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/kagame-rallies-global-community-to-mobilise-2-2bn-to-eradicate-polio\",\"name\":\"Kagame rallies global community to mobilise $2.2bn to eradicate polio - 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